Climate Change Baby Sharks in Hot Water: How Water Deoxygenation is Negatively Impacting Smallspotted Catsharks Scientists investigate the impact of oxygen depleted water on baby sharks.
Climate Change Tropical fish moving to colder regions are affected by projected seasonal ocean temperature and acidification Can tropical and temperate fish coexist?
Climate Change Warming ocean temperatures may cause prawns to lose their nutritional values Prawns are full of nutrients, but they may become less nutritious as the water they grow in continues to warm...
Behavior Home is where the color is: Anemonefishes prefer unbleached sea anemones How do fish respond to bleached sea anemones?
Climate Change How climate change is warming up your dinner plate Climate change isn’t just about warming. How does climate change effect the delicate balance of nutrients in the ocean?
Climate Change Earthquakes: the oceanographers you didn’t know about The seismic waves released by submarine earthquakes have a lot of power to map temperature changes.
Climate Change Climate changed linked to Antarctic heatwaves Scientist show how record-breaking Antarctic warming exacerbated by climate change.
Climate Change It’s getting hot: are fish getting bigger? Australian estuaries are warming up because of climate change and this might be making its fish bigger.
Coastal Management How will climate change impact harmful algal blooms? A recent study investigates the link between meteorological conditions and harmful algal blooms.
Biological oceanography Ocean time series brings new, unexpected insights into ocean carbon export Analysis of a 30-year ocean time series reveals that carbon export to the deep ocean is maintained despite warming waters
Ecology Has eelgrass already adapted to warmer waters? A study of eelgrass adaptive capacity indicates that they may be resilient to rising ocean temperatures.
Biodiversity Will coral reef biodiversity persevere through climate change? New research from Hawaii indicates that there may be more hope for coral reefs than previously thought.
Microbiology Sea Ice Diversifies Antarctic Phytoplankton A new study finds that communities of phytoplankton become less diverse and export less carbon as sea ice melts.
Climate Change Disappearing Ocean Climates We know with climate change that the ocean is changing as well, but how much? Read on to find out!
Ecology The Death of an Ecosystem: Understanding the Collapse of Northern California’s Kelp Forests In 2014, kelp forest ecosystems in northern California essentially disappeared. The reasons for the loss are now clear to scientists,…
Biological oceanography Climate Change Microbes pull nitrogen out of air to feed the warming oceans Some ocean microbes can take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it to different forms that can be used…
Biodiversity Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Human impacts Restoration Seagrass Missing the (Kelp) Forest for the Trees: An Overlooked Factor in Blue Carbon Storage A recent study exposes an overlooked carbon sink in the form of kelp forests. According to scientists' estimates, a kelp…
Chemistry Dust may feed more life in a warmer ocean Just as our bodies need iron to stay healthy, ocean microbes also need iron to grow. Iron in the ocean…
Coral Coral Reefs Bounce Back in Turks and Caicos Islands Coral reefs are often referred to as the tropical rainforests of the sea and support diverse ocean life. But how…
Paleoceanography How much heat is stored in the oceans: Insights from ice cores Reviewing: Shackleton, S., et al. “Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial.” Nature geoscience 13.1 (2020): 77-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0498-0 Water…