My intro to marine bio students have been reading about nudibranchs. One of their reactions just made me giggle "Honestly, these things are like extraterrestrials ala Avatar meets three hours into a balls-to-the-wall mushroom trip."

Climate change is causing mismatches in the timing of animal migrations. A new study on Atlantic salmon reveals the genes behind their return to rivers and how future warming could disrupt their epic journey 🧬🐟 doi.org/10.1111/eva.70148

Popular press coverage about the @schmidtocean.bsky.social expedition to Mar del Plata Canyon Barbie crabs, sea pigs, and 40 other new species discovered - Earth.com share.google/37DBPFMLyEYm...

TIL #urchinranching is a thing. Land-based #aquaculture removes a few of the purple urchins to fatten them up for market How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economy share.google/tpRBuX9weWC2...

Long thread on the fossil records of sea otters. This is worth your time

35/ If you want to read more about the fossil record of sea otters, check out part two of my blog (part 1 is in the first post of this thread): coastalpaleo.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-...

#MPA #marineprotectedarea #predatordiversity "...in areas where there was limited fishing, as sea star numbers dropped, the urchin population was at least partially kept in check by those legally protected predators." share.google/SmZoFAMPSyGr...

Water anoles take a bubble of air down when they submerge, which they breathe like a tiny scuba tank, and now @lindseyswierk.bsky.social & co reveal that the reptiles may also be using the bubble like a gill, to breathe oxygen directly from the water journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Popular press coverage from SciTechDaily about Stanford researchers finding Arctic diatoms adapted to survive at record low temp of -15 °C. The microbes were living in and "gliding" through channels in ice cores using mucous extensions for propulsion share.google/7Hyc0P2UcdG1...

Stanford researchers in the Chukchi Sea found #diatoms living inside of #icecores at -15 °C, supposedly a new low temperature for eukaryotes. They move by "gliding" through channels in the ice, propelling themselves with strands of mucus. share.google/99QuqK1rDC97...

Popular press coverage from Phys.org New ichthyosaur species with robust ribs discovered in Jurassic clay pit share.google/Tb1MyWrnBB6z...

#Paleontology #fossil #ichthyosaur #ocean Excavations in Bavarian clay find a new species of ichthyosaur A new Eurhinosaurus (Ichthyosauria) species from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Mistelgau (Bavaria, Southern Germany) share.google/TYxx94F4xnmZ...

"In this study, one metric ton of oysters removed about 3.05 kilograms (6.7 pounds) of nitrogen and 0.35 kilograms (0.8 pounds) of phosphorus, and the net result was a nutrient removal that exceeded modeled nutrient pollution by 228 percent" www.earth.com/news/oyster-...

#oyster #aquaculture "one tonne of harvested oysters can remove, on average, 3.05 kg of nitrogen, 0.35 kg of phosphorus and sequester 70.52 kg of carbon from the environment, thus potentially acting as a nutrient remediator and a short-term carbon sink." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Seaweed #aquaculture is growing again, but informed by lessons learned from the past. #Symbrosia 's seaweed farm near Kona will expand to 15 acres, but they're growing Hawaii's native limu kohu, and doing it on land to control the spread, share.google/cv2TbSVLclC3...

The algae situation there ebbed and flowed, hardly in response to the amount of sewage being dumped into the bay, but the problem persisted so long that DNR decided to create the algae "Super Sucker" vacuum off the reefs. coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/nccos-f...

Back in the 1970s, #KaneoheBay and #HonoluluHarbor were being smothered by algae. Some of it was #Kappaphycus, a species native to the Philippines that was introduced experimentally to explore the idea of using it in #aquaculture for #carrageenan dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/in...

Pretend to be shocked when I tell you #Tampa restaurants advertising locally caught seafood instead serve farmed #shrimp Over 80% of sampled Tampa Bay restaurants still sell ‘inauthentic’ imported shrimp, study finds | WFLA share.google/QAL372c7Pabh...

#Paleontology #fossil “During his Master’s in Palaeobiology at Bristol, Jacob realised that many fossils previously assigned to the small marine reptile Pachystropheus actually came from #coelacanth fishes,” said Professor Mike Benton scitechdaily.com/new-species-...

"Recently, it was shown that many isolated #coelacanth bones from the Rhaetian (latest Triassic) bonebeds had been misidentified..." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#Renewableenergy #offshorewind #NewEngland apnews.com/article/trum...

🦞 #lobster "Interestingly, when we deploy them into containers in the sea, they often shift to a darker, more natural blue. But when they return to the hatchery, they become lighter again." #Bluelobsters in Devon and Cornwall waters rising, say scientists - BBC News share.google/4oTpTsiV7zjZ...

So much #sargassum is washing up on the coast. New study talks about where it gets nutrients to grow. "Measurement of stable N isotopes...pointing to the importance of terrestrial runoff, wastewater discharges, and coastal upwelling as potential N sources." share.google/N0jtxDwkQgGV...

