This study integrates thermistor observations, hurricane glider measurements, and model-derived temperatures to examine the oceanic processes influencing Hurricane Laura’s rapid intensification, the role of the preexisting warm mixed layer at Stone Mooring (StM) in modulating cooling of the mixed layer, and the processes governing mixed layer heat evolution during and after storm. Prior to the storm’s passage, StM featured a 3...

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana (COESSING; https://coessing.org) has been run for one week every year since 2015. The school, an endorsed project of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030), has provided a platform for approximately 1,000 scientists from Africa, the United States, and Europe to exchange scientific knowledge, to network, to learn, and to...

Coastal ecosystems are highly dynamic areas for carbon cycling and are likely to be negatively impacted by increasing ocean acidification. This research focused on dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (TA) in the Mississippi Sound to understand the influence of local rivers on coastal acidification. This area receives large fluxes of freshwater from local rivers, in addition to episodic inputs from the Mississ...