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Climate Change Ecology Seagrass

Kelps forced into hiding: Underwater forests troubled by warm oceans

Kelp forests are highly productive and diverse ecosystems found in cool coastal waters. A new study suggests that warmer waters…
October 10, 2015October 9, 2015 Derrick Alcott
Paleoceanography

Tiny shells tell the history of Antarctic ice

Over the past 10,000 years, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has gone through long periods of growth and long periods…
October 9, 2015October 9, 2015 Nicole Couto
Climate Change Physical oceanography Sea Ice

Sea Ice Plays a Key Role in Ocean Circulation

Lower amounts of sea ice in the North Atlantic disrupts the way heat is transferred, a key factor that changes…
October 8, 2015 Brian Caccioppoli
Climate Change Modeling Physical oceanography Science Communication

Oceanbites Mingles With ArcticMix (Part 1)

This is part 1 of 3 interview posts on the ArcticMix voyage. Scientists share their experiences with life aboard a…
October 6, 2015December 5, 2015 Megan Chen
Climate Change

Double Whammy: Losing sea ice may be worse than we thought

When Arctic sea ice melts, it warms the local region by decreasing the albedo, or lowering the area’s reflectiveness. This…
October 5, 2015March 24, 2016 Kari St.Laurent
Biology Climate Change Coastal Management Ecology Ocean Acidification

Diversity and its role in combating the effects of climate change

In the battle against climate change, ecosystems need to get down with diversity.
October 3, 2015October 4, 2015 Gordon Ober
Fisheries Human impacts

How important are claws to stone crabs?

The stone crab fishery does not remove the whole crab, only the claws. How do the clawless crabs fare when…
October 2, 2015 Sarah Giltz
Biology Ecology Human impacts Plastic Pollution Sea Turtles

The new fad diet for sea turtles? Plastics

Paper: Wedemeyer, K. R., George, S., James, H. B., Peterson, T. D., Wicksten, M. K. and Plotkin, P. T. (2015). High…
October 1, 2015September 30, 2015 Erin McLean
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…
September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Ashley Marranzino
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…
September 29, 2015 Sean Anderson
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…
September 28, 2015 Michael Philben
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…
September 25, 2015September 25, 2015 Rebecca Flynn
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…
September 24, 2015 Eric Orenstein
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…
September 23, 2015September 27, 2015 Virginia Schutte
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…
September 22, 2015September 22, 2015 Dina Navon
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…
September 21, 2015March 10, 2016 Zoe Gentes
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…
September 18, 2015October 15, 2015 Brittney G. Borowiec
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…
September 17, 2015September 27, 2015 Abrahim El Gamal
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…
September 16, 2015September 17, 2015 Anne M. Hartwell
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…
September 15, 2015September 15, 2015 Andrea Schlunk

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