Popular press coverage from earth.com Fishermen catch a large-eyed shark never before documented - Earth.com share.google/ptAnWhoGO1JM...

An #elasmobranch species survey in the #Philippines used examined samples from "local fish markets, landing sites, and fish ports." One of the specimens they found was a young #sandbar #shark, apparently one of the first from Philippine Waters share.google/a8DGSO17luGm...

Popular press coverage of the problems that Florida's #sargassum piles are causing for #seaturtles #Sargassum is also becoming increasingly problematic for sea turtle hatchlings, acting as an obstacle as they make the journey from their nests to the water." share.google/rGK7vqGVO248...

The piles of #sargassum building up on #Florida beaches are big enough that they are impacting #seaturtle hatchlings ability to get to the water Physiological Effects of Sargassum Beach Coverage on Three Species of Sea Turtle Hatchlings | Journal of Coastal Research share.google/MWf5iu00w2nS...

To be more blunt, do not buy this piece of rubbish. I have made DIY niskin bottles that work better. ☹️

Yesterday I received a niskin bottle that I ordered. It was their UnitedScientific water sampler (UNTRSMPL01), and I definitely don't recommend it. It's poorly glued (i.e. PVC end pieces falling off) & rubber end caps don't seal most of the time www.geyerinstructional.com/water-sampler/

R.I.P. Robert Redford 😢 I'm planning to rewatch sneakers this weekend youtu.be/G_XRqJV2zdk?...

New AP article from Patrick Whittle about #shrimp #fishing moratoriums in #NewEngland "Regulators will meet in December to determine whether to extend the moratorium, said Chelsea Tuohy" Fishermen could once again be prohibited from catching New England shrimp share.google/bfY8eWTnP1lU...

"He says the anti-sargassum barriers are an essential part of a broader strategy for controlling sargassum near the coast." Mexico most affected in Caribbean: International specialists meet to talk sargassum barrier strategies - Riviera Maya News share.google/ISCL64GKB2bE...

#eDNA Combining Environmental DNA Data With Oceanography, Life History and Ecology for Detecting Climate‐Induced Range Shifts - Zarzyczny - 2025 - Diversity and Distributions - Wiley Online Library share.google/J4jJkHILnSYi...

#Beachrenourcement projects are a triumph in branding. It sounds so much better than saying, "We're spending millions of dollars putting more sand in that place where sand erodes away, and to heck with the wildlife" www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/palm-be...

Meanwhile in #Florida, we're spending $125.5 million to put sand on beaches where weather has been trying to remove it "Levy said 2.5 million cubic yards of sand will be pumped onto the beach." Pinellas County kicks off $125M beach renourishment project share.google/TOvJusr31a3M...

Further coverage of this year's missing #upwelling along the coast of #Panama "A team of scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) linked the disruption to weakened trade winds." For 1st Time in 40 Years, Panama’s Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished share.google/NcMBxu20xPWR...

Google may be refusing to give us a button to make it easy, but it's still possible to shut off #GoogleAI in your browser settings. Adding "udm=14" to your Google searches will put your results on the on the 'Web' tab and skip the AI overview

#Shrimp at over 20 #Tampa Bay #“restaurants being re-tested after falsely claiming Gulf shrimp was being served | FOX 13 Tampa Bay share.google/QmsTmjPBn5G1...

#Norway #Russia #fishing Source: The Barents Observer search.app/uDejg

Scientists respond to the planned termination of the only U.S. Antarctic research vessel share.google/9SvG73SU8IcS...

The Guardian view on fishing and nature: bottom-trawling boats don’t belong in conservation zones | Editorial

🦈 #shark We'reused to thinking of #sharks investigating things with their mouths, but this new paper in the Journal of Fish Biology describes #drone footage that appears to show #whitesharks using their #dorsalfins examine objects

"We found that white sharks might investigate surface objects by rotating their first dorsal fin on its axis towards the object. Our videos suggest that the dorsal fin in white sharks may have additional capabilities beyond being a stabilizing appendage." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today's lecture for intro to marine bio was on #algae, so I gave the kids a chance to try foods containing kelp (salsa, chili krisp, and shortbread cookies), foods with carrageenan (ice cream and chocolate milk), and agar (boba with tapioca pearls)

🚨 Job alert — Assistant bosun on R/V Falkor (too) 🚨 Submit a cover letter and a comprehensive resume/CV to the email provided via this link (we will not accept inquiries via social channels). https://schmidtocean.org/job-post/assistant-bosun/ End date for tendering position: 12 September 2025

"Now, new research from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography reveals that the barrels with halos contained caustic alkaline waste..." Decades-old barrels of #industrialwaste still impacting #ocean floor off #LosAngeles share.google/wmL1MIaYYdQv...

Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez

#radioactiveshrimp AP is reporting the cesium in the shrimp may have come from recycling medical equipment "Contaminated metal at an industrial site in Indonesia may be the source of radioactive material that led to massive recalls of imported frozen shrimp..." share.google/tvSgv4NrP6q9...