by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
In a piece for Nautilus, Sarah DeWeerdt writes about the long-term impact of whaling on the deep-sea ecosystems that depend on “whale fall” — whale corpses that settle in the depths, bringing massive amounts of nutrients with them. These fallen cetaceans nourish...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
Nancy Steinberg writes about a new scientific partnership to investigate connections between human-made debris, zooplankton and gray whales. In the cover story in Oregon Stater, the magazine of the Oregon State University Alumni Association, she describes researchers’...
by Susan Keown | Dec 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Few scientists study the mysterious barnacles that live only on whales, but Mara Grunbaum (@maragrunbaum) takes us into their obscure world for Hakai Magazine. The size and shape of small oranges, these barnacles die quickly out of water and scientists don’t yet know...
by Susan Keown | Dec 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Jenny Morber (@JRMorber) provides us with the delightfully vivid description of whale excrement we never knew we needed in her recent story for Slate. She discusses new research suggesting that baleen whales defecate much more than previously thought — great news for...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
Life scientists looking to boost their marketability should read Catherine Arnold’s profile in Science Careers of a whale-watching, turtle-tracking programmer. Nature programs inspired a computer geek to leave his tedious insurance company job, Catherine writes....
