A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...
An interdisciplinary research team aboard WHOI-operated research vessel Neil Armstrong collected the deepest sediment sample core from the Atlantic Ocean. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...
Marine scientist Matthew Costa is used to digging into research—literally. Over the course of his PhD program at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Costa frequently muddied his hands ...
They specifically looked at fossil pollen data sourced from 386 sediment cores records taken from lakes across North America. Sediment cores are samples taken from the bottom of a lake that preserve ...
Since the discovery 50 years ago of subglacial lakes in Antarctica—some of the least accessible geological features on Earth—scientists have attempted to extract lake bed sediment to learn about the ...