A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base. (Credit: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE.) KZ already posted this yesterday but you should venture over to the NOAA website and view both . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-sea Corals Pt. 2
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By Dr. M, on  November 6th, 2010  Leave a comment  Coral, Oil Spills  Coral, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Oil Spill By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Coral, Expeditions, Industry & Government, Oil Spills Coral, NOAA, Oil Spill, Soft Coral Fresh out of the NOAA news office: [...] Operating from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and using a variety of tools including the National Deep Submergence Facility’s Jason II remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), researchers were working at a site 1,400 meters deep (roughly 4,600 feet) and approximately seven miles southwest of the Macondo wellhead when . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-Sea Corals
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 4th, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Coral, Expeditions, Oil Spills, Organisms BP, Coral, deep-sea coral, Deepwater Horizon, dispersants, GreenPeace, Gulf of Mexico, John Hocevar, Lophelia pertuse, oil, Oil Spill John Hocevar is a marine biologist and is the Oceans Campaign Director for Greenpeace USA, where he oversees their oceans and fisheries work, including efforts to get major supermarket chains to improve the sustainability of their seafood, to establish a network of large scale marine reserves, to protect the Arctic Ocean from offshore drilling, and . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Greenpeace in the Gulf of Mexico – an Update
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral bleaching, climate change, Coral, global warming If the impending coral death in the Caribbean didn’t make you nauseous… International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions. Many reefs are dead or dying across the Indian Ocean and into . . . → Read More: Worst coral death strikes at Southeast Asia
By Dr. M, on October 18th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather climate change, Coral, coral bleaching, global warming, reef, Temperature, warm water And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may be the worst year ever for coral death there. Abnormally warm water since June appears to have dealt a blow to shallow and deep-sea corals that is likely to . . . → Read More: Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
By Dr. M, on October 14th, 2010 One comment Carnivals & Link Love, Coral, Ecology, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Scientist!, Seamount Asteroid, Chris Mah, Coral, echionderm, Lonny Lundsten, MBARI A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in this Youtube video narrated by Lonny. Congrats to the three authors. By RickMac, on September 28th, 2010 11 comments Conservation & Environment acidification, climate change, CO2, conservation, Coral, coral bleaching, coral reef, ocean acidification, RB Editor's Selection, research blogging The left image represents an intact system at current CO2 levels; the center image shows coral decay with increased CO2; and the right image shows a devastated system with even higher CO2 emissions. O. Hoegh-Guldberg, et al (2007) Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification, Science, 318(5857), p. 1741 When you’re in . . . → Read More: Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral Reefs
By Dr. M, on August 26th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Fish, Organisms adaptation, benthic boundary layer, Coral, currents, fins, hermaphrodite, pectoral, pelvic, tripod fish One of the denizens of the deep is the 30cm long tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator. This unusual fish is typically found anywhere between 1-5km deep in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and western Indian, although future exploration wil likely reveal that is global. First described over a century ago in 1886, the common name comes . . . → Read More: The Fish That Walks on Stilts
By Dr. M, on August 1st, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms, Social Sciences 'Oro, ahu, architecture, Biomass, Carbon, chlorophyll, climate change, Coral, flux, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, marae, Mo'orea, phytoplankton, POC, Polynesia, SST, The Tide Pool, Thorium An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm from Dalhousie University, provides clear evidence of decreasing phytoplankton biomass over the last century. The researchers used a blended dataset of ~450,000 measurements of chlorophyll consisting of field measurements of . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity
By Dr. M, on June 6th, 2010 2 comments Coral, Oil Spills British Petroleum, Coral, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill From Science Daily… Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately 1502 m. (4928 ft.), but not all of it reaches the sea surface. The stratified seawater of the Gulf of Mexico captures or slows the ascent of the oil, and . . . → Read More: Oil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At Risk
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