Rare squid found in Gulf of Mexico
COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M University oceanographer William Sager spotted and photographed an unusual squid while investigating natural oil seeps deep in the Gulf of Mexico. The results of his serendipitous encounter will appear in this Friday's (Dec. 21) edition of the prestigious research journal S...Biological oceanographer William K. Macy at the University of Rhode Islands Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) has examined the population structure of the long-finned squid (Loligo pealeii) during the winter offshore season and the seasonal trends in its age structure bo...Scientists chart iron cycle in ocean
...bacteria cope in these oceanic environments," said oceanographer Ken Bruland of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Butler believes the findings on how the complex iron molecules are broken down by sunlight could also contribute to research on alternate drug delivery systems, possibly providing a na...Biological oceanographer and URI professor emeritus Saul B. Saila has been given the Award of Excellence by the American Fisheries Society (AFS). The award is the oldest major AFS award and the most prestigious presented to an individual. Presented annually since 1969, it is...Analysis of impact studies reveals how bottom fishing affects seafloor denizens
...ts, including University of Rhode Island fisheries oceanographer Jeremy S. Collie, analyzed data from a number of separate fishing impact studies and have come to some surprising conclusions. The results of Collies meta-analysis, which is the summary of multiple, independent studies to detect general relationsh...Scripps scientists, diving officer receive honors
...lic leaders. John Largier, an associate research oceanographer with the Scripps Marine Life Research Group and the Center for Coastal Studies, has been awarded a fellowship from the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program. Named for environmental scientist Aldo Leopold, the Oregon State University-operated program is de...Study finds wind, currents play key role where young fish settle
...t property for other inlets." Texas A&M University oceanographer George Jackson said the winds, tides and currents concentrate the larvae near inlet openings and then the larvae are slurped through the passes in pulses. The estuary acts as a big pump, taking water from close to shore, expelling it through the pass...URI oceanographers discover how planetary waves affect phytoplankton production
...ceanographers Mete Uz and James Yoder and physical oceanographer Vladimir Osychny reported on their two-year analysis of satellite-derived data on chlorophyll and sea-surface-height. The data shows that planetary waves, waves that travel in a westward direction in the oceans, are associated with five to 20 percent...First chapter of Earth's "biological record" documented from space
...n for us," said lead author Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "We've never been able to see the Earth this way before." The study, which appears this week in the journal Science, is based on the first three years of daily observations of ocean algae and land...El Niño's dramatic impact on ocean biology and carbon dioxide captured by unique monitoring system
...chlorophyll concentrations," said MBARI biological oceanographer Francisco Chavez, lead author of the new study. It was the mooring measurements and SeaWiFS data that revealed surprisingly low and high levels of chlorophyll, coinciding with El Niño's strongest phase and the transition to La Niña coo......Lab ( http://www.opl.ucsb.edu/opl.html ),headed by oceanographer Tommy D. Dickey, spends most of its time developinginstrumentation for and analyzing biogeochemical data from prominentinternational ocean research activities like the Bermuda Testbed Mooring in the Atlantic Ocean, or the Arabian Sea Investigation, i...