Coastal Management
How sea turtles with backpacks can help establish highways for ocean health
It is a big scary world out there if you are a migrating ocean animal. However, data-generating backpacks worn by…
Climate Change
Global Warming Hiatus? Blame the Atlantic!
From the early 1990s on, the Earth has been experiencing a global warming hiatus, where the post-industrial warming trend has…
Fisheries
Impostor! How mislabeled seafood affects the amount of mercury you ingest
Seafood mislabeling is a big problem for both consumers and fisheries management. Using genetic data and mercury concentrations, scientists figured…
Biology Chemistry Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Pollution
The Hairy Truth: Using Grizzly Bear hair to study mercury levels
A large portion of the North American Grizzly Bear population call Western Canada home. The diet of these bears ranges…
Book Reviews Science Communication
Deep Blue Reads: The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert
As a novelist writing about oceanography, I spend a decent amount of time parsing scientific studies. Over the past several…
Biology Ecology
Supermom of the depths: octopus guards its eggs for the longest period ever observed
Scientists found an octopus that guards its eggs for the longest period ever recorded. The super mother was filmed for…
Biology Book Review Chemistry Coastal Management Hazards Human impacts Policy Pollution
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! We’ve Run Aground!!…Assessing the early impacts of the Costa Concordia wreck
A week ago, on July 23, 2014, the Costa Concordia was finally towed away from its wreck site near Giglio…
Ecology Fisheries Human impacts
Beware! Shellfish are taking over the fishing industry
Overfishing has created a cascading effect in the marine food web. Once, large apex predators, such as cod, dominated the…
Biogeochemistry
Take your iron! Seasonally melting snow as an iron supply to the Ross Sea, Antarctica
Observations show that the amount of primary productivity in the McMurdo Sound in the Ross Sea of Antarctica cannot be…
Biology Coastal Management Ecology
Home is Where the Lagoon is: how highly mobile manta rays rely on specific habitats
There is nothing like coming home after a long trip; you’re able to rest, refuel, and recharge your batteries. Mobile…
Biology Chemistry Pollution
Why Do Sea Turtles Get Tumors?
Large numbers of green sea turtles are growing tumors that impede their swimming, block their sight, and prevent them from…
Pollution
Seafood? Yes! Plastics? No!
Seafood is an important part of people’s diets worldwide, so it is crucial to understand the presence of microplastics in…
Climate Change Ecology Fisheries
Strengthening Winds and Upwelling in a Changing Climate
In 1990, Andrew Bakun hypothesized that warming temperatures and changes in sea-level pressure gradients would lead to warm season intensification…
Biology Climate Change Fisheries
Too much acid in the mahi: Ocean acidification and larval dolphinfish
How will increased atmospheric carbon dioxide affect your dinner? Larval dolphinfish (or, 'mahi mahi') are apparently very sensitive to increased…
Biology Climate Change Physiology
The Seventh Sense: Catfish Sense pH Changes
Some catfish aren't just limited to the traditional five senses - instead, they have a unique adaptation to sense pH…
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Human impacts
Fight of the Century: CO2 vs. Calcifying Phytoplankton
From the very first sentence of the abstract, these scientists make clear they are not messing around, "Ocean acidification is…
Biology Human impacts
Are whale sharks in trouble?
A recent study at the global scale suggests that there are two distinct populations of whale shark (Indo-Pacific and Atlantic…
Biogeochemistry Coastal Management
I plead the soil amendment – Improving the function of restored wetlands
Wetlands provide valuable services to humans every day, including flood protection, water purification, and shoreline stabilization to name a few.…
Book Review
The oldest seawater chemically analyzed
Water water everywhere, water water always there, but how it’s changed you may not know, read this story and Spear…
Biology Ecology
Hawksbill turtles are picky about their water temperature
Hawksbill turtles leave their place of birth and then head out into the world, but they always come back to…
