Climate Change
The Not So Stable Holocene
Here at Oceanbites, we hope you have been enjoying your stay in the Holocene Epoch, a span of time ranging…
Biology Parasitism Physiology
Deadly Dino’s
Copepods dominate the world’s oceans. They are important in the marine food web and help to regulate the global carbon…
Biology
Deep-sea Lights
Many different animals in the ocean produce light to communicate, especially in the darkness of the deep-sea. But how exactly…
Biology Conservation Ecology Evolution Invasive Species
Risking It All For Love: Courtship behavior by a reef fish makes it vulnerable to lionfish predation
Paper: Black, A.N., S.R. Weimann, V.E. Imhoff, M.L. Richter, and M. Itzkowitz. 2014. A differential prey response to invasive lionfish,…
Fisheries
Analyzing bycatch to better understand natural fish communities
Commercial shrimp trawlers haul in 3 to 15 times more of anything else than they do shrimp. Most of these…
Book Review
Smoked: how global warming might spell impending doom for Pacific salmon
Climate change is smoking salmon.
Climate Change Coastal Management Human impacts Modeling Sea-level Rise
Salty Rice: Tasty Treat, or Damaging Effect of Sea Level Rise?
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is subject to groundwater salt intrusions due to sea level rise, damaging vital crops. Agricultural…
Science Communication
Attention Grad Students: Apply to Attend ComSciCon15!
Applications are now open for the Communicating Science 2015 workshop, to be held in Cambridge, MA on June 18-20th, 2015!…
geochemistry ocean engineering technology
Happy Samples
How frustrating it must be to spend a bunch of money to get to the field, only to find out…
Conservation Ecology Fisheries Human impacts technology
Are Fisheries Scientists Ringing the Dinner Bell for Marine Mammals?
Acoustic telemetry is a valuable technique used by fisheries scientists to track fish movements. However, a new study suggests that…
Glaciers Sea-level Rise
We’re In Deep Heat: trouble boils over in West Antarctica
An international team of researchers shows that rising ocean temperatures along West Antarctic ice shelves are linked to rising warm…
Biology Book Reviews Science Communication
Deep Blue Reads: Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea, by Katherine Harmon Courage
I will be honest: I almost chucked this book clear across the room while reading it. It’s not that Katherine…
Biology Ecology
Watch out guys, pregnant whale sharks are on the loose!
Whale sharks have become an increasingly popular tourist attraction, but much of their life history remains largely unknown. This study…
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Pollution
Years later, Gulf of Mexico sediment chemistry still feeling the effects of Deepwater Horizon
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest accidental oil spill in US waters.…
Biology Climate Change
Anemones can do the ‘symbiont shuffle’ in the face of climate change
The bubble-tip anemone can harbour several types of algae or 'endosymbionts' simultaneously. This raises the question: are there advantages to…
Human impacts Pollution
Shine on…..or should we?
The consequences artificial light pollution has on marine ecosystems is unclear. This work compiles many of the known and expected…
Book Review Ecology
The Rumble in the Coral Jungle? How reef degradation is impacting damselfish competition
Two fish enter. One fish leaves…but, according to new research, that may no longer be the case in degraded habitats.
Ecology
Two Crabs and an Alga- a story of protection and evolution.
Tiny mud crabs try to escape big blue crab predators but without the help of evolution to guide shelter choices…
Biology Ecology Fisheries Human impacts
Bottom trawling changes bodies: the new seafloor diet
Seafloor trawling inevitably captures more than the species it is targeting. This means that when the remaining fishes line up…
Biogeochemistry Book Review
Methylated Mercury Cycling in the Canadian Arctic Marine Boundary Layer
Monomethylmercury (MMHg) is the most toxic form of mercury (Hg) to humans and wildlife. In the environment it concentrates (or…
