Sharkbites Saturday
Birds of a feather are eaten together: Young tiger sharks take a bite out of migrating songbirds
Drymon, J. M., K. Feldheim, A. M. V. Fournier, E. A. Seubert, A. E. Jefferson, A. M. Kroetz, and S.…
Biogeochemistry Physical oceanography
How important is carbon export by ocean eddies?
A recent paper uses an ocean model to investigate the relative importance of carbon sequestration by eddies transporting phytoplankton into…
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…
Biology
The Price of Motherhood: Deepwater Fish Regenerate Their Tails to Increase Reproductive Fitness
What happens if a fish gets its tail bitten off? It must survive the injury, but also decide what is…
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…
Plastic
Giant Clams vs. Small Plastics
Microplastics are found all throughout our oceans. But in the Red Sea, there are a lot less. Find out how…
Methodology
Could sponges replace expensive ocean tech?
The ocean is a big place and trying to study all of the animals living there can take a lot…
Climate Change
Telling the complicated story of Atlantic Salmon with the help of genetic technology
Plamu Salmo salar (or “Atlantic Salmon”, “Black Salmon”, or “Plamu” as it’s known in my neck of the woods)…
Coral
3D Printing Can Help Coral Environments, Here’s How.
In the face of mass bleaching and other anthropogenic stressors, researchers and scientists alike have been working on ways to…
Ecology
Happy clams eat varied diets: seasonal changes in food resources for coastal critters
Between land and sea, coastal ecosystems receive seasonal varieties of food sources that impact organisms at the bottom of the…
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…
Climate Change Human impacts
Tracking the transience of lake ice in a changing climate
Changes in seasonal lake ice are threatening the lives of those who depend on it. Find out how scientists are…
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…
Fisheries
Does ocean circulation provide prey for a top ocean predator?
Ocean circulation patterns are generally thought to move water from one area to another in the world’s oceans. One example…
deep sea Ecology Trophic Ecology
Feces as Food
Urchins and bacteria, working together to link pelagic and benthic ecosystems.
Sea Turtles
Are you jelly? Citizen scientists find jellyfish to help sea turtles
The largest leatherback ever recorded weighed 2,019 pounds, and yet this behemoth lives on a diet composed almost entirely of…
Developmental Biology Ecology
Sex Change 101: it Starts in the Brain
With human puberty seemingly beginning earlier and earlier, have you ever wondered what triggered sexual development? Dodd et al., studied…
Biogeochemistry Physical oceanography
Antarctic phytoplankton blooms linked to seafloor topography
A recent study uses observations from robotic floats to examine phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean. The data show that…
Neurobiology
Are dolphins losing their minds in blooming ocean waters?
Polluted water is a great source of food for harmful algal blooms, which release even more toxins into the water.…
Behavior
Same-Sex Squid Sex
Same-sex sexual behavior exists across a wide range of animals, but the behavior has long puzzled scientists because of the…