Featured Connection: Biotechnology

Featured Connection: Biotechnology

Technology Comes Alive Biotechnology, simply put, is technology that utilizes the biological systems found in living organisms (or the living organisms themselves) to develop and make new commercial products. While cutting-edge developments in areas such as cloning...
How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

How Safe is Your Drinking Water?

A recent study found that the increasing frequency of droughts, heatwaves, storms, and floods is threatening the availability of water and its quality across the world. Researchers from Utrecht University in the Netherlands analyzed 965 cases of river water...
Summer 2024 Opportunities

Summer 2024 Opportunities

New internships, research programs, fellowships and acdemic programs are being added to the Ocean Connect Opportunities Database on a daily basis. Some of the recent additions include research programs in the following areas: Sustainability Environmental Science...
The Week in Climate Change News

The Week in Climate Change News

A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds. As frozen ground below the surface melts, exposed minerals such as iron are...
Featured Connection: Creative Writing

Featured Connection: Creative Writing

The Power of Words Creative writing has been around since the time we could first put a chisel to a stone tablet and carve out glyphs, wedges, and runes and people have been writing about the ocean for probably just as long. And why not? The ocean makes for both a...
Your Roadmap to Success

Your Roadmap to Success

Most of us don’t know what we want to study in college or do when we get out of school or even what our options might be. So to give you a better idea of what’s out there, we created profiles for dozens of ocean-related jobs and professions. Each profile is a roadmap...