Biology Climate Change If You Must, Adjust? Polar Bears Leaving Sea Ice in the Arctic Everyone knows that polar bears have become the poster children for species threatened by climate change. And it’s for good…
Behavior Biology Climate Change Coral Fisheries Changing with the environment: how resilient are coral reef fish? Coral reef fish are some of the most sensitive animals to climate change. How will coral reef fish respond to…
Book Review Coastal Management Conservation Hazards Human impacts Methodology Modeling Plastic Pollution Remote Sensing technology To I.D. Debris: LIDAR as a tool to identify trash on the beach Scientists may have a new option for figuring out how much debris litters our beaches and what it all is!…
Human impacts Go Green for Earth Day! Do Mother Nature a solid with these helpful tips & tricks to go green today!
Biology Conference Oceanbites at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: Part II This year’s annual meeting for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology brought together over 2000 scientists to share their…
Physiology Trawling selects for faster fish A new study suggests that differences in exercise performance make some individuals more vulnerable to capture by trawling than others,…
Conservation Coral Human impacts Noise Small boats drowning out natural reef noise? Don’t you hate when noises interfere with your daily activities and conversations? We create lots of noise in the environment…
Biology Human impacts Making potable water safe for the seafloor SWRO desalinization is a great way to get potable water. Unfortunately its production results in a high salinity low nutrient…
Physiology Sound waves: dolphins in a noisy ocean As human influence in Earth’s oceans increases, so does the background noise. How might dolphins cope with changes in environmental…
Biochemistry Biology Book Review Chemistry Climate Change Carbon sinks: Diatoms in the deep sea Fast-sinking phytoplankton particles deliver carbon from the surface to the deep ocean. Are plankton cells still able to survive when…
Plastic Pollution Tiny plastic pieces accumulate in a huge marine filter-feeder Scientists find microplastic pieces in the intestines of a baleen whale for the first time.
Biogeochemistry Coastal Management Ecology Hazards Human impacts Pollution Out of sight, out of mind: The effect of gas & oil spills on deep-sea communities When undersea wells blowout, toxic concentrations of hydrocarbons can be rapidly released into the environment. The media presents these blowouts…
Conservation Ecology Fisheries Human impacts technology Are Fisheries Scientists Ringing the Dinner Bell for Marine Mammals? Acoustic telemetry is a valuable technique used by fisheries scientists to track fish movements. However, a new study suggests that…
Biology Book Review Coastal Management Conservation Coral Ecology Economy Fisheries Human impacts Policy Pollution The Great Barrier Reef is worth $15 billion – $20 billion AUS a year: A quick lesson in ecosystem economics When discussing the value of an ecosystem, tensions run high. Some people evaluate ecosystems with heavy emphasis on non-use values,…
Biology Book Review Chemistry Human impacts Catfish sharks on catnip? Nope, just ocean acidification Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found that ocean acidification may cause hyperactivity in catfish sharks.
Book Reviews Science Communication Deep Blue Reads: The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert As a novelist writing about oceanography, I spend a decent amount of time parsing scientific studies. Over the past several…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries Too much acid in the mahi: Ocean acidification and larval dolphinfish How will increased atmospheric carbon dioxide affect your dinner? Larval dolphinfish (or, 'mahi mahi') are apparently very sensitive to increased…
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Human impacts Fight of the Century: CO2 vs. Calcifying Phytoplankton From the very first sentence of the abstract, these scientists make clear they are not messing around, "Ocean acidification is…
Biology Ecology Human impacts The problem with data sets: Cuvier’s beaked whales vs. Navy acoustic testing Congratulations on the longest and deepest dive EVER! Please, ignore the regular acoustic testing…. The elusive Curvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius…
Biology Chemistry Baby Beluga is at Heightened Risk: Pollutant Accumulation in Arctic Predators Affects Gene Expression Analyzing changes in gene transcription is a way to detect adverse effects in organisms before they are observable on the…