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Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
EurekAlert | 22 May 2013
(University of Hawaii ? SOEST) Researchers from the University of Hawaii, Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 22 May 2013
Study of a right whale named Eg 3911 reveals how entanglement can cause a slow, invisible death

Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Marine Mammals | Research

Scientists Explore Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 21 May 2013
A new study, published online May 19 in the journal Nature Geoscience, looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Sea level influenced tropical climate during the last ice age
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
The Indo-Pacific warm pool was much dryer during the last ice age than today, because lower sea level exposed the Sunda Shelf. The large landmass, in place of the warm ocean, altered the atmospheric circulation, shifting convection further west into the Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Puffin nest cam: wildlife experts install cameras in burrows as census begins
Telegraph | 17 May 2013
A puffin census is under way on the Farne Islands to determine how many breeding pairs of the birds live at the main breeding site. Rangers are also installing cameras in the birds burrows to study the birds.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Puffin census examines impact of winter on breeding numbers - video
Guardian Unlimited | 17 May 2013
Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is embarking on an epic census of the puffin population.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Conservationists to count breeding birds after 'puffin wreck' winter
Guardian Unlimited | 17 May 2013
Nipped fingers and handfuls of guano will be the order of the day for wildlife rangers on the Farne Islands as they embark on an epic census on Friday to discover whether puffin numbers have plummeted after a year of extreme weather. The 10 National Trust rangers living on the islands must dangle their bare fingers down 60,000 puffin burrows in the next two months to determine whether breeding pairs have fallen after the worst puffin "wreck" for 66 years.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(University of Bristol) Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

Climate Change | Coral | Research

Microbes capture, store, and release nitrogen to feed reef-building coral
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(American Society for Microbiology) Microscopic algae that live within reef-forming corals scoop up available nitrogen, store the excess in crystal form, and slowly feed it to the coral as needed, according to a study published in mBio.

Coral | Research

Corals turn to algae for stored food when times get tough
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Researchers at EPFL present new evidence for the crucial role of algae in the survival of their coral hosts. Ultra-high resolution images reveal that the algae temporarily store nutrients as crystals, building up reserves for when supplies run low.

Coral | Research

James Cameron to be publicly honored with Scripps Nierenberg Prize
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.

Deep Sea | Diving | Research

A Book Blooms in the Lab
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 16 May 2013
When conditions of light and nutrients align in the surface waters of the ocean, tiny single-celled algae called phytoplankton respond with explosive growth and reproduction in a phenomenon known as a phytoplankton bloom.

Plankton | Research

Seabird bones reveal changes in open-ocean food chain
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(Michigan State University) Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels -- both ancient and modern -- show how drastically today's open seas fish menu has changed.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research | Seabirds

Using earthquake sensors to track endangered whales
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(University of Washington) Oceanographers analyzed more than 300,000 fin-whale calls recorded by seafloor seismometers and recreated more than 150 fin-whale paths off the Pacific Northwest coast.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals | Research

Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of bird bones
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(Smithsonian) The impact of industrial fishing on coastal ecosystems has been studied for many years. But how it affects food webs in the open ocean has not been very clear. So a team of Smithsonian and Michigan State University scientists and their colleagues looked to the ancient bones of seabirds for answers, revealing some of the dramatic changes that have happened within open-ocean food webs since the onset of industrial fishing.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research | Seabirds

Arctic expedition to study impact of climate change on plankton
Guardian Unlimited | 14 May 2013
The goal of the 25,000km Tara Oceans Polar Circle Expedition, with some 15 scientist on board, is to search for planktonic organisms, including viruses, bacteria, protists and metazoans, all vital resources that need to be studied in their own environment while there is still time.

Arctic Ocean | Climate Change | Plankton | Research

Groundbreaking video technology to improve stock surveys
World Fishing | 14 May 2013
A new method of using video data collection to improve groundfish and flat fish stock surveys has been developed, which is showing promise to improve accuracy by increasing spatial coverage and to allow the conducting of surveys without fish mortality.

Fish | Fisheries | Research

Little justification for MSY approach
World Fishing | 13 May 2013
Fishing to maximum sustainable yield (MSY), which is an integral part of the EUs revised Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), has little justification, according to Ian Boyd, Defras chief scientific adviser.

Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Marine Management | Research

Study highlights under-appreciated benefit of oyster restoration
EurekAlert | 10 May 2013
(Virginia Institute of Marine Science) A new study shows that healthy oyster reefs would help to buffer the increasing acidity of coastal waters.

Atlantic Ocean | Acidification | Research

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