2018

Pelagic tunicates floating in the ocean

Mammoth grazers on the ocean’s minuteness: a review of selective feeding using mucous meshes

Recent evidence shows mucous-mesh feeding can be a selective process.
picture of flood warning sign at the beach with waves crashing into a building

Mapping out climate change: Assessing how coastal communities adapt using alternative future scenarios

This paper examines process of developing an alternative future coastal policy and climate scenarios process in Tillamook, Oregon.
Pelagic tunicates floating in the ocean

Meet the ocean creatures that use a mesh of mucus to catch their food

Article published in The Conversation explains new discoveries on the unusual feeding strategies of mucous-mesh grazers
sea squirt

Not-so-simple sieving by ascidians: re-examining particle capture at the mesh and organismal scales

Research results suggest that ascidian (sea squirt) filtration acts as a hybrid-flow filtration system rather than a classical direct sieve.
Image of app on a phone used to track marine mammal sitings by volunteers

Obstacles and Opportunities of Using a Mobile App for Marine Mammal Research

This study investigates the use of a mobile application, Whale mAPP, as a citizen science tool for collecting marine mammal sighting data.
hand holding hundreds of small Pacific oyster larvae

Ocean acidification stress index for shellfish (OASIS): Linking Pacific oyster larval survival and exposure to variable carbonate chemistry regimes

Researchers developed a new metric, the Ocean Acidification Stress Index for Shellfish (OASIS), for understanding Pacific oyster larval responses to variable regimes of seawater carbonate chemistry.

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