Texas A&M oceanographer Dan Thornton and atmospheric scientist Sarah Brooks took part in a program aimed at teaching the basics of planning research cruises, and gained valuable practice with research techniques.

Red tide research aims at prediction

Texas A&M oceanographer Lisa Campbell is studying harmful algal blooms, commonly known as red tide, off the Texas coast. The aim of this study is to better forecast blooms that can disrupt fishing and harm fish, birds, and people.

Mid-Atlantic Ridge microbiology expedition in progress

Heath Mills collecting a sample on the JOIDES Resolution drill floor

IODP Expedition 336, Mid-Atlantic Ridge Microbiology, is now in progress. Visit the expedition's research blog to follow the scientists and crew aboard the JOIDES Resolution as they sail from Barbados to the Azores to study deep-sea microbiology.

First Rayburn Texas Sea Grant scholarship awarded

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Oceanography Ph.D. student Jennifer Hertzberg has been named the first-ever recipient of the Ralph Rayburn Texas Sea Grant Scholarship.

Texas A&M receives $14.4 million to study Gulf oil spills

COLLEGE STATION, Aug. 31, 2011 -- Texas A&M University researchers in the College of Geosciences and the Dwight Look College of Engineering are the lead investigators in a $14.4 million project that will investigate the transport and eventual fate of petroleum fluids that have erupted at depth, such as those that resulted from the Deepwater Horizon spill last year.

Geosciences team receives award for its Gulf Coast work

A team led by oceanography researchers Dr. Ann Jochens and Dr. Matthew Howard will receive a Gulf Guardian Award form the Environmental Protection Agency for their project to integrate ocean and coastal data sets from all over the Gulf Coast region.

DiMarco finds large Gulf of Mexico dead zone

The first of three scheduled cruises, oceanographer Steve DiMarco and his team have found a growing dead zone expected to be the largest on record.

Oceanography grad student seeing the world one wave at a time

Oceanography Ph.D. student Julia O’Hern's studies have taken her all over the world on 14 research cruises with more on the horizon.

Texas A&M researchers to examine scope and scale of Gulf ‘dead zone’

Oceanographers Steve DiMarco and Thomas Bianchi will be measuring the size of this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, which is expected to be larger due to record flooding. (Read more)

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