More than half a million Floridians work in ocean-related sectors, contributing nearly $40 billion to the state’s GDP. The post Florida’s ocean economy depends on science appeared first on The Invading Sea.| The Invading Sea
by Peter Ridd Not much coral has been killed by climate change bleaching – at least not compared to the capacity of coral to regrow. The latest 2025 statistics on the amount of coral on the Great Barrier Reef show the reef is still doing fine despite having six allegedly cataclysmic coral bleaching events in the last decade. There should be no … Read more| CO2 Coalition
Sally Dowd blends scientific data with angler observations to protect ocean predators, the ecosystems they support, and the communities that depend on them. The post Casting Lines, Catching Data appeared first on UNC Research Stories.| UNC Research Stories
Heather Bruck and Nadya Gutierrez study how shrinking seagrass meadows could threaten the future of vital underwater ecosystems. The post Where the Seagrass Grows appeared first on UNC Research Stories.| UNC Research Stories
Colin Eimers is investigating why so many N.C. oysters die off each year — and how to stop it before farmers lose entire harvests. The post The Shellfish Sleuth appeared first on UNC Research Stories.| UNC Research Stories
Alexis Longmire is exploring how manmade coastal barriers affect predator movement, seagrass, and the future of waterfront communities.| UNC Research Stories
There is something unforgettable about the Wedge and the way its waves crash with such raw force. Sometimes they detonate just offshore, sending water skyrocketing into the air; other times they slam thunderously against the sand, eliciting groans and whoops from bystanders.| California Curated
Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The ocean covers about 70 percent of Earth’s surface and holds 96 percent of its water. But because it’s saturated with salt, it isn’t drinkable. Sailors have known this for centuries, and that’s a profound … Continue reading California’s Precarious Future and the Promise—and Limits—of Desalination→| California Curated
Launching a Triton 3300/3 submersible from a scientific support ship in the Bahamas. (Photo: Erik Olsen) It’s time for California to put people back in the deep. A human-occupied submersible belong…| California Curated
Announcing the 2025-2026 Forage Fish Research Fellows: Advancing Florida's Coastal […]| International Game Fish Association
A situation which is not easy to navigate for an enthusiastic young person is to figure out what the various| Pacificklaus – Pacificklaus
Arianna (Ari) Binienda is the island’s new Education Coordinator for the Pigeon Key Foundation, filling the role after the previous Education Coordinator,| Pigeon Key
How Smart Policy and Collaboration Brought Groundfish Back From the Brink Vermillion Rockfish scientific illustration Recently, I wrote a more personal essay than I usually would, one in which I re…| California Curated
A new study published in the journal PLOS One by researchers at William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS suggests parasitic worms could serve as a valuable biomarker for managing the fishery.| W&M News
Scientists from Colorado State University, Georgia Southern, the University of Georgia and the University of Texas at Austin developed a model to provide an early warning and opportunity to protect an ecosystem that serves as the first line of defense against coastal flooding. By using satellite observations, the model identified vulnerable marshes along Georgia’s coast by locating declining root production – a harbinger of marsh failure.| franklin.uga.edu
The complex and dynamic microbial communities and microbially-mediated processes that occur in the ocean help stabilize the earth's climate.| franklin.uga.edu
Authors: Angharad Elliman, Freya Goodsir, Todd Last From November 12th to 22nd, 2024, the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) teams from Cefas and JNCC, embarked on a technical visit to Sri Lanka. This visit was part of a broader effort …| Marine Science
Author: Amy Anderson (MMO) In October, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO)’s Global Marine Team undertook a deployment to Madagascar under the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP). The Ocean Country Partnership Programme is a bilateral technical assistance and capacity building programme …| Marine Science
In October, the Ocean Country Partnership Programme (OCPP) team from Cefas visited the Maldives to enhance local expertise in the collection of data from fishers, water quality monitoring and OSPAR methods of beach monitoring. The visit began with adverse weather …| Marine Science
The 23rd annual Marine Science Day, the marquee open house event at William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS, drew more than 2,000 attendees on Saturday, May 31 with public access to academic buildings and research laboratories.| W&M News
The Channel Islands of California, an enchanting archipelago, offer a fascinating natural laboratory for the study of island biogeography. This field of biology, which explores the distribution of …| California Curated
The Reves Center for International Studies has awarded the 2025 Reves and Drapers’ Faculty Fellowships to five William & Mary professors.| W&M News
Chesapeake Bay Hall serves as a hub for much of the lab-based science driving the institutions’ academic, research and advisory missions.| W&M News
W&M’s Batten School & VIMS recently hosted a delegation of government officials and aquaculture industry representatives from Atlantic Canada.| W&M News
More than 4,000 members of the William & Mary community gathered Oct. 17-20 on campus for this year’s Homecoming & Reunion Weekend.| W&M News
The 2024 value is significantly lower than the historic average of 7.77 fish per seine haul and marks the second consecutive year of below-average recruitment in Virginia tributaries.| W&M News
The results of this year's survey show their population may be approaching sustainable levels.| W&M News
A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula by researchers at VIMS and William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences.| W&M News
The two-week course is designed to expose them to field-based, coastal marine research.| W&M News
High salinity regions showed record expansion of eelgrass.| W&M News
William & Mary’s reputation as the premier global institution for coastal and marine sciences is reaching new shores.| W&M News
University and community leaders react to the $100 million gift to establish William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences.| W&M News
This historic gift is the largest ever to a university in support of coastal and marine science education, research and solutions.| W&M News
Led by W&M scientists, new focus on understudied 'mixoplankton' helps to better understand aquatic ecosystems.| W&M News
William & Mary alumni are pursuing solutions on a much larger scale.| W&M News
Humans are increasing the rate at which organic matter decomposes in freshwater ecosystems around the world, speeding up natural processes that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and threaten biodiversity.| W&M News
The 50th anniversary of the pioneering shark survey marks a milestone in scientific research and demonstrates VIMS researchers’ dedication to understanding and conserving marine life.| W&M News
What is life? Where did it come from? Why does it end? 3.7 billion years ago in an obscure part of an unexceptional corner of the universe, something incredible happened. Through an incalculably unlikely set of circumstances, life was created.| MarineBio Conservation Society
What lies hidden beneath the sea is one of the Earth's biggest mysteries, with only 5% of the area explored - but the Schmidt Ocean Institute is changing this.| MarineBio Conservation Society
