Biology Ecology Human impacts
Tethered Lunch: How conditioning native predators can help control invasive species.
It’s dark. It’s silent. A small ripple appears in a glass of water. The ripple starts to grow, becoming more…
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Biology Climate Change Fisheries
How will climate change affect coastal fisheries production?
Forecasted impacts of climate changes on fisheries production in coastal ecosystems suggest modest changes on average with significant increases in…
Biology Chemistry
Hired Mussels: Mussel Farming to Clean Up Excess Nutrients
Plants need nitrogen and phosphorous to grow, and humans need plants to survive. In our quest to produce more and…
Biology Book Review Fisheries
Shark Date.
Carbon age dating of growth bands in white shark vertebrae reveal white sharks are older than originally thought and suggest…
Biology Ecology Fisheries
One fish, two fish, red fish… glow fish?
Biofluorescence of coral is well studied, but in this paper, Sparks et al. aimed to investigate the little known details…
Biology Ecology
The Role of Eels in Deep Sea Food Webs
Humans have made amazing strides in exploring and understanding the world, and even the universe, around us; but right off…
Biology Book Review Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Juvenile Pacific albacore party where the activity is hot: Studying the links between Fukushima-derived radionuclide distribution and fish migration
Radioactive particles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor entered the Pacific food chain in less than a month after the…
Biology
3…2…1…Liftoff! Squid can launch out of water like rockets
Stories about squid “flying” over the ocean’s surface have existed for many years. In the summer of 2001 marine biologist…
Biology Book Review Ecology
Successful games of hide and seek are advantageous to Canadian Scientists
A polar bear’s appetite-satisfying success at the game hide-and-seek against ringed seal pups provided Canadian scientists with the opportunity to…
Biology Ecology Human impacts
One species’ trash is another species’ refuge: Investigating the biodiversity associated with floating plastic debris.
The poster child for human pollution of the ocean has to be floating plastic bottles and soda rings, right? Once…
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 Climate Change Paleoceanography
Ironing Out the Details of the Last Ice Age
"Give me a half tanker of iron and I will give you an ice age!", as was once said by…
Biology Ecology Hazards
Talk about hay fever: toxic algal blooms may cause one doozy of an allergic reaction
Since the late 1990s, human respiratory symptoms have been associated with seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate Ostropsis cf. ovata along…
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…
Aquaculture Biology Chemistry Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Increasing fiber in your diet… microplastic fibers, that is
Microplastics constitute the large majority of plastic pollution in our global oceans. Microplastic fibers are small fibers that might not…
Biology Climate Change
Hooded seals of the Greenland Sea
Hooded seals have been hunted for centuries in the North Atlantic. Despite increased regulation over the last three decades, a…
Atmospheric Chemistry Biology Chemistry Remote Sensing
A break-up in the relationship between organic carbon in sea spray and chlorophyll-a concentrations
The transfer of organic matter from the surface sea water to sea spray aerosols appears constant despite the concentration of…
Biology Ecology Fisheries Invasive Species
You Are What Your Fish Eats: how an invasive seaweed is contributing to the decline in nutritional value of commercial fish
Invasive species are known to be harmful to native species, biodiversity, and ecosystem function. But recent research has shown that…
Biology Climate Change Ecology Geology Paleoceanography
Hello Glaciers, Goodbye Winds!
With the intensification of glaciation in the northern hemisphere approximately 2.7 million years ago, the prominent westerly wind belts responded…
Biology
The far-reaching benefits of marine reserves
It can actually work! A recent multidisciplinary study combining genetics and modeling conducted in the marine protected area of Torre…