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Biology Climate Change Fisheries

How will climate change affect coastal fisheries production?

Forecasted impacts of climate changes on fisheries production in coastal ecosystems suggest modest changes on average with significant increases in…
June 11, 2014June 11, 2014 Lis Henderson
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…
June 9, 2014 Carrie McDonough
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.
June 4, 2014June 5, 2014 Cathleen Turner
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…
May 30, 2014May 30, 2014 Erin Markham
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…
May 28, 2014 Anne M. Hartwell
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…
May 27, 2014 Valeska Upham
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…
May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
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…
May 21, 2014 Sarah Fuller
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…
May 19, 2014May 19, 2014 Caoxin Sun
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…
May 16, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli
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…
May 15, 2014 Gordon Ober
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…
May 13, 2014 Zoe Ruge
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…
May 9, 2014May 9, 2014 Carrie McDonough
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…
May 7, 2014May 9, 2014 Cathleen Turner
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…
May 5, 2014May 5, 2014 Catarina Silva
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…
May 2, 2014May 2, 2014 Erin Markham
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…
April 30, 2014August 21, 2014 Anne M. Hartwell
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…
April 28, 2014 Valeska Upham
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…
April 24, 2014June 17, 2014 Kari St.Laurent
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…
April 23, 2014April 23, 2014 Gordon Ober

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