Recently, some have suggested that the science behind environmental problems, particularly regarding climate change, might be better communicated to a lay audience using stories rather than fact-based narratives. They contend that the lay public gets most of its scientific information from the mass media, which rely on stories to heighten emotional arousal and engagement, and so would be more receptive to that format. Thus, communicating through emotional stories and their characters might more effectively motivate behavioral change.

I am an emeritus professor of marine and earth science. Over the last few years of teaching, I began to realize my students, even students who understood the concept intellectually, often didn’t appreciate the risk. Many of them suffered from techno-optimism—that technology, in particular geoengineering, will get us out of this mess.

So, I have written an eco-mystery with the hope of communicating science to my readers. I realize this is a strange peer-review request but I am asking you to read an advance copy of my novel and, if you think it has value, give it an honest review.  To get a copy, see link below.

https://booksirens.com/book/CTZL88X/HRFUGO4

I’m interested in oceanography but don’t have much experience in the field . Hoping to get some advice from actual oceanographers . Any certain skill sets that I need to learn or any sort of advice is appreciated.
Thank you.

Hello everyone! I am currently studying to get my bachelor’s in chemistry and I am interested in getting a Msc in oceanography. However I don’t think I will make it to this year’s deadline, so I am looking for certificates or seminars to take on this year that would be valued in a CV or just for the sake of knowledge. I am already planning to get a diving certificate this year but I am hoping for some more suggestions from people in the field.

Hello! I am the president of our school's first ever Marine Biology Club, and I'm kind of lacking inspiration for events and stuff to plan this year to help conservation efforts.

Because we're not located closer to the Texas gulf we don't have direct access to things like beaches, however I want to get us involved in something so we can have some genuine action going on.

I currently have down things like helping out with citizen science websites, or doing our own little battery drive or aluminum can drive, but I literally don't know how I'm going to help connect this to real world impact for our members...

I'd really appreciate any recommendations, websites, conservation people I can reach out to, perhaps professors we can chat with virtually (the school doesn't allow guest speakers), literally anything helps ty!!!

Hey everyone, i have a very generic question and any leads/experiences/opinions are welcome. Im a physicist with a master in oceanography and I have some experience in modelling for copernicus. Im thinking of relocating to the Netherlands because my partner is looking for phd’s there (so far Amsterdam and Delft but still looking). I was wondering how easy would it be for me to find a decent job there, in an oceanographic center or a company or academia. Thanks in advance ⭐

Hi guys. I'm an undergrad currently doing a degree in Geography. I really want to go into academia in the future, and I want to specialize in marine science/oceanography.

Tbh I did not really know about all the fields of geography I could go into back in school so I didn't take up many science courses, which is pretty much hindering my ability to take a masters degree in a course that I like, due to all the science prerequisites. But I've still found a bunch of courses that I want to do.

Anyways, as a Geography undergrad I've done a few courses on QGIS and developed some skills in it. But I want to break into oceanography/marine science applications in QGIS. What are some resources I can use to teach myself the same? Any advice? If anyone has specialised in GIS and oceanography I'd REALLY appreciate some general advice as well.

O autor do livro, Frederico Brandini, foi meu professor. Livro muito bom de verdade. O Brandini não é o melhor escritor do mundo, mas é um ótimo cientista, oceanógrafo. Um dos melhores do mundo na sua área.

Tenho muito orgulho de ter tido a oportunidade de aprender com ele.

Esse livro é popular, preço acessível. Não tem linguagem técnica rebuscada. Qualquer leigo e curioso vai gostar.

A todos que gostam do mar, fica minha recomendação.

hi all. A regular visitor (and childhood inhabitant) to the wadden isles all my life I never fully grasped the tide dynamics around it. There used to be tide tables only for one location on the island with rules of thumb like subtract x minutes for location y but that was all that was easily available. This year I (re)discovered the Apple Watch tides app which offers a few more locations on the island and i enjoy cross referencing my own observations to the apps data, finally really grasping wantide/tidal meeting point etc.

Today we have neap tide at the North sea according to the app. But the apps wadden sea side location shows a regular tide. How does this work? Or is the apps data wrong for this location (apparently it aggregates data from multiple not fully disclosed sources)?

Add: checked the tide for a waddensea harbour on the mainland ( for which I assume the data will be sound) and it also has no notable spring/neap pattern so I assume it is really the case that these are far less uitspoken in the waddensea compared to North sea but I’d love an explanation of why that is.

Please let me know if anyone has this in an ebook preferably PDF

Im [17] and unsure what to do with life.

I've always liked the ocean and was always facinated by it. I wanna do something in the marine field, and since i took Humanities for my 11th and 12th, i thought, sure archelogy sounds good. But now im unsure if thats the right path. I wanted to become a journalist but im scared it'll be taken up by AI.

