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People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a new study. To complete this study, the research team developed a new computer ...
Researchers have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, can disrupt natural processes that are keeping the ...
It crunches real-time data to predict dangerous situations and could transform how those in charge of Florida’s vast canal ...
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new theoretical model to predict the distances ocean waves can travel to break up sea ice. Monitoring of ocean wave propagation is important to ...
A new computer model developed by engineers at the Florida Atlantic University uses deep learning to count manatees in images captured by cameras. The model has been trained to identify manatees in ...
Little is known about the early life of sea turtle hatchlings but a modelling study shows the importance of ocean currents in ...
Older coastal cities, like Philadelphia, New York and Boston are at risk of being inundated by untreated sewage during floods. Due in part to the design of their combined sewer systems and in part due ...
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How Scale Model Ships Predict Real Ocean Giants

Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their full-sized counterparts will behave at sea. Freshwater is used to avoid ...