Science Round-up

This issue explores:

• Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre
• Global seaweed productivity
• Compound marine heatwaves and ocean acidity extremes.

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – September 2022

This issue explores:

• Vertically migrating phytoplankton fuel high oceanic primary production
• Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change
• Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea.

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – August 2022

This issue explores:

• A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conservation
• Chronic oiling in global oceans
• Return of large fin whale feeding aggregations to historical whaling grounds in the Southern Ocean

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – July 2022

This issue explores:

• Interbasin and interhemisphere impacts of a collapsed Atlantic Overturning Circulation
• Evidence that Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins self-medicate with invertebrates in coral reefs
• First evidence of microplastics in Antarctica snow

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – June 2022

This issue explores:

• High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands
• A globally consistent local-scale assessment of future tropical cyclone risk
• Surface warming-induced global acceleration of upper ocean currents

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – May 2022

This issue explores:

• Towards climate-smart, three-dimensional protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the High Seas
• Revealing global risks of labour abuse and illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
• Trends in Europe storm surge extremes match the rate of sea-level rise

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – April 2022

This issue explores:

• Evaluation of MPA designs that protect highly mobile megafauna now and under climate change scenarios
• Monitoring global fishing activity in proximity to seamounts using automatic identification systems
• Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – March 2022

This issue explores:

• No recovery of a large-scale anthropogenic sediment disturbance on the Pacific seafloor after 77 years at 6460 m depth
• The recent normalization of historical marine heat extremes
• Timing and magnitude of climate-driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – February 2022

This issue explores:

• A vast icefish breeding colony discovered in the Antarctic
• Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss
• Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – January 2022

This issue explores:

• The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change
• The Global fishing Index: Assessing the sustainability of the world’s marine fisheries
• Mapping global inputs and impacts from of human sewage in coastal ecosystems

Continue reading Monthly Ocean Science Roundup – November 2021