In just under two hours, scientists sailing from Bermuda can be sampling the deep ocean, lowering instruments thousands of meters below the surface to collect water untouched by sunlight for centuries. For the ASU BIOS this remarkable access to the open ocean has underpinned decades of globally significant research

Multiple research vessels, including the ASU Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences' R/V Atlantic Explorer and the renowned R/V Atlantis, are operating in Bermudian waters in June 2026, supporting international efforts to better understand climate change, ocean health and the deep sea.

Susanne Neuer, founding director of the Arizona State University School of Ocean Futures, and her decades-long scientific connection with the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Beginning with her first research cruise to Bermuda in 1994, Neuer built lasting collaborations that shaped her career in ocean biogeochemistry. Now leading the School of Ocean Futures at Arizona State University, she continues to advance ocean time-series research and strengthen partnerships with ASU BIOS, providing students with opportunities to study and conduct research in the Sargasso Sea.

Built on decades of partnership, BATS continues to advance understanding of ocean change

Warmer, saltier, more acidic oceans threaten human, environmental health

The exhibit explores the exquisite beauty of plankton and its crucial role not only in ocean ecosystems, but in how ocean health is critical to our survival and elemental to all life on our planet.

Located southeast of Bermuda, Hydrostation ‘S’—a set of unmarked geographic coordinates (32 degrees 10 minutes North, 64 degrees 30 minutes West)—has yielded measurements of temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity and other parameters every two weeks for seven decades.

Typically associated with the study of Earth’s upper atmosphere and beyond, satellites deployed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) also augment our understanding of Earth’s ecosystems, including critical information about the ocean such as locations of algal blooms and levels of marine photosynthesis.

Oceans are constantly changing. These changes don’t only affect marine life but also have wide-reaching consequences for land dwellers. To document them, monitoring stations in the North Atlantic Ocean have been active for decades. Now, researchers have reported on the latest changes, showing that compared to 40 years ago, the ocean near the island of Bermuda is warmer, saltier, more acidic, and has lost oxygen. Long-term monitoring can provide information about existential challenges societies will face in the near future, the researchers said.

Arizona State University launched four new ocean-focused degree programs within the College of Global Futures — a Bachelor of Science in ocean futures, a Bachelor of Science in ocean futures with a concentration in coastal and marine sciences, an online Master of Science in coastal and marine science and management, and a PhD in ocean futures.