Listen to a Podcast About Oceanography

Study the vast oceans that cover 71% of Earth — currents, deep-sea vents, thermohaline circulation, ocean chemistry, and the critical role oceans play in regulating climate.

The thermohaline circulation (often called the "global ocean conveyor belt") moves water through all the world's oceans in a cycle that takes approximately 1,000 years to complete, transporting heat equivalent to about 1 petawatt — roughly 100 times current global energy consumption. Hydrothermal vents, first discovered on the Galapagos Rift in 1977, support ecosystems powered entirely by chemosynthesis rather than sunlight, with tube worms, giant clams, and unique bacteria thriving in water heated to over 400 degrees Celsius. Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh made the deepest manned dive in history on January 23, 1960, reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep at 10,916 meters in the bathyscaphe Trieste — a depth not reached again by humans until James Cameron's 2012 solo dive.

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