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A student helps deploy one of his school's adopted drifters for NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program.
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NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

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The currents of the North Pacific gyre collect trash—mostly bits of microscopic plastic—into what are known as "garbage patches."
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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A screenshot from the video "Women in Oceanography" showing a woman standing on a research vessel.
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Women in Oceanography

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A screenshot from video of a school of fish swimming.
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Bob the Drifter

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A yello rip current warning flag.
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Rip Current Science

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an older map shows ocean surface currents using arrows
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Surface Currents

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Pink dye was released by CARTHE researchers on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and its movement tracked using underwater sensors, two small drones, a helicopter and a kite.
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How Does Seawater Move?

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Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.
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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

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Hurricane Wind Pattern in Gulf of Mexico
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NOAA's Real Time Weather Mapping

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A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

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the loop current in the Gulf of Mexico
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Science in a Time of Crisis: Tracking the Currents

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a map of North America with the swirling tides
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Visualizing Currents

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