Fisheries Ocean to Table Mercury: a Rising Risk For fish eaters, mercury consumption is an ever-present worry but often pushed to the backs of our minds. But the…
Biological oceanography Climate Change Physical oceanography Turn Up The Heat, Turn Down the Productivity What happens if we do not curb carbon emissions? In a recent study, Moore and co-authors (2018) predict the implications of…
Behavior Bite or Flight: How Seaweed Can Shape Feeding Behavior in Fish What is a forest without trees or a coral reef without coral? Neither a forest nor a coral reef. Entire…
Behavior Biology The Efficiency of Nautili Imagine if you could function just as well at the top of Mt. Everest (where the air is super thin)…
Behavior Not Just Hanging Out: The Importance of Humpback Whale Mother Calf-Area Use in Hawaii Continue to celebrate Mother's Day before May ends by exploring the amazing bond between humpback whale mothers and their calves.…
Biological oceanography Ecology Harmful Algal Bloom Remote Sensing Cyanobacteria invasions… from space? They may not come from space, but they can be seen from up there! Learn how microscopic plants called cyanobacteria…
Fisheries Big Momma: bigger fish are better moms What makes a fish a good mom? Read here to see why scientists now think that big fish moms are…
Behavior Power by the numbers: tiny shrimp generate turbulence in the ocean Imagine hundreds of thousands of tiny shrimp swimming in the ocean. Believe it or not, the combined swimming action of…
Biological oceanography Arctic Lights We often think of the Arctic as a cold, dark place. But as sea ice continues to recede in the…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Ocean Acidification Gassing Earth Out of the Ice Age: the North Pacific Enhanced upwelling and CO2 degassing from the North Pacific during a warm climate event 14,000 years ago may have helped…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Physical oceanography Predicted Change to the Southern Ocean Silicate Front The Southern Ocean Silicate Front (SF) is an important boundary separating waters that are silicate-rich and waters that are silicate-poor.…
Climate Change Seaweed may be a winner in a warming world Have you ever thought about ocean critters that might benefit from climate change? Hernández et al. collected six species of…