Today's Anchorage Daily News has an interesting article on a proposal by the National Marine Fisheries Service to designate a significant portion of the Cook Inlet near Anchorage as a critical habitat for beluga whales. NOAA officials said the...

Our colleague, Prof. Bob Ballard, was featured on 60 Minutes Sunday evening. You can view the video here. A faculty member in the Graduate School of Oceanography, he also has a joint appointment in the Department of Ocean Engineering here at URI.

The Ocean SAMP project is continuing to study the potential for wind farm in the waters off Rhode Island. The Ocean SAMP is a strategy for zoning Rhode Island’s offshore waters using an ecosystem approach that involves scientific research and public...

An article from Reuters on the Cape Wind Project: A decision will be made by the end of 2009 on whether the go ahead will be given to the massive Cape Wind electricity project off the shore of Massachusetts, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on...

Bloomberg has an interesting article on oil exploration on Norway's Jan Mayen Island. Norway started a push to explore for oil and natural gas in more remote regions like its Arctic volcanic island of Jan Mayen, as the country seeks to reverse almost a...