Citation: Gouraguine A, Moranta J, Ruiz-Frau A, Hinz H, Reñones O, Ferse SCA, et al. (2019) Citizen science in data and resource-limited areas: A tool to detect long-term ecosystem changes. PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210007. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210007 Note: This post was originally published on the Oceanbites site in January 2019; however, it was lost due to server […]

Reference: Wang, Xiaojie, et al. “Brain regions of marine medaka activated by acute and short-term ocean acidification.” Science of The Total Environment 720 (2020): 137279. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137279 A strange, poisonous gas has been spreading around. Its inhalation is unavoidable. After breathing it for a while, everyone starts acting bizarre. Some confuse left and right; others […]

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of cephalopods. It’s hard not to be when the group includes one-of-a-kind species like the adorable bobtail squid, the deadly blue-ringed octopus and the mysterious vampire squid. Today, we’re celebrating another member of the impressive cephalopod clan: the striped pyjama squid. These tiny animals only grow to about […]

Gregr, E. J., Christensen, V., Nichol, L., Martone, R. G., Markel, R. W., Watson, J. C., … Chan, K. M. A. (2020). Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator. Science, 1247, 1243–1247. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5342   Predators get a bad rap. They are often portrayed as big, bad, scary, eating-machines. But the fact […]

When someone says “New Orleans,” what do you think of? You hear music, see celebrations, smell and taste cuisines, and think of different cultures blending to create one of the world’s greatest communities. If you’ve ever been to an event at the Morial Convention Center, or the Mercedes-Benz Superdome for a Saints game or to […]

Whether they elicit feelings of awe, admiration, or fear, there’s just something fascinating about large animals. In the Western world, large marine animals (or marine megafauna as scientists call them) have experienced a polarizing shift in how human societies view them over the last 50-100 years. In their recent article, published in PLoS ONE this […]

In early April of this year, Cyclone Harold barreled into Vanuatu and 80 other islands across the South Pacific Ocean. This Category 5 storm was one of the strongest cyclones ever recorded. 160,000 of Vanuatu’s residents felt the effects of Cyclone Harold and the U.N. estimates about 80-90% of the island’s population lost their homes. […]

Firth, L. B., Airoldi, L., Bulleri, F., Challinor, S., Chee, S. Y., Evans, A. J., … & Hawkins, S. J. (2020). Greening of grey infrastructure should not be used as a Trojan horse to facilitate coastal development. Journal of Applied Ecology. A diver in an artificial reef, which is also an old, sunken car. Photo by […]