Archaeology deep sea Human impacts Ocean Exploration The Rebirth of the “Mighty-I” Happy Halloween! This is the true, spooky tale of life, death, and rebirth beneath the waves. To end off OceanBites’…
En Espanol Feliz Día de las Brujas desde el Mundo Marino: ¡Las 5 Criaturas más horripilantes y espantosas del Océano! ¡Feliz Dia de Las Brujas! Espero que disfruten de esta edición especial de OceanBites En Español… ¡Las 5 Criaturas más…
Conservation Ecology Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Plastic Pollution Sea Turtles Let’s Ghost Fishing for Halloween! Ghost fishing is ghastly because it creates underwater graveyards for wildlife. The authors covered here wrote a new review of…
Physical oceanography technology Ghost ships, adorable flotsam, and measuring surface currents The ocean is teeming with floating objects. Some of them are creepy, rusted, abandoned boats. Others are cute little bath…
Behavior Biology Ecology Natural History Costume Age: some crabs are too young to start dressing up Well, it’s that time of year again where hoards of costumed kids roam the streets in search of candy. While…
Biology Marine Halloween: Creepiest Looking Critters In honor of our Marine Halloween theme, this month I’ll be presenting my picks for the creepiest looking marine critters,…
Pollution A Junkyard in the Belly of a Whale A candy wrapper, plastic bags, car parts, packing materials, and fishing gear… it sounds like a list of things you…
Aquaculture Fisheries Why do restaurants join sustainable seafood labelling programs? Why do some restaurants join sustainable seafood eco-labeling programs? A new study identifies some motivating factors that can help the…
Book Review Rachel Carson had the right idea: DDT persists in unexpected ways in dolphins Rachel Carson was right to focus her novel on the effects of DDT; DDT persists to this day in dolphins…
Biology Germ Stowaways: How Plastic Waste Has Become an Environment for Harmful Bacteria For over 100 years, plastic has been integrated into our everyday lives. It has been used to make life better…
Book Review Bon Voyage to Oceanbites Oceanbites has been an incredible experience. Today is my goodbye post and my thank you to the readers and Oceanbites…
Book Review The Antarctic Peninsula is cooling… for now Temperature records from the Antarctic Peninsula show that the region has been cooling since the end of the 20th century.…
En Espanol La larga y peligrosa migración de las Anguilas Europeas Translated by Sandra Schleier Original Post by ABRAHIM EL GAMAL Artículo: David Righton, Håkan Westerberg,2 Eric Feunteun, Finn Økland, Patrick…
Ecology Human impacts Noise Survey Oil rigs, the food trucks of the sea? We humans don't always take time to assess how we impact other environments; more often we survey before we enter…
Coastal Management Conservation Ecology The long and winding Eel migration A glimpse of the thousands' mile migration of the European eel shows it's anything but straightforward.
Sea-level Rise Tide records could have underestimated global sea level rise New analysis of 100 years of sea level measurements from tide gauges show that we might be underestimating the global…
Behavior Biology Climate Change Physiology Seahorses Don’t Like It Hot Scientists have been doing a lot of work recently trying to figure out how species are going to react to…
Biology Conservation Human impacts Big animals face big trouble in our oceans Many believe we are in the midst of another mass extinction both on land and in the ocean. What marine…
Book Review Climate Change Cyclones A Cluster of Typhoons: Intensification over the last three decades Tropical Cyclones in the western Pacific Ocean have been intensifying in recent decades, but different data sets and methodologies made…
Conservation Do algal blooms kill whales? Since 2005, southern right whale calves have been found dead in historic numbers off the Patagonian coast in Argentina. Scientists…