Building an Ocean Expedition

Building an Ocean Expedition What it Takes to Study the Oceans By Hugh Markey | Photographs by Jesse Burke When we think about scientific explorations of extreme regions like the Antarctic, we often picture researchers braving the elements aboard a high-tech...

A Lifetime Under the Waves

A Lifetime Under the Waves THE WORD “LAB” may suggest white coats, microscopes, and petri dishes. But for Jon Witman and the members of his lab at Brown University, the word has a completely different—and wetter—connotation. The group of 10 spends much of...

Endeavor | Fantastic Voyages Near End

Endeavor | Fantastic Voyages Near End IT HAS CRUISED THE WORLD’S OCEANS FOR 42 YEARS—more than a million nautical miles from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the Arctic to the Black Sea—and now is nearing retirement. But the R/V Endeavor is still...