News outlets enjoyed a field day last month reporting on the amazing vitality of Porites sp. coral colonies in the South Pacific Bikini Atoll where…
View More Footprint of the Atomic Age in the world’s oceansAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Footprint of the Atomic Age in the world's oceans
News outlets enjoyed a field day last month reporting on the amazing vitality of Porites sp. coral colonies in the South Pacific Bikini Atoll where…
View More Footprint of the Atomic Age in the world's oceansThings that eat coral
People eat sea anemones and jellyfish, but they would have to be seriously, deliriously, Castaway hungry to eat a coral. Or else corals would have been gone long ago. But, … this does NOT mean coral is without natural enemies.
View More Things that eat coralDeep corals are old as the hills, archives of climate change
The coelenterates, corals and their relatives, are very ancient, and in fact may be the oldest metazoans. Proterozoic burrows preserved in the Mackenzie Mountains of Northwest Canada were probably made by animals resembling cerianthid anemones, and are about one billion years old.
View More Deep corals are old as the hills, archives of climate changeMonk seals dig deep-corals, so we should, too
One of the challenges of deep coral research is convincing people that deep corals form habitat for other animals, animals of particular concern, like fish…
View More Monk seals dig deep-corals, so we should, tooStitchin’ Fish is knittin’ coral
Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) never looked so… cuddly. It’s amazing. Who would believe someone could knit a sea fan and do it so well? Ecology…
View More Stitchin’ Fish is knittin’ coralStitchin' Fish is knittin' coral
Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) never looked so… cuddly. It’s amazing. Who would believe someone could knit a sea fan and do it so well? Ecology…
View More Stitchin' Fish is knittin' coralDeep-sea corals have complex microbial assemblages, just like shallow corals
This is the second in a series of five referenced articles about shared characteristics between deep and shallow water corals Special guest post by Christina…
View More Deep-sea corals have complex microbial assemblages, just like shallow coralsGlobal hotspots of deep coral diversity
One of the central questions in marine biogeography asks “why are there more species of fish and coral in the Indo-Pacific than anywhere else in the world?”
View More Global hotspots of deep coral diversityDeep-sea corals are rich and beautiful, like their shallow tropical counterparts
This is first in a series of five referenced articles about shared characteristics in deep-sea and shallow-water corals.
View More Deep-sea corals are rich and beautiful, like their shallow tropical counterparts