Any Marine archaeologists with advice?

Is there a Mariana-like trench for Indian seas/oceans as well? How deep do the ocean floors go?

Hello all, I am going back to school this year to get my Bachelor's degree and I am seriously considering oceanography but I also have very little clue about what its actually like to be an oceanographer. Can those who are tell me what you love about it? What you dont like about it and would you choose something different if you could start over? Also, is this a job where you are gone a lot and have to be out at sea often?

Hi Reddit, hoping you can help explain a sea phenomenon I see every so often when the wind and seas are calm. It appears hopefully as shown in the photos where there's what looks like a long patch of water that's a different colour and texture to the surrounding water, looks a bit like an oil slick. Almost always appears in the exact same spot when visible.

I've googled and seen that langmuir circulation could be an explanation although don't really understand the concept. My thoughts were that there's something underwater changing how the water moves (unlikely as quite easy to see rocks in the water here) or currents that happen to be in the right direction. I've never really seen it as clear or regular as where I am now.

Photos show the area a few hours apart and then the next day with similar conditions but now gone.

Can any clever Redditors help?

Ever since the oil spill happened in the Gulf I have not gone there. I have had a recent interest in visiting the Gulf again, to see what it is like. I have some questions that I hope you'll be able to discuss.

What is the water quality like in say Alabama's coast or in the Gulf of Mexico in general today compared to before the spill occurred?

What happened to oil? I know they used chemical dispersants, which in fact increased my concerns. What happened to the chemical dispersants?

Have any of you gone swimming in the Gulf since the spill? What was it like? And was it different from before the spill.

Lately I’ve been thinking about something pretty basic. Not the usual “we need to get to Mars” talk, but this: if humans actually want to stick around for a long time, where should we be putting our real effort?
Look at the land. Almost nothing lasts there. A species that manages to stay dominant for even a few tens of millions of years is already rare. Climate shifts, ice ages, habitats getting broken up — the surface of the planet keeps resetting. A lot of the big animals just disappear.
The ocean is different. It’s been running more or less the same way for hundreds of millions of years. Coelacanths have been around for over 300 million years. Horseshoe crabs even longer. Things change very slowly in the deep sea. Temperature stays pretty steady, and the sheer volume of water buffers a lot of the swings. Plenty of creatures down there have quietly survived mass extinctions that wiped out almost everything on land.
We still barely know the deep ocean. New species keep turning up. Some of them look like they’ve been living the same way since before the dinosaurs. That kind of stability is hard to find anywhere else on Earth.
Space sounds exciting, but it’s completely untested. There’s no long-term ecological track record, no systems that have already survived for eons. Everything we build out there will be new and fragile. One serious failure and it could all be over. Land isn’t looking great for the long haul either — we’re already watching ecosystems unravel under the pressure we’re putting on them, and our ability to “manage” the planet is still mostly short-term and local.
If the goal is still being here in ten thousand or a hundred thousand years, you don’t put your main chips on environments that have never been proven. You put them on the one that has already survived everything the planet could throw at it.
That’s the ocean.
Not as an escape plan. As the environment we should actually learn from and eventually figure out how to live with — closed systems, energy cycles, ways of living that work with the water’s stability instead of constantly fighting the land’s instability.
People already make this kind of choice in their own lives. If you want to live longer, you don’t deliberately move to the place with the shortest average lifespan. You go where the conditions are better. Same logic applies to a species.
Land and space can be side projects. Fine. But if we’re serious about lasting, the main focus should be the system that has already passed the multi-hundred-million-year test. Everything else is still just theory. The ocean already ran the experiment.

Hi everyone!

I'm hoping someone here might have some suggestions.

I recently graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology with a focus on marine biology. During school, I also gained extensive editing and writing experience, including serving as a managing editor for student publications, interning with a minor publishing company, and publishing my own novel.

I've been searching for remote opportunities because they're the best fit for my current situation. I've looked through LinkedIn, Indeed, and many of the major job boards, but I've had a difficult time finding positions that seem legitimate or are still actively hiring.

I'm especially interested in roles like:

• Scientific or technical writing
• Journal or manuscript editing
• Research communications
• Environmental or conservation writing
• Marine biology support roles
• Science communication
• Content writing for environmental organizations

If anyone knows of companies, organizations, job boards, or even specific employers that regularly hire for remote positions in these fields, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Even if you don't have a specific job in mind, I'd love to hear where you've had the most success finding legitimate remote opportunities.

Thank you so much!

Commenters are claiming rip current- but there’s no surf action that typically causes a rip current.

Location is Aarhus.