Fisheries You look like your mom: parental effects in Atlantic salmon In honour of our Mother's Day theme week, we'll look at how the environment experienced by parents during reproduction and…
Biological oceanography Noise In the Heart of the Sea: Following the Song of Humpback Whales to Study Migration Every year, humpback whales journey across the ocean. Using passive acoustics to study whale song, scientists are able to follow…
Biology Ecology Fisheries Some Like it Hot: Ocean Heat Content and Fish Migrations Can a new way of looking at ocean temperatures help determine where fish like to hang out?
Biology Climate Change It’s getting warm, should I migrate now? Leatherback turtles are nesting later due to warming sea surface temperatures at their foraging grounds, raising questions on how climate…
Conservation Fisheries Human impacts technology Technology for Turtles: TurtleWatch Program to Protect Sea Turtles and Assist Fishermen A technology that both benefits fishermen and helps prevent sea turtle bycatch? Yes, please! The great news is that it…
Conservation Fisheries Policy Protecting Well-Traveled Fishes: A New Approach Fisheries managers have begun a shift from attempting to protect individual fish species to protecting entire ecosystems. Marine Protected Areas…
Book Review Climate Change Ecology Seagrass The Northward Expansion: Tropical Fish Settling the Temperate Seagrass Prairie How will northward shifting tropical species interact with the temperate habitats they encounter? An example from seagrass habitat in the…
Biology The turtle skylight: looks great and helps with time management. Leatherback turtles have a built-in skull skylight that registers light and helps tell them when to migrate.
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…
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…