Geology Hazards
Double Whammy: A Second Source of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami
A powerful offshore earthquake was quickly identified as the source of the catastrophic 2011 Tohoku tsunami, which devastated portions of…
Category: Hazards
Cyclones Geology Hazards Volcanoes
A volcano, a tropical cyclone, and a computer model walked into a room…
Like with bad jokes, timing is everything. The punch line doesn’t make sense if you don’t know the back story,…
Chemistry Coastal Management Hazards Human impacts Policy Pollution
Are coastal waters receiving drugs? Are the rivers distributing them?
Pollution is not new news. It is common to hear discussion about air pollution and trash pollution, and more recently…
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…
Biology Chemistry Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Pollution
The Hairy Truth: Using Grizzly Bear hair to study mercury levels
A large portion of the North American Grizzly Bear population call Western Canada home. The diet of these bears ranges…
Biology Book Review Chemistry Coastal Management Hazards Human impacts Policy Pollution
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! We’ve Run Aground!!…Assessing the early impacts of the Costa Concordia wreck
A week ago, on July 23, 2014, the Costa Concordia was finally towed away from its wreck site near Giglio…
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Ecology Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Time for an oil change: How filter feeders avoid feeding on oil
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Here, a pair of researchers investigates the…
Biology Book Review Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Juvenile Pacific albacore party where the activity is hot: Studying the links between Fukushima-derived radionuclide distribution and fish migration
Radioactive particles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor entered the Pacific food chain in less than a month after the…
Biology Ecology Hazards
Talk about hay fever: toxic algal blooms may cause one doozy of an allergic reaction
Since the late 1990s, human respiratory symptoms have been associated with seasonal blooms of the dinoflagellate Ostropsis cf. ovata along…
Aquaculture Biology Chemistry Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Increasing fiber in your diet… microplastic fibers, that is
Microplastics constitute the large majority of plastic pollution in our global oceans. Microplastic fibers are small fibers that might not…