(Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes interdisciplinary research and educational approaches to maintain the integrity of ocean ecosystems and manage their use in the ...

Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The 2022 Hunga Tonga event, for ...

MIT researchers found that the ocean microbe Prochlorococcus aids carbon cycling by releasing DNA components for other microbes.

A virus that infects ocean phytoplankton was found to encode a ribosomal protein, a first for eukaryotic viruses. Researchers ...

SA2, encodes one of the proteins needed to make ribosomes, the central engines in all cells that translate genetic information into proteins, the building blocks of life. This is the first eukaryotic ...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, 470 kilometers off the Oregon coast, a drama is unfolding. Axial Seamount, one of the ...

The Biden administration just approved a wind farm project off the coast of Massachusetts. It's the eleventh commercial-scale ...

Biological oceanographer John A. Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon in the Indian Ocean south-east of Madagascar. They analyzed satellite ...

Julie Thomy, lead author of the study and postdoctoral researcher in the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: ...