ocean

Knowing the ocean’s twists and turns

Conor Purcell April 12, 2017

The ocean’s currents . Credit: Canuckguy (talk) and many others (see File history) derivative work (distributed via Wikimedia Commons )

Navigating the ocean demands a knowledge of its movements. In the past, sailors have used this knowledge to their advantage, following the winds and the ocean currents to bring them on their way. Prior to mutiny in 1789, Captain Bligh – on the HMS Bounty – famously spent a month attempting to pass westward through the Drake Passage, around Patagonia’s Cape Horn. Here the westerly ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Investigating the transport of plastic pollution in the oceans

Laura Roberts-Artal September 23, 2016

Plastic pollution . Credit: bilyjan (distributed via Pixabay)

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. In this interview we speak to Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the Grantham Institute at Imperial Collage London, and winner of the 2016 OS Outstanding Young Scientist Award. As an expert in understanding how oceans transport all kinds of materials, from water and heat through to plastics, Erik has gained detai ...[Read More]

Last chance to enter the EGU Photo Contest 2016!

Laura Roberts-Artal February 25, 2016

A selection of the best photographs uploaded to imaggeo in 2015, as voted for by our Facebook followers.

If you are pre-registered for the 2016 General Assembly (Vienna, 17 -22 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! But hurry, there are only a few days left to enter! Every year we hold a photo competition and exhibit in association with our open access image repository, Imaggeo and our annual General Assembly. Th ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Sunset over the Labrador Sea

Laura Roberts-Artal June 29, 2015

Ruby skies and calm waters are the backdrop for this week’s Imaggeo image – one of the ten finalist images in this year’s EGU Photo contest. “I took the picture while on a scientific cruise in West Greenland in 2013,” explains Christof Pearce, a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University. “We spent most of the time inside the fjord systems around the Greenland capital, Nuuk, but this specific ...[Read More]