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…
Biological oceanography A Balancing Act for the US Atlantic scallop: Ocean Acidification and Fishery Management Commercially important fisheries around the world are threatened by environmental changes. This post explores the effect of ocean acidification (OA)…
Conservation Commercial fishing in Marine Protected Areas highlights the need for careful management Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) increase biodiversity and preserve ecosystem health when they are properly managed. But researchers have detected destructive…
Behavior Biological oceanography Biology Climate Change Conservation Ecology Sea Ice Trophic Ecology Ecology of Fear: Current Implications of Orca Presence on Narwhal Behavior and Future Trends The ecology of fear is a hypothesis that predators drive habitat use and behavior in prey species. In the Arctic,…
Physiology Beneath the Waters: A Giant Discovery What lurks beneath the murky swamps and marshes in southern U.S.? A new giant salamander!
Biological oceanography Physical oceanography Remote Sensing Rugged Southern Ocean phytoplankton weather the storms Phytoplankton from the "wild west" of the world's oceans have learned to regrow after storms... over and over and over…
Sharkbites Saturday Tracking the Bay’s Rays: Cownose ray migration along the Atlantic coast If you’ve ever tickled the back of a stingray in an aquarium’s touch tank, you’ve likely introduced yourself to a…
Book Review Hijackers within the Sea: Catching a ride across an ocean Did you know that organisms attached to marine debris can unintentionally cross ocean basins? Read more to learn how the…
Ecology Hydrothermal vents spew out tasty morsels for local marine consumers Hydrothermal vents are not only cool structures where magma meets the sea; they offer a previously unappreciated food source for…
Biology Saving the Blue Bloods: Horseshoe Crab Edition We use horseshoe crab blood to test every FDA approved drug given to humans. Yet with horseshoe crab populations dropping…
Biological oceanography Small currents influence small creatures Phytoplankton, the tiny photosynthesizing organisms in the ocean, tend to just go with the flow. Even the smallest currents can…
Physical oceanography Reevaluating the Ocean Conveyer Belt A recent study suggests that surface processes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans may be more important to global ocean…