deep sea technology
Using Sound as Sight: acoustic technology finds hidden deep sea creatures
A new device allows researchers to visualize organisms while they are buried in the seafloor.
Undergraduate Research
SURFO SPECIAL: Understanding Cold-Water Corals
SURFO student, HuxleyAnn Huefner, describes her summer research on deep-water corals.
Undergraduate Research
SURFO SPECIAL: Robots and Velcro: How You’re $2,500 Away from Being an Oceanographer
SURFO student, Ashley Hutchins, describes her summer research on a cool remote controlled vehicle known as GeoFF.
Human impacts SURFO Special
SURFO SPECIAL: Stuck on you: A look into biofouling
SURFO student, Kate Silvester, describes her summer research on biofouling.
Climate Change
How climate change is warming up your dinner plate
Climate change isn’t just about warming. How does climate change effect the delicate balance of nutrients in the ocean?
Climate Change
It’s getting hotter out there…
The global ocean is experiencing heat on a more intensive scale than it has in the last 150 years.
Biology
Playing dress-up with crabs
Some crabs enjoy attaching material to their carapaces to decorate themselves – what are the mechanisms at play?
Microbiology
Larger than life- largest bacteria discovered in salt marsh
Scientists found the largest bacteria ever discovered, 50x larger than the previous record, in a tropical mangrove forest in Guadeloupe.
Biology
Spongebob used solar power before it was cool
Humans aren't the only animals who can harness solar power. These sponges supplement their diet with photosynthesis!
Biology
Some like it hot: environment and symbiosis influence coral heat tolerance
Why do some corals do better in warm water than others?
Harmful Algal Bloom SURFO Special
SURFO SPECIAL: How Toxic Phytoplankton Might Make You Regret Your Last Lobster Roll
SURFO student, Elisabeth Sellinger, describes her work with toxic algae.
Fisheries
Harnessing the Sting! The Biotechnical Uses of Jellyfish
Jellyfish are constantly caught, but hardly used. Jellyfish biology offers a host of exciting opportunities for humans to utilize!
Biology
A Conundrum of Global Marine Crustacean Diseases: Bitter Crab Disease
Stentiford GD, Shields JD. A review of the parasitic dinoflagellates Hematodinium species and Hematodinium-like infections in marine crustaceans. Dis Aquat…
deep sea
The Deep Sink: micropollutants in the deep sea
A recent literature survey highlights how even the deepest areas of the ocean are prone to the harmful effects of…
Climate Change
Earthquakes: the oceanographers you didn’t know about
The seismic waves released by submarine earthquakes have a lot of power to map temperature changes.
Pollution
Surgical masks flood the ocean: another wave of the pandemic
As covid-19 rages on the pandemic of surgical face masks in the ocean is just beginning. What will the effect…
Human impacts
Deep-Sea Mining: How impactful is it to sound in the ocean, really?
Rob Williams, Christine Erbe, Alec Duncan, Kimberly Nielsen, Travis Washburn, Craig Smith. Noise from deep-sea mining may span vast ocean areas. Science,…
Ecology
Seeing the sea to be able to eat
Eating with your eyes first is something seabirds also do – but climate change is making this more difficult.
Biodiversity
A who’s who of the parasites of Arctic zooplankton
Scientists learn about the diversity of parasites that infect some of the Ocean's smallest critters
Conservation Economy
Feeling the COVID-19 blues: The future of Grenada’s blue carbon ecosystems
This study highlights the projected environmental impacts of COVID-19 on Grenada's blue carbon ecosystems.
