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Beautiful intruders: the misplaced lionfish
Lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) populations have drastically exploded in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean in the past decade, and not without attracting some attention. The trouble is...
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Economically, live sharks > dead sharks
1 live reef shark in Palau = 179,000 USD in the ecotourism industry. Or killed and sold once for 108 USD. Just economically, not even considering the ecosystem services involved, sharks are worth...
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Human pathogen can cause coral disease
Despite the resilience of corals as a taxonomic group through geologic time, warming oceans, shifting seawater chemistry, overfishing, pollution, and disease currently threaten these habitat-building...
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Live deep-sea footage
The Visions ’11 cruise is streaming live deep-sea video footage via an ROV puttering around in the depths. Read more about the cruise here and check out the live video feed here. (If you’re having...
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Uncharted Atolls lives!
And we’re back! After a year or so hiatus, it seems. The past year has been busy! I’ve been getting established into my new PhD program, writing grants, other typical grad-studenty type shenanigans....
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Quick comment re: Shark Week
Hark! A Shark! Great White offshore of Mexico. Credit: Wikipedia user Sharkdiver88. Public domain. In the throes of this year’s rendition of Discovery’s cacophony of teeth and excited narration, I...
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3 million years of a marine latitudinal diversity gradient
Perhaps the largest, most visible, macroecological trend on this planet is that there are generally more species in the tropics (low latitudes) than the poles (high latitudes). This pattern has been...
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A glimpse at Davidson Seamount
Seamounts (underwater mountains) make up a a huge cumulative habitat type in the ocean, and distinct biological communities can exist on the same underwater feature. As a part of an investigation by...
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Stomatopods at Radiolab
Somewhat recently, the ever-excellent podcast Radiolab aired an episode all about colors and how we as humans perceive them. During the episode, Jad and Robert talk to a visual ecologist about the...
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