Ocean Science Page

Ocean Science

~ or, as I call it for short ~ Oh! (sigh)

because I love it so much, I get overcome, like an enormous wave washing over me.

My Ocean News blog for kids, Bubble & Squeak!

This mural is a copy of a very famous wood cut by the Japanese artist Katushika Hokusai, showing a tsunami. I included this picture (the real picture, "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" from "Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji" in Across the Wide Ocean, the book that's coming out in spring 2007.

The Great Wave was a tsunami. I wrote about those in my book Small Worlds, which has a chapter on mapping the ocean.

I worked with ocean scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to write Arctic Investigations.

I was a 2007 WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellow. That means I visited WHOI for a week and learned about loads of amazing things scientists are working on there. For more about WHOI, click here.

I went to sea on the WHOI ship RV Atlantis and dove in a WHOI submarine, DSV Alvin, as part of the Extreme 2004 project. For the Official Extreme 2004 website, click here.

To read more about my experiences as part of the Extreme 2004 project, click here.

Now I'm working on a committee that will help people learn more about the Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Network, ORION.

The Maritime Aquarium, Norwalk, Connecticut: From 2006 to 2007 I worked as an educator at the aquarium, traveling from school to school teaching about ocean science. I loved it! This year (2008) the aquarium is offering a special Day with the Author, featuring me and my new book Across the Wide Ocean.

World Ocean Day Press Release