2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (395+ words) LEWES, Del. - The University of Delaware in Lewes is doing a series of studies to improve hurricane forecasting. One of the methods is by tagging sharks. Scientists are tagging sharks to collect ocean data that could help forecasters better understand…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (386+ words) Somewhere beneath the Atlantic, a shark is doing the work of a weather buoy — gliding through the warm, deep water that quietly powers hurricanes. It carries a sensor. It goes where researchers rarely can. Forecasters have long known that what…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (570+ words) For the first time, a study has shown how juvenile great white sharks respond to hazardous weather conditions after a nursery was partially abandoned by the animals during Tropical Storm Hilary in 2023. And believe it or not, this study matters…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (477+ words) When Tropical Storm Hilary hit Southern California and Baja California in August 2023, humans braced for impact on land. But off the coast of California, juvenile great white sharks had their own response. Recently, scientists at the La Jolla-based UC San…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (596+ words) Sea turtles fitted with miniature sensors could help scientists fill critical gaps in ocean monitoring, improve estimates of tropical cyclone intensity and track the effects of climate change, according to research led by University of New South Wales Canberra oceanographer…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (630+ words) Every hurricane season, forecasters run into the same problem: warm water hiding beneath the ocean’s surface, invisible to satellites and beyond the reach of most monitoring equipment, yet capable of turning a manageable storm into a catastrophic one. Somewhere in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (817+ words) When Hurricane Isaac barreled over Louisiana in 2012, it pressed down on the Earth so hard that sensors built for earthquakes felt the By Kevin Montien · Editorial process When Hurricane Isaac barreled over Louisiana in 2012, it pressed down on the Earth…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (382+ words) TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) -- Scientists use a range of technology to study hurricanes, from satellites, to AI-powered models, to drones dropped out of Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the center of the storm. On this edition of Tracking the Tropics, our team…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (309+ words) When Tropical Storm Hilary hit Southern California in August 2023, the first of its kind to make direct landfall this century, most people were focused on the flooding. They weren’t paying attention to what the sharks were doing. As the storm…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (358+ words) abcnews.com Great white sharks could help predict hurricanes? As the great white shark population grows off the East coast, scientists are outfitting sharks with sensors to learn more about hurricanes. More flooding and storms from the Plains to the…...