Early this week I was sent an encouraging update from a conservation group on the status in the Hawaiian Islands of the short-tailed albatross, a remarkable ocean-roaming bird that once numbered in the millions but, devastated by the feather trade and other impacts, nearly vanished early in the 20th century.
"The influx of people into the city was remarkable, like an ocean flooding in,'' she says when asked for her recollections of the day.
The remarkable thing for ocean scientists is that this boost to NOAA's satellite work has not cleaned out NOAA's "wet" work.
Even so, the ocean has remarkable power to dilute radioactive effluents, because of its sheer volume and depth.
It is remarkable how the Indian Ocean community can be so commonly affected even on opposite ends.
This is all the more disturbing because fish are resilient creatures and fish populations are capable of remarkable comebacks if the oceans can be managed as a sustainable global resource — not as a competing, overlapping grid of subsidized national fiefdoms.
SOUNDINGS: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor, by Hali Felt.
It shows the terrain of the ocean floor in remarkable detail, down to the contours of the Atlantic shelf as it rises toward dry land.
The special effects were as remarkable as advertised: on the ocean voyage the sail was rent as if by lightning as a deluge of water soaked the stage, and prophets and heretics alike were burned at the stake with flames that reached as high as 10 or 15 feet.
The brown-brick Chilehaus is shaped like an ocean liner, with remarkable curved walls meeting in the form of a ship's bow and staggered balconies that look like decks.
The New England Coral Canyon and Seamounts Area is composed of five undersea canyons off the southern New England coast and four nearby seamounts -- the only ones in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, which together support a remarkable richness and diversity of ocean life.
