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Category: Climate Change

Mixotrophy and the Microscopic Middlemen of the Ocean
Climate Change Ecology

Mixotrophy and the Microscopic Middlemen of the Ocean

As the ocean warms, its tiniest photosynthesizers are rewriting the rules of survival.
March 5, 2025 Josiah Grzywacz
Heatwaves in the Intertidal
Biodiversity Climate Change

Heatwaves in the Intertidal

How well will intertidal organisms withstand the rising tide of climate change and heatwaves?
February 17, 2025 Neeharika Verma
The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise
Climate Change

The Increasing Rates of Sea Level Rise

How and why the global ocean levels are increasing faster and faster every year.
November 25, 2024December 28, 2024 Jasper Meagher
From laundry to the deep sea
Climate Change Ecology Plastic

From laundry to the deep sea

The impact of microfiber plastics on marine snowfall
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Josiah Grzywacz
Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival
Climate Change Human impacts

Super Trees: The Importance of Mangrove Survival

How might climate change be impacting mangrove survival?
September 20, 2024September 22, 2024 Jordana Portman
Shrinking Fish in a Warming Ocean
Climate Change

Shrinking Fish in a Warming Ocean

Temperature, size, swimming, and how it's causing fish to shrink-- or not?
July 31, 2024October 24, 2024 Jasper Meagher
How heatwaves stress marine plants
Climate Change Modeling

How heatwaves stress marine plants

Humans aren't the only species that stress out about climate change.
June 13, 2024June 14, 2024 Julie Maurer
Where there’s a (Gray) whale, there’s an Orca
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.
December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 Neeharika Verma
Baby Sharks in Hot Water: How Water Deoxygenation is Negatively Impacting Smallspotted Catsharks
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.
July 31, 2023 Braden Furness
Tropical fish moving to colder regions are affected by projected seasonal ocean temperature and acidification
Climate Change

Tropical fish moving to colder regions are affected by projected seasonal ocean temperature and acidification

Can tropical and temperate fish coexist?
June 22, 2023June 21, 2023 Katherine Grellman
Warming ocean temperatures may cause prawns to lose their nutritional values
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...
June 2, 2023May 25, 2023 Jiwoon Park
Ocean warming doesn’t just turn up the heat: Low oxygen on global coral reefs
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…
April 20, 2023April 17, 2023 Hannah Collins
Climate change and the deep ocean
Climate Change

Climate change and the deep ocean

Melting polar ice sheets are heating the deep ocean and slowing ocean currents.
April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 Cory Berger
How do small animals impact Earth’s climate?
Climate Change

How do small animals impact Earth’s climate?

Vertical migrations of zooplankton transport millions of tons of carbon each year.
March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Cory Berger
Are Pacific Oysters ready for the heat?
Climate Change Ocean Acidification Oysters

Are Pacific Oysters ready for the heat?

How are adult and larval oysters sensitive to ocean acidification and warming?
January 19, 2023January 18, 2023 Hannah Collins
Larval thermal tolerance of a marine whelk is affected by marine heat wave temperatures
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?
December 23, 2022December 20, 2022 Hannah Collins
Some ~don’t~ like it hot: Ocean warming is bad for pelagic animals
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.
November 21, 2022November 16, 2022 Hannah Collins
How climate change is warming up your dinner plate
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?
August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Jaclyn Torkelson
It’s getting hotter out there…
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.
August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 Kayla Mladinich
Earthquakes: the oceanographers you didn’t know about
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.
July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 Mollie Passacantando

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