Tied to the Tide: How Net Pen Culture Shapes Our Ocean Future
Breathing Life Back into the Ocean There’s something incredible about stepping onto a dock and watching the surface of the…
To sink or save? Thin-layer placement projects as a method of salt marsh restoration
Salt marshes are an incredibly important, though often overlooked part of marine and coastal ecosystems. They provide many ecosystem services,…
Leatherbacks: The Deepest Divers
What comes to mind for most people when they think of a sea turtle might be the hard shelled, tropical…
Whales: Memory, Communication, and Climate Change
Whales are giants of the ocean not just in size, but in their ecological roles and complex behaviors. They shape…
Hydrothermal Vents- Hostile to Us, Habitat to Many
Deep down beneath the ocean’s surface, where magma forms new seafloor, seawater temperatures reach over 700 degrees Fahrenheit. As this…
The Unique Features of Hypersaline Habitats
Deep beneath the surface, high salinity, anoxic underwater lakes harbor the remains of marine organisms that were not equipped to…
The OOOS and AHHHS of Ooids!
Most of the sand you have encountered at beaches is from the weathering, breaking down, or erosion of organic sources,…
Megalodon- It Just Got Bigger
Otodus megalodon breaching by Hugo Salais
Seaforestation: Restoring kelp forests to fight climate change
Since the late 19th century, the average surface temperature of the earth has risen by 2 degrees Fahrenheit, with the…
The Secret to Immortality Hidden in the Sea
Immortality is a concept that has been pondered upon for centuries. For humans that rarely live past 90, living forever…