Behavior There and back again: Uncovering the mysteries of gray whale migration Gray whales undertake one of the longest migrations of any animal, swimming 12,000 miles round-trip between their northern feeding grounds…
Climate Change A Small Pool Makes a Big Splash Researchers find evidence that a small region in warm waters in the western Pacific could have played a big role…
Behavior Surprising fin whale songs in Hawaii After sifting through thousands of hours of recordings, a team of naval researchers is bringing the previously hidden complexities of…
Behavior Minke Boings: A 50-year mystery and the science of listening in the ocean Whale sounds are weird and fascinating, but for a long time scientists weren't even sure that whales made sounds. The…
Climate Change Pacific flushing leads to carbon dioxide surges While it might seem silly to care about what the ocean was doing 10,000 years ago, these old oceans impacted…
Climate Change A New Tool for Understanding Where Carbon Dioxide Goes We know that CO2 is being absorbed from the air by the ocean, but how can we measure how much…
Climate Change Is the Deep Ocean Warming Too? It’s been shown that the surface of the South Pacific Ocean has been warming by absorbing excess heat from the…
Behavior Book Review Coastal Management Conservation Coral Ecology Human impacts Small MPAs: the new all-you-can-eat buffets? Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a popular conservation tool and are in many situations very effective. Unfortunately, as with many…
Book Review Climate Change Ecology Species respond differently to climate shifts over time Large-scale climate variably is well-known to have impacts on marine ecosystems. However, the response of species over time is not…
Biogeochemistry A sticky situation: Old black carbon and sinking particulate organic carbon The attachment of aged dissolved black carbon to sinking particles may be an important process for transporting organic carbon to…