Fisheries
Listening in on fishing vessels
Detecting boat noise on offshore reefs may help manage a recovering fishery.
Fisheries
Shine bright like a gillnet
Fishing mostly depends on gillnets that catch many organisms besides fish, but we can change gillnets for the better…
Climate Change
Are crabs contributing to climate change?
Researchers find that fiddler crab burrowing releases greenhouse gases from salt marsh sediment.
Plastic Pollution
Life in plastic: Harmful bacteria and algae may hide in ocean plastic waste
Researchers from North Carolina investigate how many microbes can thrive inside a plastic bottle. Their findings may surprise you!
Ecology
Baby zooplankton are surprisingly common in the Arctic winter
It’s hard to grow up during the polar night—but a lot of zooplankton do it anyway!
Biological oceanography deep sea Genetics
How do symbiotic relationships with bacteria help snails adapt to the deep sea?
Deep-sea snails obtain bacterial symbionts from the surrounding environment, allowing them to survive in harsh environments
Biological oceanography
S’not your typical carbon capture
This mucus-making microbe deploys a snotty strategy for cycling carbon in the ocean. Reference: Larsson, M.E., Bramucci, A.R., Collins, S.…
Conservation
Good News for Green Turtles
Over 50 years of protection has led to extreme benefits for green turtle populations.
Aquaculture
Seaweed Saviour: How improvements in seaweed farming can provide solutions to global food security and climate change.
Using waste-water from food production can improve the output and sustainability of seaweed farms.
Climate Change
Tying Prehistoric Climate Change to Oceanic Methane
Scientists from Texas A&M use preserved microbial lipids to tie prehistoric climate change to widespread oceanic methane release.
Climate Change
How can remote sensing help estimate blue carbon in intertidal ecosystems?
Maria Laura Zoffoli, Pierre Gernez, Philippe Rosa, Anthony Le Bris, Vittorio E. Brando, Anne-Laure Barillé, Nicolas Harin, Steef Peters, Kathrin…
Biological oceanography
Ocean time series brings new, unexpected insights into ocean carbon export
Analysis of a 30-year ocean time series reveals that carbon export to the deep ocean is maintained despite warming waters
Behavior
Squid camouflage is awesome!
For the first time, scientists have spotted squids matching their body color to their environment
Behavior
Shark Soirée: Do great whites make social connections?
Many animals rely on social interactions with other members of their species for information…but do great white sharks?
Ocean Acidification
Double trouble: Coral reefs are threatened by ocean acidification and copper
Slow growth and sickness are in stock for coral reefs if we continue putting carbon dioxide into the ocean.
deep sea
Taking a long, hard look at a classic deep-sea theory
Diversity is lower where there is less food: a fundamental deep-sea ecology theory. Is this true everywhere in the deep…
Plastic Pollution
Searching for microplastics: Scientists find a ‘missing’ piece
Researchers at FAU collected microplastics at different depths in the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre. What they found will alter global…
Paleontology
Motion in the ocean: how did the earliest animals move?
Fossils over 500 million years old may give us insight into the evolutionary origin of animal movement. Reference: Wang, X.,…
Plastic Pollution
When microplastics go marshing in: A tale of two tidal marsh birds
As microplastic pollution continues to threaten coastal biodiversity, this study confirms its presence in tidal marsh birds.