April 10 (UPI) --The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using $2.7 million in federal funding to deploy a new data-gathering device that will improve measurements of ocean temperatures ...

Scientists from around the globe are gearing up for a research cruise off New Zealand, where they will examine the mysteries of the deep ocean using a suite of high-tech instruments. Scheduled May ...

Across the world’s oceans, a fleet of autonomous instruments known as Argo floats are drifting with the ocean currents. These floats are part of the Argo program, a network of profiling floats that ...

Sometimes, we get lucky in science. In this case, an oceanographic float we deployed to do one job ended up drifting away and doing something else entirely. Equipped with temperature and salinity ...