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Biology Ecology

Turtle manure and eelgrass seeds make for an aquatic garden!

The accidental ingestion of eelgrass seeds by diamondback terrapins may help disperse eelgrass in Chesapeake Bay, demonstrating a new mutualistic…
November 18, 2014November 18, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
Book Reviews Science Communication

Deep Blue Reads: Blue Mind, by Wallace J. Nichols

Oceanographers, take note: you’re probably happier than the rest of us. That, at least, seems likely given the central thesis…
November 17, 2014November 18, 2014 Elizabeth Weinberg
Biology Ecology

The Community Conundrum: using models to challenge classic ecological theory

Science is not just about new discoveries and novel research questions; it’s often about challenging the past using new tools,…
November 14, 2014 Gordon Ober
Ecology Fisheries Human impacts

New housing options in unlikely places: Animals and oil platforms.

Real estate in the open ocean is a hot commodity. This research shows how enthusiastically fish and invertebrates take advantage…
November 13, 2014November 13, 2014 Sarah Giltz
Biology Book Review Coastal Management Conservation Coral Ecology Economy Fisheries Human impacts Policy Pollution

The Great Barrier Reef is worth $15 billion – $20 billion AUS a year: A quick lesson in ecosystem economics

When discussing the value of an ecosystem, tensions run high. Some people evaluate ecosystems with heavy emphasis on non-use values,…
November 12, 2014November 12, 2014 Sarah Fuller
Aquaculture Pollution

Passive Sampling for Antiparasitics near a Chile Salmon Farm

An increase in the number of positive cages and cage-level abundance of sea lice in southern Chile was shown since…
November 11, 2014 Caoxin Sun
Biology Climate Change Ecology

Fatal attraction: Under climate change, fish swimming towards predators, not away from them

There are all kinds of ways that climate change can directly affect marine life – habitat loss, changes in the…
November 10, 2014November 10, 2014 Erin McLean
Biology Ecology

The Antarctic minke whale foraging strategy

Filter feeding whales face a body size and feeding strategy trade-off in foraging efficiency. Researchers from the Marine Mammal Institute…
November 7, 2014November 7, 2014 Lis Henderson
Climate Change Human impacts Sea-level Rise

On the Verge: Sea Level to Emerge

What is natural and what is human induced climate change? A controversial topic indeed, determining when a natural process has…
November 7, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
Book Review Conservation Coral Ecology Fisheries

One, two, skip which few? Biodiversity doesn’t always mean ecosystem stability

Promised benefits from tropical biodiversity may not be as strong as previously thought when it comes to buffering reef ecosystems…
November 5, 2014November 5, 2014 Abrahim El Gamal
Ecology

Manta ray movement and motivations

Everyone loves manta rays, but how much do we actually know about their basic ecology?
October 31, 2014 Virginia Schutte
Biology Conservation Ecology

Sea Turtles, Sea Grasses, and Sharks

What began as an innocent initiative to save the sea turtles may be having a detrimental impact on sea grasses…
October 27, 2014October 27, 2014 Anne M. Hartwell
Book Review Climate Change Ecology

Zooplankton versus Phytoplankton: a trophic seesaw

NASA satellites reveal artistic swirls of phytoplankton dancing across the ocean surface. This new study explains the dynamic predator-prey imbalances…
October 24, 2014February 9, 2015 Hillary Scannell
Ecology

The Language of Fishes

Coral reefs are composed of hundreds of different species, who all use different acoustics to communicate, just like we use…
October 23, 2014October 23, 2014 Valeska Upham
Biology Book Review

Herds of sea monkeys help scientists understand the role of diel vertical migration in ocean mixing

Article: Monica M. Wilhelmus and John O. Dabiri. Observations of large-scale fluid transport by laser-guided plankton aggregations. Physics of Fluids, September 30,…
October 22, 2014October 22, 2014 Irvin Huang
Climate Change Fisheries Genetics Human impacts

Same species, different genes: temperature tolerance and body size in the genes of the Chinook salmon

To understand how species may cope with climate change we must look into their genes. Do individuals have different levels…
October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 Catarina Silva
Coral Ecology

Get crabby! A coral’s guide to self-defense

Crabs in the genus Trapezia are not only good housekeepers, clearing sediment off host corals, but they are also effective…
October 20, 2014October 22, 2014 Megan Chen
Climate Change Human impacts

Stressing out about water stress

It’s not just climate change that will affect global water stress! Model simulations predict that when both climate change and…
October 17, 2014November 18, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
Book Reviews Coral Science Communication

Deep Blue Reads: The Reef: A Passionate History, by Iain McCalman

It’s often easy to think of science outside of its social and historical contexts, as something pure, empirical, and incorruptible.…
October 16, 2014October 19, 2014 Elizabeth Weinberg
Biology Climate Change Ecology

The seagrass isn’t always greener: how jellyfish and nutrients are impacting seagrass ecosystems

Warming oceans and acidic oceans. Nutrient and pollution overload. Melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Jellyfish blooms. Yes, you…
October 15, 2014 Gordon Ober

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