by Susan Keown | Feb 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
For Oregon State University’s Strata Magazine, Nancy Steinberg profiles the work of Astrid Leitner, who studies areas of the ocean that have rarely — or never — been explored. Steinberg explains the tools and techniques the scientist uses to observe and take samples...
by Susan Keown | Dec 16, 2023 | ScienceWire
Hannah Hickey writes for UW News about new research in ice cores that suggests the condition of North Atlantic’s phytoplankton populations is not as dire as scientists have feared. Phytoplankton — tiny floating photosynthesizers — are at the base of the ocean’s food...
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
For NASA’s Earth Observatory, Lindsey Doermann writes about new research showing that our oceans are turning more green. Caused by growth of phytoplankton, this shift was predicted by climate-change models, although researchers can’t yet pinpoint the specific...
by Susan Keown | May 6, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Sarah Trent (@sftrent) writes for High Country News on the new U.N. High Seas Treaty and whether the agreement might help Pacific salmon. Some of the experts Trent spoke with doubted whether the new marine protected areas spurred by the treaty would have a...
by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Among the many threats to ocean life — and to the fishermen who make their living from it — is hypoxia, or low oxygen levels. Crabs can suffocate in hypoxic waters, writes Julia Rosen (@1juliarosen) for Hakai Magazine, but a new partnership between crabbers and...
