Ocean Sciences

Imaggeo on Mondays: Recreating monster waves in art and science

Olivia Trani July 8, 2019

Recreating a monster wave. Credit: Mark McAllister (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Featured in this blog post is a collection of images that gives a picture-perfect example of life imitating art. The photos in the left column are three consecutive still frames of a breaking wave that scientists generated in a lab environment at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. The pictures in the centre and right columns show the same wave images, but now superimposed with the famous 19th ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Preventing mercury leakage from a WWII submarine

Chloe Hill July 5, 2019

U-864 Submarine Wreckage. Credit: NGI - Norges Geotekniske Institutt (distributed via Youtube).

I recently had the opportunity to interview Matthias Kaiser, a professor at Bergen University and, at the time of the interview, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities. He is part of an expert team that has given scientific advice to Norwegian policymakers, highlighting the issues that should be considered when dealing with the U-864 submarine wreckage and its carg ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Indonesian mangroves and tsunamis

Olivia Trani May 13, 2019

A solitary mangrove tree in Flores. Credit: Joern Behrens (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Pictured here is a solitary mangrove tree, rooted off the northern coast of the Indonesian island Flores. While this tree has the shallow sandy reef to itself, mangroves are often found clumped together in large forests covering tropical and subtropical coastlines. The propped-up roots of mangrove trees often tangle together, creating a dense natural barrier that can weaken the coastal impact of o ...[Read More]

Back for the first time: measuring change at Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach

Eli Lazarus May 8, 2019

Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach in New South Wales, Australia, home to one of the longest-running shoreline-measurement programmes in the world! Credit: Eli Lazarus

Narrabeen–Collaroy Beach in New South Wales, Australia, just north of Sydney, is home to one of the longest-running shoreline-measurement programmes in the world. With colleagues at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Eli Lazarus, an associate professor in geomorphology at the University of Southampton, UK, has been analysing over 40 years of data from Narrabeen–Collaroy to better und ...[Read More]