Climate Change Ecology
Mixotrophy and the Microscopic Middlemen of the Ocean
As the ocean warms, its tiniest photosynthesizers are rewriting the rules of survival.
Category: Climate Change
Biodiversity Climate Change
Heatwaves in the Intertidal
How well will intertidal organisms withstand the rising tide of climate change and heatwaves?
Climate Change
The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise
How and why the global ocean levels are increasing faster and faster every year.
Climate Change Ecology Plastic
From laundry to the deep sea
The impact of microfiber plastics on marine snowfall
Climate Change Human impacts
Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival
How might climate change be impacting mangrove survival?
Climate Change
Shrinking Fish in a Warming Ocean
Temperature, size, swimming, and how it's causing fish to shrink-- or not?
Climate Change Modeling
How heatwaves stress marine plants
Humans aren't the only species that stress out about climate change.
Climate Change Ecology
Where there’s a (Gray) whale, there’s an Orca
Voracious Orcas are affecting the population dynamics of Gray whales migrating to their feeding grounds.
Climate Change
Baby Sharks in Hot Water: How Water Deoxygenation is Negatively Impacting Smallspotted Catsharks
Scientists investigate the impact of oxygen depleted water on baby sharks.
Climate Change
Tropical fish moving to colder regions are affected by projected seasonal ocean temperature and acidification
Can tropical and temperate fish coexist?
Climate Change
Warming ocean temperatures may cause prawns to lose their nutritional values
Prawns are full of nutrients, but they may become less nutritious as the water they grow in continues to warm...
Climate Change
Ocean warming doesn’t just turn up the heat: Low oxygen on global coral reefs
Warming can cause low oxygen, or hypoxia, in many habitats in the ocean. Under high future emission scenarios, hypoxia may…
Climate Change
Climate change and the deep ocean
Melting polar ice sheets are heating the deep ocean and slowing ocean currents.
Climate Change
How do small animals impact Earth’s climate?
Vertical migrations of zooplankton transport millions of tons of carbon each year.
Climate Change Ocean Acidification Oysters
Are Pacific Oysters ready for the heat?
How are adult and larval oysters sensitive to ocean acidification and warming?
Aquaculture Climate Change Developmental Biology
Larval thermal tolerance of a marine whelk is affected by marine heat wave temperatures
How do marine heat wave temperatures affect larval gastropods, and what does this mean for an emerging shellfishery?
Biological oceanography Climate Change
Some ~don’t~ like it hot: Ocean warming is bad for pelagic animals
Global ocean warming is predicted to have negative impacts on ocean animals living in the middle of the food web.
Climate Change
How climate change is warming up your dinner plate
Climate change isn’t just about warming. How does climate change effect the delicate balance of nutrients in the ocean?
Climate Change
It’s getting hotter out there…
The global ocean is experiencing heat on a more intensive scale than it has in the last 150 years.
Climate Change
Earthquakes: the oceanographers you didn’t know about
The seismic waves released by submarine earthquakes have a lot of power to map temperature changes.