Behavior Biology Book Review Evolution
Colorful adaptations: the use of fluorescence as a lure
When viewed under the right filter, the world can look like one big black light party. A large variety of…
Biology Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology Human impacts Pollution
Wake-up Call: Global Oceans in Big Trouble!
Our global oceans are in a state of crisis. A new report from the WWF paints a bleak picture: human…
Biogeochemistry
Microbes foil attempts to increase deep ocean carbon sequestration
Most carbon emitted to the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, much of it in organic molecules. While most is…
Behavior Ecology Sea Turtles
Sea Turtles are Social Too
Ever wonder how sea turtles spend most of their time beneath the waves? Or how they interact with other sea…
Biological oceanography Ecology
Eating Snow: How detritus gets broken down
Marine snow is a critical part of the ocean ecosystem. Much of this carbon rich matter ends up in the…
Ecology
Activity at one end of a migration affects fitness at the other
Effectively managing migratory species requires an understanding of what impacts them along their entire migratory route. This paper evaluates how…
Biology
Lobsters may dive deeper as climate changes
The American lobster is an iconic and economically significant species found all along the New England coast. Due to temperature…
Geology Paleoceanography Sea-level Rise
The Down, Up, and Down Again of Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay region is a densely populated area, and also experiences more rapid sea level rise than anywhere else…
Physiology
Sound waves: dolphins in a noisy ocean
As human influence in Earth’s oceans increases, so does the background noise. How might dolphins cope with changes in environmental…
Atmosphere science Biological oceanography Physical oceanography
Ice ice diatom: how microscopic algae govern ice formation in the clouds
Scientists think that particles exuded by single-cell plankton ejected into the atmosphere by sea-spray affect ice formation in clouds, and…
Biochemistry Biogeochemistry Biological oceanography Biology Climate Change Coral Ecology French Polynesia geochemistry Ocean Acidification
How a whole reef community’s response to OA is impacted by the individual responses of different players
Researchers from California used a unique ex situ experiment to monitor two near identical reef communities in different concentrations of…
Biology Climate Change Ocean Acidification
Decalcifying Calcidiscus: An effect of ocean acidification on plankton
The vastness of the ocean can be deceptive--you'd think that only big things would have an impact on something the…
Biology Fisheries Human impacts
Overfishing and climate variability interactions spell trouble for fast growing species
Rather intuitively, terrestrial ecosystems show that large, slow growing species are less adaptable in the face of environmental perturbations than…
Conservation Ecology Fisheries
Big Fishing on (Important) Little Fish
Forage fish may be little as individuals, but their big schools have a big impact on marine ecosystems. They serve…
Climate Change
The barrels of the sea; giant barrel sponges that is
Giant barrel sponges are understudied compared to many other marine organisms, but that doesn’t make them any less important. Climate…
Climate Change Coastal Management Geology Sea-level Rise
Retreat! Barrier Beaches Meet Their Demise Despite Modest Sea Level Rise
Future sea level rise poses many challenges for communities on barrier islands. However, sea level rise alone may not be…
Fisheries
Counterfeit fish: the extent of seafood mislabeling in the United States
Media coverage of a seafood mislabeling study in the U.S. has popularized the 2013 finding that one-third of U.S. seafood…
Coastal Management Economy Fisheries
Bait and Switch: are Maryland crabs the ingredient in your Maryland crab cake?
The non-profit organization Oceana went undercover to analyze the DNA in 90 crab cakes sold throughout Maryland and D.C. Their…
Biology Developmental Biology Ecology Evolution
The Sting of Sex: odd mating adaptations of box jellyfish
It might be hard for a box jellyfish to buy into the old adage “sex sells,” especially when their gonads…
Climate Change Fisheries
Tiny lobsters, big problems.
Larval lobsters face potentially dangerous situations, find out how they fare against a couple important environmental stressors (salinity and pH…