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  Nesting Gulf of Mexico Loggerhead Turtles Face Offshore Risks

  July 15, 2013 — Threatened loggerhead sea turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico can travel distances up to several hundred miles and visit offshore habitats between nesting events in a single season, taking them ... > full story
• Botany
  Oceanography
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  Phytoplankton Social Mixers: Tiny Ocean Plants Use Turbulence for Travel to Social Gatherings

  July 15, 2013 — Scientists have shown that the motility of phytoplankton also helps them determine their fate in ocean ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Oceanography
  Marine Biology
  Early Climate
  Geography
  Fish
   
  

  Scientists Solve a 14,000-Year-Old Ocean Mystery

  July 14, 2013 — At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea ... > full story
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Oceanography
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  Continuous Satellite Monitoring of Ice Sheets Needed to Better Predict Sea-Level Rise

  July 14, 2013 — The length of the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is currently too short to tell if the recently reported speed-up of ice loss will be sustained in the future or if it ... > full story

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  • Is the Ice in Greenland in Growing Decline? Accelerated Loss of Ice Mass Could Be 'Ice Shield Weather'
• Coral Reefs
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  New Approach to Measuring Coral Growth Offers Valuable Tool for Reef Managers; Surprising Growth Patterns in the Florida Keys

  July 12, 2013 — A new more sensitive weight-based approach for monitoring coral growth in the wild has been developed by U.S. Geological Survey researchers leading to more definitive answers about the status of ... > full story
• Coral Reefs
  Marine Biology
  Ecology
  Ecology Research
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  Biology
   

  A Coral Symbiont Genome Decoded for First Time

  July 12, 2013 — Scientists have decoded the genome of the algae Symbiodinium minutum. This is a major advance in understanding the complex ecology of coral ... > full story
• Wild Animals
  Fish
  Ecology
  Marine Biology
  Ecology Research
  Coral Reefs
   
  

  Caribbean's Native Predators Unable to Stop Aggressive Lionfish Population Growth

  July 11, 2013 — "Ocean predator" conjures up images of sharks and barracudas, but the voracious red lionfish is out-eating them all in the Caribbean -- and Mother Nature appears unable to control its impact on local ... > full story
• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fisheries
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  Lionfish Expedition: Down Deep Is Where the Big, Scary Ones Live

  July 11, 2013 — The first expedition to use a deep-diving submersible to study the Atlantic Ocean lionfish invasion found something very disturbing -- at 300 feet deep, there were still significant populations of ... > full story
• Oceanography
  Fossils
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  Global Warming
  Geography
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Scientists Cast Doubt on Theory of What Triggered Antarctic Glaciation

  July 11, 2013 — Scientists have found geologic evidence that casts doubt on one of the conventional explanations for how Antarctica's ice sheet began forming. They report finding an ancient volcanic arc in the ... > full story
• Dolphins and Whales
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  Killer Whale Genetics: Redefining Stock Structure in a Marine Top Predator

  July 11, 2013 — By collecting 462 skin samples from both resident and transient wild killer whales in the northern North Pacific and characterizing individual genetic variability using two different genetic markers ... > full story

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