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Category: Climate Change

Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Sea-level Rise

Nest Mess: rising seas change the environment of sea turtle nests, hindering hatching success

As a poster child for conservation, threats to sea turtles, such as fishing nets and coastal development, have been highly…
December 9, 2014June 11, 2020 Gordon Ober
Book Review Climate Change Geology Glaciers Remote Sensing Sea-level Rise

Glacial crevasses: how deep do they go? What does it mean?

The techniques applied here provide a much needed coastal view of the Greenland ice sheets. Work done in previous studies…
November 26, 2014November 26, 2014 Anne M. Hartwell
Biogeochemistry Biology Climate Change

Whale skin samples track changes in ocean biogeochemistry

Article: Ruiz-Cooley RI, Koch PL, Fiedler PC, McCarthy MD (2014) Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes from Top Predator Amino Acids Reveal…
November 25, 2014November 21, 2014 Irvin Huang
Biology Climate Change

The results are in: Ecosystems attune to natural temperature changes

Understanding both physics and biology is crucial in identifying the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. This meta-analysis on…
November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 Hillary Scannell
Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology Human impacts

Can a complex model hold the fate of the crown-of-thorns starfish?

Not all starfish are cute! The crown-of-thorns starfish has been eating all the coral on the Great Barrier Reef! Researchers…
November 21, 2014November 21, 2014 Valeska Upham
Biology Climate Change Ecology

Fatal attraction: Under climate change, fish swimming towards predators, not away from them

There are all kinds of ways that climate change can directly affect marine life – habitat loss, changes in the…
November 10, 2014November 10, 2014 Erin McLean
Climate Change Human impacts Sea-level Rise

On the Verge: Sea Level to Emerge

What is natural and what is human induced climate change? A controversial topic indeed, determining when a natural process has…
November 7, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Book Review Climate Change Ecology

Zooplankton versus Phytoplankton: a trophic seesaw

NASA satellites reveal artistic swirls of phytoplankton dancing across the ocean surface. This new study explains the dynamic predator-prey imbalances…
October 24, 2014February 9, 2015 Hillary Scannell
Climate Change Fisheries Genetics Human impacts

Same species, different genes: temperature tolerance and body size in the genes of the Chinook salmon

To understand how species may cope with climate change we must look into their genes. Do individuals have different levels…
October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 Catarina Silva
Climate Change Human impacts

Stressing out about water stress

It’s not just climate change that will affect global water stress! Model simulations predict that when both climate change and…
October 17, 2014November 18, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
Biology Climate Change Ecology

The seagrass isn’t always greener: how jellyfish and nutrients are impacting seagrass ecosystems

Warming oceans and acidic oceans. Nutrient and pollution overload. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Jellyfish blooms. Yes, you…
October 15, 2014 Gordon Ober
Biology Climate Change

Reconstructing Regional Climate and Oceanographic Processes From Tree Rings

Researchers are using centuries of tree growth data to understand variability in upwelling, productivity and marine ecosystem health in the…
October 6, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Climate Change

How is the tropical Pacific causing the Arctic to warm?

The Arctic is warming at an unprecedented rate. New research shows that 50% of regional Arctic warming is due to…
September 23, 2014September 23, 2014 Hillary Scannell
Climate Change Ecology Human impacts Ocean Acidification

Damselfish in distress: on ocean acidification and suicidal reef fish

Fish are rebelling. What's the cause?
August 29, 2014November 29, 2014 Abrahim El Gamal
Climate Change Hazards

Cyclones move poleward as tropics expand

Tropical cyclones are escaping the hot tropics and intensifying closer towards the poles. The apparent expansion of the tropics helps…
August 26, 2014August 26, 2014 Hillary Scannell
Biology Climate Change Ecology Human impacts Physiology Pollution

Keep it Down!: Eels Having Problems Avoiding Predators in Noisy Waters

We don't traditionally think of our ships making noise that will disrupt animal behavior, but this study, looking at eels…
August 22, 2014August 27, 2014 Erin McLean
Climate Change Human impacts Pollution

An accidental find: Large quantities of microplastics are in Arctic sea ice!

Multiyear sea ice formation in the Arctic Sea uptakes microplastics from seawater, effectively acting as a sink for these man-made…
August 21, 2014August 24, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
Climate Change

Global Warming Hiatus? Blame the Atlantic!

From the early 1990s on, the Earth has been experiencing a global warming hiatus, where the post-industrial warming trend has…
August 12, 2014August 12, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Climate Change Ecology Fisheries

Strengthening Winds and Upwelling in a Changing Climate

In 1990, Andrew Bakun hypothesized that warming temperatures and changes in sea-level pressure gradients would lead to warm season intensification…
July 16, 2014July 18, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Biology Climate Change Fisheries

Too much acid in the mahi: Ocean acidification and larval dolphinfish

How will increased atmospheric carbon dioxide affect your dinner? Larval dolphinfish (or, 'mahi mahi') are apparently very sensitive to increased…
July 14, 2014 Lis Henderson

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