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Book Review Climate Change Geology Glaciers Remote Sensing Sea-level Rise

Glacial crevasses: how deep do they go? What does it mean?

The techniques applied here provide a much needed coastal view of the Greenland ice sheets. Work done in previous studies…
November 26, 2014November 26, 2014 Anne M. Hartwell
Biogeochemistry Biology Climate Change

Whale skin samples track changes in ocean biogeochemistry

Article: Ruiz-Cooley RI, Koch PL, Fiedler PC, McCarthy MD (2014) Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes from Top Predator Amino Acids Reveal…
November 25, 2014November 21, 2014 Irvin Huang
Biology Climate Change

The results are in: Ecosystems attune to natural temperature changes

Understanding both physics and biology is crucial in identifying the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. This meta-analysis on…
November 24, 2014November 24, 2014 Hillary Scannell
Climate Change Conservation Coral Ecology Human impacts

Can a complex model hold the fate of the crown-of-thorns starfish?

Not all starfish are cute! The crown-of-thorns starfish has been eating all the coral on the Great Barrier Reef! Researchers…
November 21, 2014November 21, 2014 Valeska Upham
Ecology

Penguins can rock their bodies without eating high trophic level prey

Prey of a higher trophic level does not necessarily translate to a higher body mass in rockhopper penguins. Read more…
November 19, 2014November 19, 2014 Megan Chen
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

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