Biology Chemistry
Hired Mussels: Mussel Farming to Clean Up Excess Nutrients
Plants need nitrogen and phosphorous to grow, and humans need plants to survive. In our quest to produce more and…
Chemistry
The pH of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre has been dropping since 1981
Has the pH of our oceans decreased significantly? Lauvset and Gruber say yes, for the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre.
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Ecology Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Time for an oil change: How filter feeders avoid feeding on oil
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Here, a pair of researchers investigates the…
Biology Book Review Fisheries
Shark Date.
Carbon age dating of growth bands in white shark vertebrae reveal white sharks are older than originally thought and suggest…
Book Review Fisheries
It’s all about color for the rainbow wrasse
Male rainbow wrasses actively defend their territory and the amount of red light entering the water column has been found…
Biogeochemistry Geology
Volcanic ash, fertilizer for the ocean?
Volcanic ash may be an important source of the valuable micronutrients iron and manganese to phytoplankton populations in areas with…
Biology Ecology Fisheries
One fish, two fish, red fish… glow fish?
Biofluorescence of coral is well studied, but in this paper, Sparks et al. aimed to investigate the little known details…
Climate Change
Arctic Feels Hotter than Other Parts of the World
Speaking of climate change, you can easily picture a scene in which big ice sheets are melting and poor polar…
Climate Change Paleoceanography
Just How Permanent was El Niño in the Past?
New data refutes the hypothesis that permanent El Niño conditions existed in the tropical Pacific more than 3 million years…
Biology Ecology
The Role of Eels in Deep Sea Food Webs
Humans have made amazing strides in exploring and understanding the world, and even the universe, around us; but right off…
Biology Book Review Hazards Human impacts Pollution
Juvenile Pacific albacore party where the activity is hot: Studying the links between Fukushima-derived radionuclide distribution and fish migration
Radioactive particles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor entered the Pacific food chain in less than a month after the…
Human impacts Pollution
How Much Garbage is in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?
There’s been a lot of news floating around about “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”, the region of the Pacific Ocean…
Biology
3…2…1…Liftoff! Squid can launch out of water like rockets
Stories about squid “flying” over the ocean’s surface have existed for many years. In the summer of 2001 marine biologist…
Climate Change
Coral larvae will stay at their birth reef in warmer seas
New research suggests that global warming is leaving large coral reef systems less interconnected, which can affect their ability to…
Biogeochemistry Chemistry Pollution
On a mission to partition: the likelihood of flame retardants to bind to marine organic matter
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants found in the environment all over the globe, including the Arctic. Here, scientists…
Biology Book Review Ecology
Successful games of hide and seek are advantageous to Canadian Scientists
A polar bear’s appetite-satisfying success at the game hide-and-seek against ringed seal pups provided Canadian scientists with the opportunity to…
Ecology Fisheries
Tag you’re it! Reef manta rays are being tagged in the Red Sea
Reef manta rays are being tagged in order to better understand their diving profile. Understanding how long the manta rays…
Biogeochemistry
A sticky situation: Old black carbon and sinking particulate organic carbon
The attachment of aged dissolved black carbon to sinking particles may be an important process for transporting organic carbon to…
Biology Ecology Human impacts
One species’ trash is another species’ refuge: Investigating the biodiversity associated with floating plastic debris.
The poster child for human pollution of the ocean has to be floating plastic bottles and soda rings, right? Once…
Biology Ecology Human impacts
The problem with data sets: Cuvier’s beaked whales vs. Navy acoustic testing
Congratulations on the longest and deepest dive EVER! Please, ignore the regular acoustic testing…. The elusive Curvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius…