Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Conference Coral Ecology Paleoceanography Best of Benthics The Top 5: Highlights and notes from an eventful Benthic Ecology Meeting!
Climate Change Paleoceanography Just How Permanent was El Niño in the Past? New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…
Biology Climate Change Paleoceanography Ironing Out the Details of the Last Ice Age "Give me a half tanker of iron and I will give you an ice age!", as was once said by…
Paleoceanography Rapid Reductions in North Atlantic Deep Water during the Peak of the Last Interglacial Period North Atlantic deep water forms primarily in more extreme northern latitudes due to the colder, saltier water with a higher…
Biology Climate Change Ecology Geology Paleoceanography Hello Glaciers, Goodbye Winds! With the intensification of glaciation in the northern hemisphere approximately 2.7 million years ago, the prominent westerly wind belts responded…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography We didn’t start the fire!… that changed the southeast Australian landscape 44 thousand years ago A sediment core suggests that the large ecosystem changes that occurred in southeastern Australia were caused by the extinction of…
Climate Change Geology Paleoceanography Reconstructing climate history from sediments in the Gulf of Taranto, Italy What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…
Biogeochemistry Climate Change Paleoceanography Why lions can thank wildfires for the African Savanna Sediment records show that wildfires caused the initial expansion of grasslands in Africa during the Miocene (8 million years ago)…
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Ecology Fisheries Geology Paleoceanography Policy Welcome to oceanbites! I’m excited to announce the launch of oceanbites.org! Inspired by the successful and informative astrobites.org, oceanbites is a blog where…