Was just sent these great informative short videos about research being done to understand how climate change affects coastal communities. Coastal organisms live in areas with much day to day variation. There are the changing tides, the amount sun exposure, and also shade from tidal zone seaweeds and rock crevices. This makes coastal animals, like . . . → Read More: California Coastal Climate Change Research
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  December 11th, 2012  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Climate Change, Ecology, New Research, Scientist!  California, climate change, Coastal, Ecology, mussel, oyster, Research, Sea Star, starfish, University of California By Dr. M, on September 25th, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Organisms apoptosis, bivalve, Environmental Sciences, genome, heat shock, Mollusca, mollusk, oyster, protein, shell, stress Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million years, bivalves gained gills modified to filter feed, siphons to better breath, and a muscular foot to bury themselves into the sediment. However, for the last ~400 million years . . . → Read More: Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 9th, 2010 16 comments Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Oil Spills Best of Zelnio, fisheries, Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria, Oil Spill, oyster, Puget Sound, Seattle, Stormwater Runoff, Washington When I posted Iglu’s revised Oil Spill Timeline a few days, I didn’t give much thought to visual properties of the data presented in the screenshot I chose to represent. I was focused on the actual numbers. Sean Carroll quickly pointed out that it was a very misleading graphic because the circles were scaled by . . . → Read More: Putting Oilmageddon 2010 in Context
By Dr. M, on March 23rd, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms Alfred Hitchcocks, algae, benthic, California, deep sea, diatom, Disturbance, domoic acid, Environmental Issues, flux, memory loss, neurotoxic, oyster, particles, poisoning, sediment trap, shellfish, surface production, The Birds Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep
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