Climate Change

Coming in hot! Marine heatwaves impact sea turtle nesting on Diego Garcia Island

Marine heatwaves are not only affecting underwater ecosystems like coral reefs but also sandy beaches, important for sea turtle nesting.

Climate Change

Crabby about climate change

Scientists predict that climate change could have different implications for shallow and deep-water crustaceans. Read to find out more!

Climate Change

A plankTON of heat: How do copepods respond to temperature and warming oceans?

Is climate change causing problems for those tiny crustaceans?

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Disappearing Ocean Climates

We know with climate change that the ocean is changing as well, but how much? Read on to find out!

Climate Change

Turn down the heat: Climate change and plasticizers affect marine mussels differently depending on sex

How does climate change and plastic chemical additives affect marine organisms?

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Can seaweed save the planet?

Can a giant patch of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean save the planet from the effects of climate change?

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It’s getting hot in here: IPCC and the ocean

With unequivocal evidence that humans are warming the planet, what does the future hold for the ocean and for us?

Biogeochemistry Climate Change Coastal Management Modeling Physical oceanography Remote Sensing Seagrass

What do remote sensing, machine learning, and statistics have in common? Enhancing the accuracy of seagrass monitoring, for one.

Citation: Ha NT, Manley-Harris M, Pham TD, Hawes I. A Comparative Assessment of Ensemble-Based Machine Learning and Maximum Likelihood Methods…

Climate Change Coastal Management Human impacts

Lights out: How the aquatic food web is responding to coastal darkening in the North Sea

Have you ever been on a plane, flying over the coast, and noticed a stream of brown-colored water draining from…

Climate Change Sea Ice

Blue is the New Green: How Melting Sea Ice Might Save Us Billions

As Arctic sea ice melts, the ocean absorbs more carbon. Could this actually be a good thing? Researchers in Norway…

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Fishing or Farming: Can Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Coexist?

Last month, President Biden announced that the US will be turning to offshore wind farms (OWFs) to meet the growing…

Behavior Climate Change

Bearing teeth: How polar bear dental health can illustrate climate change

It is no secret that climate change is damaging Arctic ecosystems. Because of melting sea ice, Arctic species have had…

Biodiversity Biological oceanography Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Fisheries Invasive Species

The Circle of Life: Understanding Lionfish Life Cycles

We know who's the king of the jungle, but who's the king of the reef? Lionfish may look cool, but…

Biological oceanography Climate Change

Microbes pull nitrogen out of air to feed the warming oceans

Some ocean microbes can take nitrogen gas from the air and convert it to different forms that can be used…

Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Coral

Does coral size matter?

Nina Bean is a 2nd year master’s student at the California State University, Northridge in Dr. Peter Edmunds’ Polyp Lab.…

Biodiversity Biological oceanography Climate Change Ecology

The New Mollusk on the Block

Have you ever wondered about how marine animals travel to a new place, you know, when they can’t swim there?…

Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Ecology Fisheries Human impacts Modeling Natural History Sea Ice

Warming up to the neighborhood: a gentoo penguin’s new digs

With warming temperatures, scientists expect to see species popping up in environments where they’ve previously been absent. Climate change virtually…

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The Ocean Robot Revolution

This year marks the start of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science. To reach its ambitious targets, we require…

Biology Climate Change Harmful Algal Bloom Pollution

Oxygen Minimum Zones: Should we be worried?

Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean It is no…

Climate Change

Understanding the Demise and Recovery of Coral Reefs

In the last couple of decades we’ve learned a lot about the decline of coral reefs around the world. But…