Biology

Making Animals Comfortable In Their (Marine) Skin

The future of marine animal tracking could be a new flexible, stretchable, and ultra-lightweight technology called the "Marine Skin".

Biology Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Fisheries Policy

Getting your toes wet: Citizen science as a means for long-term monitoring

To understand ecosystem level changes, it is important to monitor an ecosystem over a long period of time. However, long-term…

Biodiversity Biology Coastal Management Conservation Coral Ecology Fisheries Human impacts Policy Trophic Ecology

Peace for Coral Reefs

As the world has learned over the past several months, a little solitude goes a long way towards a healthy…

Behavior Biological oceanography Biology Noise

Sounds, Stress, and Stingrays

Have you ever wondered if stingrays can hear noise? Sharks, skates, and rays have multiple sensory organs to help then…

Coastal Management Conservation Coral Ecology Fisheries Genetics Human impacts Trophic Ecology

Slowing a Thorny Invasion – Managing for COTS with DNA

Crown-of-Thorns Starfish are a natural scourge on coral reefs… or are they? The cycle of outbreaks is cruel, since it…

Biology

Slime, baby, slime!

Hagfish might look like disgusting little slime eels, but there is so much more to these jawless fishes. Read on…

Biology Ecology Evolution

Facing the music: calls from one of the worlds most endangered dolphins

The Study: Melo-Santos, G., Figueiredo Rodrigues, A.L., Tardin, R.H., de Sá Maciel, I., Marmontel, M., Da Silva, M.L., May-Collado, L.J.…

Biology Ecology Invasive Species

Increasing resilience, one cannibal at a time

When a species invades a new habitat they must learn to cope with previously unknown environmental stressors. Read on for…

Biology

How scientists use our nuclear past to understand whale shark life history

To properly conserve and manage species, scientists need to understand how they live, grow, and age. But even figuring that…

Coastal Management Genetics Human Health Microbiology

Tough bugs below the waves?

Just as humans can build up tolerances to things we’re exposed to, so can bacteria. Introduce antibiotics to an ecosystem…

Aquaculture Biochemistry Biology Coastal Management Conservation Human impacts Pollution Restoration Toxicology

Sargassum: An Overlooked Solution

Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, provides important ecosystem services in the Atlantic. However, this new study explores how sargassum…

Biodiversity Biological oceanography Biology Climate Change Conservation Coral ocean engineering ocean engineerings Ocean Exploration Survey technology

The HyperDiver: A New (Hyper-) Intelligent Way to Map the Ocean

German researchers have developed a new system–based on sophisticated imaging technology and artificial intelligence–which promises to revolutionize how we map…

Behavior Biology Climate Change Conservation

Changing Oceans May Confuse Critically Endangered European Eels

As humanity’s carbon emissions continue to heat and acidify the world’s oceans, many marine species and ecosystems face daunting new…

Biology

Follow the breadcrumbs: Sponges show how some animals clean up viruses

These days, hunkered down in our homes (if we are lucky) and washing our hands till they’re raw, it can…

Biogeochemistry Biological oceanography Biology Chemistry Climate Change Coastal Management deep sea Ecology engineerings Fisheries Glaciers Human impacts Methodology Modeling ocean engineering ocean engineerings Ocean Exploration Physical oceanography Sea Ice technology

Category: Biology

Making Animals Comfortable In Their (Marine) Skin

Getting your toes wet: Citizen science as a means for long-term monitoring

Peace for Coral Reefs

Sounds, Stress, and Stingrays

Slowing a Thorny Invasion – Managing for COTS with DNA

Slime, baby, slime!

Facing the music: calls from one of the worlds most endangered dolphins

Increasing resilience, one cannibal at a time

How scientists use our nuclear past to understand whale shark life history

Tough bugs below the waves?

Sargassum: An Overlooked Solution

The HyperDiver: A New (Hyper-) Intelligent Way to Map the Ocean

Changing Oceans May Confuse Critically Endangered European Eels

Follow the breadcrumbs: Sponges show how some animals clean up viruses

Deep Breathing Underwater

Blue Coral with a Not-So-Blue Future

An Ocean on Fire

Tagging the deepest diving mammal: the Cuvier’s beaked whale

The secret life of cheese: how dairy can support biofuel production

Think global, act local: how lake microbes respond to their environments