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In a strong display of putting theory into practice, McLaren Lowe went off the deep end. The design and technology teacher was making good on a promise to his students — that he would leap off the high dive if they won the annual Underwater Robotics ...

Scientists have drawn two conclusions when working to understand what attracts lionfish to island waters, Rotarians heard yesterday. Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, assistant scientist at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, has been studying the island’...

An anonymous donor has awarded the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences $6 million to support collaborative research on the distinctive microbial communities of the Sargasso Sea over the next five years. According to a press release from BIOS, the res...

A new study published by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences has linked global ocean processes with local coral reef chemistry. Data collected on reefs and offshore in Bermuda over a five-year period shows that coral reef chemistry — and perhaps...

The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences is undertaking new research on hurricane risk on the Island, in addition to its traditional focus on global catastrophic risk. The group’s Risk Prediction Initiative, which traditionally focuses on global catas...

Raising awareness of the threat lionfish pose to our endemic species will be the focus of the fifth annual Groundswell Lionfish Tournament next month. The event, due to take place on July 18 at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, will educate t...

Readers could be forgiven for wondering exactly what the ocean phenomenon was that raised Bermuda’s sea levels just in time for torrential rains. A warm-water eddy is not an uncommon visitor to local waters, according to Bill Curry, president and CEO...

A Bermuda-based oceanographer is being recognised for his decades of research. Dr Craig Carlson is part of the team at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) and a professor of microbial oceanography at the University of California Santa Bar...

If you want to see just how competitive teachers can be, divide a group of them into teams and ask them to build robots. Trash talk, pranks and cheers were the order of the day at a robotics workshop for teachers in the Bermuda Union of Teachers at B...

Dr Mark Guishard is to join the panellists at a roundtable discussion about lessons learnt from last month’s storms. The programme manager for the Risk Prediction Initiative at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences is a former director of the Bermuda W...

BIOS has an exciting new tool to help them gather vital data on the state of the ocean around us ­— a $190,000 aquatic robot. The robot comes in the form of a six ft long, 100lb glider that is battery operated. Dr Bill Curry, President and Director ...