Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic
• Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss
• Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – January 2022

This issue explores:

• The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change
• The Global fishing Index: Assessing the sustainability of the world’s marine fisheries
• Mapping global inputs and impacts from of human sewage in coastal ecosystems

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – November 2021

This issue explores:

• Warming events projected to become more frequent and last longer across Antarctica
• Marine high temperature extremes amplify the impacts of climate change on fish and fisheries
• Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – October 2021

This issue explores:

• The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean
• Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change
• Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – September 2021

This issue explores:

• Rapid increases and extreme months in projections of United States high-tide flooding
• Rebuilding Coral Reefs: A Decadal Grand Challenge
• Salt marsh resilience to sea-level rise and increased storm intensity

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – July 2021

This issue explores:

• An inshore-offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter
• Coupling of the mid-depth and abyssal components of the global overturning circulation according to a state estimate
• Local conditions magnify coral loss after marine heatwaves

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – June 2021

This issue explores:

• Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon
• At-risk marine biodiversity faces extensive, expanding, and intensifying human impacts
• Summertime increases in upper-ocean stratification and mixer-layer depth

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – April 2021

This issue explores:

• Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
• Physiological consequences of Arctic sea ice loss on large marine carnivores: unique responses by polar bears and narwhals
• Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – March 2021

This issue explores:

• Heat stress destabilises symbiotic nutrient cycling in corals.
• The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean.
• Optimal fishing effort benefits fisheries and conservation.

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – February 2021

This issue explores:

• Global quantitative assessment of microplastics is still lacking
• Persistence of Biological Alterations of Deep-Sea Sediments by Bottom Trawling
• Dynamic symbioses reveal pathways to coral survival through prolonged heatwaves

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – January 2021