Conservation

Hidden diversity in ships’ ballast tanks

Did you know that organisms can live in the ballast tanks of cargo ships? Ballast tanks are used by ships…

Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Human impacts

Power plays in low carbon pathways: how elite groups may influence a green transition

Learn how elite groups can guide and shape climate initiatives (spoiler alert: it's spoooooky) - and what we can do…

Conservation Fisheries Human impacts Sharkbites Saturday

Sharks vs. Fishing Vessels: The fatal overlap

Article Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries. Nuno Queiroz, Nicolas E. Humphries, et al. Nature…

Biological oceanography Biology Coastal Management Conservation Fisheries

SURFO SPECIAL: What’s it like to live in a dogfish eat dogfish world?

Brianna Villalon is a senior at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, studying marine biology and looking to gear her research toward…

Behavior Conservation Invasive Species

Robofish To The Rescue!

When mosquitofish were introduced all over the world to control mosquito populations nobody thought they would have such a negative…

Biodiversity Biological oceanography Climate Change Coastal Management Conservation Ecology engineerings Fisheries Human impacts Noise ocean engineering ocean engineerings Ocean Exploration

The Sound of (Fish) Music

The ocean contains a symphony of sounds. A new study describes a novel method for capturing the chorus "sung" by…

Conservation

From Animal Tracking to Conservation

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ride on the back of a whale? Scientists now use…

Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology Restoration

Can Coral Reefs Strangled By Algae Recover?

“Experimental support for alternative attractors on coral reefs”, Russell J. Schmitt, Sally J. Holbrook, Samantha L. Davis, Andrew J.Brooks, Thomas C. Adam, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar 2019, 116 (10) 4372-4381; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1812412116…

Coastal Management Conservation Science Communication

Lights, Camera, Action! Photography as a tool for observing environmental change

Observing long-term trends in the environment can be a daunting task. Here, scientists used settlement panels to observe community compositional…

Conservation

Great Salt Lake: a place migratory birds call home

Is Great Salt Lake America’s Dead Sea? Quite the contrary, as this inland sea is very much alive! Read on…

Conservation

Commercial fishing in Marine Protected Areas highlights the need for careful management

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) increase biodiversity and preserve ecosystem health when they are properly managed. But researchers have detected destructive…

Behavior Biological oceanography Biology Climate Change Conservation Ecology Sea Ice Trophic Ecology

Ecology of Fear: Current Implications of Orca Presence on Narwhal Behavior and Future Trends

The ecology of fear is a hypothesis that predators drive habitat use and behavior in prey species. In the Arctic,…

Behavior Biology Conservation deep sea Ecology Methodology Physiology Trophic Ecology

The Biological Big Bang: Testing the hypothesis that sperm whales use auditory bursts to stun prey and other proposed feeding strategies.

Article Fais, A., Johnson, M., Wilson, M., Soto, N. A., & Madsen, P. T. (2016). Sperm whale predator-prey interactions involve…

Conservation

Category: Conservation

Hidden diversity in ships’ ballast tanks

Power plays in low carbon pathways: how elite groups may influence a green transition

Sharks vs. Fishing Vessels: The fatal overlap

SURFO SPECIAL: What’s it like to live in a dogfish eat dogfish world?

Robofish To The Rescue!

The Sound of (Fish) Music

From Animal Tracking to Conservation

Can Coral Reefs Strangled By Algae Recover?

Lights, Camera, Action! Photography as a tool for observing environmental change

Great Salt Lake: a place migratory birds call home

Commercial fishing in Marine Protected Areas highlights the need for careful management

Ecology of Fear: Current Implications of Orca Presence on Narwhal Behavior and Future Trends

The Biological Big Bang: Testing the hypothesis that sperm whales use auditory bursts to stun prey and other proposed feeding strategies.

Reconnecting with Sharks

Who Governs the Ocean Around Antarctica?

Good Neighbors: Why we need to be careful with Piping Plovers, even when they aren’t breeding

Pteropods are Ptough: How one of the ocean’s most fragile creatures may cope with climate change

Plastics increase disease risks for corals

Baby come back: capture-induced premature birthing in elasmobranchs

How our Fear is Killing Sharks