Climate Change Human impacts
Could increasing CO2 be decreasing human nutrition?
The increase in global atmospheric CO2 concentrations may be causing major food crops, like wheat, to have lower amounts of…
Biology Ecology Human impacts
Tethered Lunch: How conditioning native predators can help control invasive species.
It’s dark. It’s silent. A small ripple appears in a glass of water. The ripple starts to grow, becoming more…
Alternative Energy Chemistry Geology Remote Sensing technology
Need help counting bubbles? Now you can use sound!
Bubbles elicit scenes of childhood summers playing on the front stoop or backyard. On the other hand, put bubbles at…
Coastal Management Fisheries Policy
Ocean Ecosystem Stressors Influence Human Health
Healthy coastal and marine environments are of great importance to human beings. They provide many ecosystem services, which are water…
Climate Change Sea-level Rise
Tipping the Domino in East Antarctica
Researchers use modeling experiments to understand the conditions necessary for irreversible melting in East Antarctica, a region previously thought to…
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…
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…
