Oceans and Seas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A High-Resolution Time Series Reveals Distinct Seasonal Patterns of Planktonic Fungi at a Temperate Coastal Ocean Site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA). 
  • A call for deep-ocean stewardship. 
  • A census of marine biodiversity knowledge, resources, and future challenges. 
  • A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining. 
  • An ecosystem-based deep-ocean strategy. 
  • Analysis of alkylphenol ethoxylate metabolites in the aquatic environment using liquid chromatography-electrospray mass spectrometry 
  • Approximate Bayesian Computation Reveals the Crucial Role of Oceanic Islands for the Assembly of Continental Biodiversity. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Bright Spots in Coastal Marine Ecosystem Restoration. 
  • Bycatch of marine mammals in U.S. and global fisheries. 
  • Carteriosulfonic acids A-C, GSK-3beta inhibitors from a Carteriospongia sp. 
  • Characterizing fishing effort and spatial extent of coastal fisheries 
  • Climate Change, Human Impacts, and Coastal Ecosystems in the Anthropocene. 
  • Comment on "Open-ocean fish reveal an omnidirectional solution to camouflage in polarized environments". 
  • Complexity and variation in loggerhead sea turtle life history. 
  • Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm. 
  • Cryptic and conspicuous coloration in the pelagic environment. 
  • Deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystem research during the census of marine life decade and beyond: a proposed deep-ocean road map. 
  • Dependence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on hydrogen peroxide scavenging microbes for growth at the ocean's surface. 
  • Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise. 
  • Dramatic variability of the carbonate system at a temperate coastal ocean site (Beaufort, North Carolina, USA) is regulated by physical and biogeochemical processes on multiple timescales. 
  • Dynamic ocean management increases the efficiency and efficacy of fisheries management. 
  • Environmental stability impacts the differential sensitivity of marine microbiomes to increases in temperature and acidity. 
  • Evaluation of the current state of mechanistic aquatic biogeochemical modeling: citation analysis and future perspectives. 
  • Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. 
  • Extrapolating cetacean densities to quantitatively assess human impacts on populations in the high seas. 
  • From the track to the ocean: Using flow control to improve marine bio-logging tags for cetaceans. 
  • Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation. 
  • Genomic Characterization of the Evolutionary Potential of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Facing Ocean Acidification. 
  • Global gene expression of Prochlorococcus ecotypes in response to changes in nitrogen availability. 
  • Hide and seek in the open sea: pelagic camouflage and visual countermeasures. 
  • High contents of hypotaurine and thiotaurine in hydrothermal-vent gastropods without thiotrophic endosymbionts. 
  • High phylogenetic diversity and abundance pattern of Labyrinthulomycete protists in the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea. 
  • High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net. 
  • Higher normalized concentrations of tetracycline resistance found in ballast and harbor water compared to ocean water. 
  • Hybridization in postglacial marine habitats. 
  • Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre. 
  • Integrated ocean management for a sustainable ocean economy. 
  • Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. 
  • Legal bedrock for rebuilding America’s ocean ecosystems. 
  • Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: I. Bioluminescence at 500-1000 m depth in the Bahamian islands. 
  • Light and vision in the deep-sea benthos: II. Vision in deep-sea crustaceans. 
  • Light scattering by selected zooplankton from the Gulf of Aqaba. 
  • Making marine life count: a new baseline for policy. 
  • Man and the last great wilderness: human impact on the deep sea. 
  • Marine Socio-Environmental Covariates: queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies. 
  • Marine diatom proteorhodopsins and their potential role in coping with low iron availability. 
  • Marine fungi. 
  • Maximizing oyster-reef growth supports green infrastructure with accelerating sea-level rise. 
  • Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. 
  • Mysterious bio-duck sound attributed to the Antarctic minke whale (Balaenoptera bonaerensis). 
  • Ocean acidification induces distinct transcriptomic responses across life history stages of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. 
  • Oxidative iron species and ocean challenges: a perspective. 
  • PBDEs, methoxylated PBDEs and HBCDs in Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) from Korean offshore waters. 
  • Patchy Blooms and Multifarious Ecotypes of Labyrinthulomycetes Protists and Their Implication in Vertical Carbon Export in the Pelagic Eastern Indian Ocean. 
  • Patchy Distributions and Distinct Niche Partitioning of Mycoplankton Populations across a Nearshore to Open Ocean Gradient. 
  • Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes. 
  • Photosynthetic maximum quantum yield increases are an essential component of the Southern Ocean phytoplankton response to iron 
  • Protect the deep sea. 
  • Radiated noise from commercial ships in the Gulf of Maine: implications for whale/vessel collisions. 
  • Rapid changes in coastal ocean microbiomes uncoupled with shifts in environmental variables. 
  • Regional trends and drivers of the global methane budget. 
  • Reproductive output and duration of the pelagic larval stage determine seascape-wide connectivity of marine populations. 
  • Results of efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas. 
  • Scale-dependent interactions and community structure on cobble beaches. 
  • Science, policy advocacy, and marine protected areas. 
  • Sediment challenge to promising ultra-low fouling hydrophilic surfaces in the marine environment. 
  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters 
  • Spatio-temporal gap analysis of OBIS-SEAMAP project data: assessment and way forward. 
  • The Challenges of Analyzing Behavioral Response Study Data: An Overview of the MOCHA (Multi-study OCean Acoustics Human Effects Analysis) Project. 
  • The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition 
  • The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet. 
  • The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy. 
  • The in-vivo oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve at sea level and high altitude. 
  • The ocean sampling day consortium. 
  • The oceans are changing: impact of ocean warming and acidification on biofouling communities. 
  • The performance of matched-field track-before-detect methods using shallow-water Pacific data. 
  • Thermal physiology integrated species distribution model predicts profound habitat fragmentation for estuarine fish with ocean warming. 
  • Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining. 
  • To boldly go where no plant has yet been found. 
  • Toward a trophic theory of species diversity. 
  • Transparent animals. 
  • Trends in tuna carbon isotopes suggest global changes in pelagic phytoplankton communities. 
  • Ultra-black Camouflage in Deep-Sea Fishes. 
  • Vertical community patterns of Labyrinthulomycetes protists reveal their potential importance in the oceanic biological pump. 
  • Waveguide invariant focusing for broadband beamforming in an oceanic waveguide. 
  • Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hunt, Dana E., Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Nowacek, Douglas, Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Distinguished Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative