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Experts gather to study fish stocks' distribution in response to climate change
fishupdate.com | 23 May 2013
ICES and PICES experts have gathered this week in St Petersburg, Russia, to study the spatial distribution of fish stocks and fisheries and projected responses to climate changes.

Prawn catch report highlights dynamic nature of seas
fishupdate.com | 23 May 2013
The publication of a scientific article by Marine Scotland on the environmental factors affecting a key fishery in the North Sea for prawns (langoustines) highlights the dynamic nature of the marine environment and the need for greater understanding of such natural fluxes, says the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF).

Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Research

AFBI at the Belfast Titanic Maritime Festival
fishupdate.com | 23 May 2013
How do you tell how old a fish is, or how many prawns there are in the Irish Sea? What lives under the waves around the coasts?

Atlantic Ocean | Research

New DNA test can detect Bluff oyster-killing infection
New Zealand Herald | 23 May 2013
A new DNA test has been developed to detect low levels of the Bluff oyster-killer bonamia. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) and molecular diagnostic company dnature have developed a DNA test that is more sensitive, and can detect lower levels of infection, than using a microscope.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research

Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
EurekAlert | 22 May 2013
(University of Hawaii ? SOEST) Researchers from the University of Hawaii, Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered.

Pacific Ocean | Coral | Research

Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 22 May 2013
Study of a right whale named Eg 3911 reveals how entanglement can cause a slow, invisible death

Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Marine Mammals | Research

Surprise discovery of huge bird colony on small island
New Zealand Herald | 22 May 2013
A survey of a small inshore island at Cape Foulwind, near Westport, has led to the surprise discovery of what appears to be the largest West Coast seabird colony between Cook Strait and Fiordland.

Pacific Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Scientists Explore Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 21 May 2013
A new study, published online May 19 in the journal Nature Geoscience, looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Sea level influenced tropical climate during the last ice age
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
The Indo-Pacific warm pool was much dryer during the last ice age than today, because lower sea level exposed the Sunda Shelf. The large landmass, in place of the warm ocean, altered the atmospheric circulation, shifting convection further west into the Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Puffin nest cam: wildlife experts install cameras in burrows as census begins
Telegraph | 17 May 2013
A puffin census is under way on the Farne Islands to determine how many breeding pairs of the birds live at the main breeding site. Rangers are also installing cameras in the birds burrows to study the birds.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Puffin census examines impact of winter on breeding numbers - video
Guardian Unlimited | 17 May 2013
Patrick Barkham heads to the north-east of England to visit the Farne Islands, where the National Trust is embarking on an epic census of the puffin population.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Conservationists to count breeding birds after 'puffin wreck' winter
Guardian Unlimited | 17 May 2013
Nipped fingers and handfuls of guano will be the order of the day for wildlife rangers on the Farne Islands as they embark on an epic census on Friday to discover whether puffin numbers have plummeted after a year of extreme weather. The 10 National Trust rangers living on the islands must dangle their bare fingers down 60,000 puffin burrows in the next two months to determine whether breeding pairs have fallen after the worst puffin "wreck" for 66 years.

Atlantic Ocean | Research | Seabirds

Cooling ocean temperature could buy more time for coral reefs
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(University of Bristol) Limiting the amount of warming experienced by the world's oceans in the future could buy some time for tropical coral reefs, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

Climate Change | Coral | Research

Microbes capture, store, and release nitrogen to feed reef-building coral
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(American Society for Microbiology) Microscopic algae that live within reef-forming corals scoop up available nitrogen, store the excess in crystal form, and slowly feed it to the coral as needed, according to a study published in mBio.

Coral | Research

Corals turn to algae for stored food when times get tough
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Researchers at EPFL present new evidence for the crucial role of algae in the survival of their coral hosts. Ultra-high resolution images reveal that the algae temporarily store nutrients as crystals, building up reserves for when supplies run low.

Coral | Research

James Cameron to be publicly honored with Scripps Nierenberg Prize
EurekAlert | 16 May 2013
Ocean frontier explorer and world-renowned filmmaker James Cameron has been named by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as the recipient of the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest.

Deep Sea | Diving | Research

A Book Blooms in the Lab
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 16 May 2013
When conditions of light and nutrients align in the surface waters of the ocean, tiny single-celled algae called phytoplankton respond with explosive growth and reproduction in a phenomenon known as a phytoplankton bloom.

Plankton | Research

Seabird bones reveal changes in open-ocean food chain
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(Michigan State University) Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels -- both ancient and modern -- show how drastically today's open seas fish menu has changed.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research | Seabirds

Using earthquake sensors to track endangered whales
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(University of Washington) Oceanographers analyzed more than 300,000 fin-whale calls recorded by seafloor seismometers and recreated more than 150 fin-whale paths off the Pacific Northwest coast.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals | Research

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