R/V Dawn has wrapped up another chapter of her 2026 Caribbean research mission, sailing from St. Martin/Sint Maarten across to the British Virgin Islands. Along the way, the crew collected water samples at every stop, watched the islands come alive with wildlife, and found a little time to enjoy the […]
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Today the Sustainable Seas Institute is proud to announce the public launch of GOCOS — the Global Ocean Contamination Open-Source Ecosystem — at gocos-app.vercel.app. GOCOS is an open-source web platform and data repository that puts peer-reviewed ocean contamination science directly in the hands of researchers, island communities, environmental agencies, and […]
Following our successful campaign in the Caribbean, the Sustainable Seas Institute is turning its gaze to the South Pacific. We are preparing for a new expedition to French Polynesia, expanding our scope beyond Tahiti to include Huahine, Bora Bora, Ra’iatea, and the remote atoll of Fakarava. This journey represents a […]
They say a sailor’s plans are written in the sand at low tide. For our latest Sustainable Seas expedition, those words rang especially true. From March 5th to March 14th, our crew was prepared to execute a rigorous research itinerary spanning the heart of the Leeward Islands. The plan was […]
What does it look like when a high school science class connects live with researchers working at the top of the world? On September 24, students in Craig Arkfeld’s Environmental Science class at Hough High School in Cornelius, North Carolina, found out firsthand. The Sustainable Seas Institute stopped by Hough […]