 November 4, 2009Having Their Phosphorus and Eating It Too Scientists discover a marine species with remarkable talents that help it corner the market on a scarce but critical nutrient in the oceans. Source: Oceanus Magazine  November 13, 2007Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron Scientists, policymakers, economists, and environmental advocates gathered at a symposium at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to iron out the uncertainties of fertilizing the oceans with iron as a means to mediate global warming. Source: Oceanus Magazine  July 25, 2006Ocean Microscope Reveals Surprising Abundance of Life Using a new automated digital underwater microscope called a Video Plankton Recorder, scientists can observe and count bacteria and other tiny organisms over wide stretches of the ocean depths. Source: Oceanus Magazine  April 10, 2006Live From the Tropics, It's an Ocean Network WHOI scientists have installed PLUTO (the Panama Liquid Jungle Lab Underwater Tropical Observatory)—the latest in a series of cabled "undersea laboratories" that can continuously track conditions in coastal waters and transmit live images and data back to scientists worldwide. Source: Oceanus Magazine  February 10, 2006Graduate Student Discovers an Unusual New Species Several marine bacteria incorporate magnetic compounds that orient them northward (and downward in the Northern Hemisphere) along Earth's magnetic field lines, where they find low-oxygen waters. The "barbell" bacterium inexplicably orients itself southward. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 20, 2006To Find Whales, Follow Their Food WHOI biologist employs an array of tools to reveal right whale feeding habits and habitats. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 19, 2006Diving into the Right Whale Gene Pool Like forensic detectives, a multi-institutional team of scientists has followed a thread of DNA from the highly endangered right whale population across the oceans and back through generations. Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 17, 2006Doing the Right Thing for the Right Whale The situation is urgent: Seventy years after whaling was banned, the North Atlantic right whale population has not recovered. Only 300 to 350 remain, and the species is headed toward extinction. (First of a series of three articles.) Source: Oceanus Magazine  October 24, 2005Scientific (and Surfing) Safari Eric Montie is—undeniably—a surfer dude. But watch him spend hours in the lab developing methods to learn if chemical contaminants are affecting dolphin brains. It's evident that his interest in the ocean runs much deeper than finding the gnarliest wave. Source: Oceanus Magazine  October 11, 2005Finding Nemo...and Other Endangered Fish Using the common antibiotic tetracycline, scientists chemically tagged clownfish ear bones to learn where they migrate and help identify critical habitats that should be protected. Source: Oceanus Magazine  September 9, 2005Building an Automated Underwater Microscope WHOI biologist Heidi Sosik discusses plankton and a new way of looking at it, the Imaging FlowCytobot Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 30, 2005A Tropical Research Paradise WHOI Trustees Frank and Lisina Hoch have issued a one-to-one $1.125 million challenge to seize new opportunities and expand the Institution’s research in tropical regions. Source: Oceanus Magazine  June 1, 2005Sensors to Make Sense of the Sea It is difficult and expensive to go to sea, hard to reach remote oceans and depths, and impossible to stay long. Like scientists in other fields, oceanographers use sensors to project their senses into remote or harsh environments for extended time periods. But the oceans present some unique obstacles: Instruments are limited by available power, beaten by waves, corroded by salt water, and fouled by prolific marine organisms that accumulate rapidly on their surfaces. Source: Oceanus Magazine  April 7, 2005Big Trouble from Little Squirts While invasive sea squirts won't harm people, scientists worry about effects on marine life. Evidence shows that sea squirts smother scallops and mussels, push out native species of sea squirts, and coat the seafloor, making areas uninhabitable to fish eggs and shellfish larvae. Source: Oceanus Magazine  February 15, 2005Tracking Fish to Save Them Can Nassau groupers from the immense coral reef of Belize restock the overfished Caribbean? Source: Oceanus Magazine  February 10, 2005Mistaken Identity Two bromine compounds found in whale blubber are natural products, not industrial pollutants Source: Oceanus Magazine  January 19, 2005Can We Catch More Fish and Still Preserve the Stock? People have always fished. But the history of fishing is also the history of overfishing. For hundreds of years, the establishment and enforcement of fishery management policies have generated controversy, as competing authorities have searched for a way to balance competing goals—to catch as many fish as possible while conserving the resource. To resolve this dilemma, we have applied mathematics—and we are finding that the ancient solution may still prove effective in modern times. Source: Oceanus Magazine  November 4, 2004Scientists Muster to Help Right Whales It is a sad irony that we have cataloged individual photographs of the remaining North Atlantic right whales and given each of them unique numbers and sometimes names, yet still know too little about their physiology, behavior, and habitats to take effective steps toward ensuring their survival as a species. Source: Oceanus Magazine Last updated: November 9, 2009 | |||||||||||||
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