Seawater

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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 critical body residue approach for predicting persistent bioaccumulative toxicant effects on reproduction and population dynamics of meiobenthic copepods. 
  • A suite of microplate reader-based colorimetric methods to quantify ammonium, nitrate, orthophosphate and silicate concentrations for aquatic nutrient monitoring. 
  • A three-stage symbiosis forms the foundation of seagrass ecosystems. 
  • A waveguide invariant adaptive matched filter for active sonar target depth classification. 
  • Abiotic stress mediates top-down and bottom-up control in a Southwestern Atlantic salt marsh. 
  • Abundance and genetic diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria of coastal regions of the pacific ocean. 
  • Abundance and molecular diversity of thraustochytrids in coastal waters of southern China. 
  • An Ultrahigh Precision, High-Frequency Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Analyzer Based on Dual Isotope Dilution and Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. 
  • An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. 
  • Annual Partitioning Patterns of Labyrinthulomycetes Protists Reveal Their Multifaceted Role in Marine Microbial Food Webs. 
  • Anthropogenic modification of New England salt marsh landscapes. 
  • Bacterial contamination associated with estuarine shoreline development 
  • Barnacle reattachment: a tool for studying barnacle adhesion. 
  • Benthic and pelagic pathways of methylmercury bioaccumulation in estuarine food webs of the northeast United States. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Comparison of water-energy trajectories of two major regions experiencing water shortage. 
  • Contrasting seasonal drivers of virus abundance and production in the North Pacific Ocean. 
  • Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. 
  • Culturing and Multiplexed Time-Lapse Imaging of Fungal Isolates from Marine and Coastal Environments. 
  • Deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystem research during the census of marine life decade and beyond: a proposed deep-ocean road map. 
  • Different routes to the same ending: comparing the N-glycosylation processes of Haloferax volcanii and Haloarcula marismortui, two halophilic archaea from the Dead Sea. 
  • Distribution and diversity of planktonic fungi in the West Pacific Warm Pool. 
  • Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise. 
  • Diversity and detection of nitrate assimilation genes in marine bacteria. 
  • Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. 
  • Dynamic surface deformation of silicone elastomers for management of marine biofouling: laboratory and field studies using pneumatic actuation. 
  • Early inductive interactions are involved in restricting cell fates of mesomeres in sea urchin embryos. 
  • Effects of Toxic Leachate from Commercial Plastics on Larval Survival and Settlement of the Barnacle Amphibalanus amphitrite. 
  • Environmental stability impacts the differential sensitivity of marine microbiomes to increases in temperature and acidity. 
  • Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates. 
  • FenyMon: ferry-based monitoring and assessment of human and climatically driven environmental change in the Albemarle-Pamlico sound system. 
  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. 
  • Fleet behavior is responsive to a large-scale environmental disturbance: Hypoxia effects on the spatial dynamics of the northern Gulf of Mexico shrimp fishery. 
  • Fungal farming in a snail. 
  • Fungi in the Marine Environment: Open Questions and Unsolved Problems. 
  • Genetic and physiological basis of adaptive salt tolerance divergence between coastal and inland Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Genomic Characterization of the Evolutionary Potential of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis Facing Ocean Acidification. 
  • Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. 
  • Giant deep-sea protist produces bilaterian-like traces. 
  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation 
  • High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching. 
  • High phylogenetic diversity and abundance pattern of Labyrinthulomycete protists in the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea. 
  • How does infiltration behavior modify the composition of ambient PM2.5 in indoor spaces? An analysis of RIOPA data. 
  • Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre. 
  • Insensitivity of Diverse and Temporally Variable Particle-Associated Microbial Communities to Bulk Seawater Environmental Parameters. 
  • Isotope and ion selectivity in reverse osmosis desalination: geochemical tracers for man-made freshwater. 
  • Life-cycle energy impacts for adapting an urban water supply system to droughts. 
  • Linking patterns of net community production and marine microbial community structure in the western North Atlantic. 
  • Local adaptation and species segregation in two mussel (Mytilus edulis x Mytilus trossulus) hybrid zones. 
  • Making marine life count: a new baseline for policy. 
  • Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone. 
  • Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates. 
  • Microbial communities across nearshore to offshore coastal transects are primarily shaped by distance and temperature. 
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success. 
  • Molecular characterization of the spatial diversity and novel lineages of mycoplankton in Hawaiian coastal waters. 
  • New insights into the distributions of nitrogen fixation and diazotrophs revealed by high-resolution sensing and sampling methods. 
  • New nitrogen-fixing microorganisms detected in oligotrophic oceans by amplification of Nitrogenase (nifH) genes. 
  • Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients. 
  • Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific. 
  • Novel forms of structural integration between microbes and a hydrothermal vent gastropod from the Indian Ocean. 
  • Occurrence of Vibrio species, beta-lactam resistant Vibrio species, and indicator bacteria in ballast and port waters of a tropical harbor. 
  • Ocean acidification induces distinct transcriptomic responses across life history stages of the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma. 
  • Patchy Blooms and Multifarious Ecotypes of Labyrinthulomycetes Protists and Their Implication in Vertical Carbon Export in the Pelagic Eastern Indian Ocean. 
  • Pharmaceuticals as antifoulants: concept and principles. 
  • Physical stress modifies top-down and bottom-up forcing on plant growth and reproduction in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Prochlorococcus ecotype abundances in the North Atlantic Ocean as revealed by an improved quantitative PCR method. 
  • Prochlorococcus: approved for export. 
  • Propagation and perception of bioluminescence: factors affecting counterillumination as a cryptic strategy. 
  • Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches. 
  • Rearing larvae of sea urchins and sea stars for developmental studies. 
  • Relationship between abundance and specific activity of bacterioplankton in open ocean surface waters. 
  • Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton. 
  • Responses of mud snails from low and high imposex sites to sex pheromones. 
  • Scientists as stakeholders in conservation of hydrothermal vents. 
  • Seafood prices reveal impacts of a major ecological disturbance. 
  • Seasonal influence of scallop culture on nutrient flux, bacterial pathogens and bacterioplankton diversity across estuaries off the Bohai Sea Coast of Northern China. 
  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters 
  • Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration. 
  • Spectral sensitivity of vertically migrating marine copepods. 
  • Strategies among phytoplankton in response to alleviation of nutrient stress in a subtropical gyre. 
  • The Southern Ocean biological response to aeolian iron deposition 
  • The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. 
  • The effect of salinity upon phototaxis and geotaxis in a larval crustacean. 
  • The effects of model polysiloxane and fouling-release coatings on embryonic development of a sea urchin (Arbacia punctulata) and a fish (Oryzias latipes). 
  • The oceans are changing: impact of ocean warming and acidification on biofouling communities. 
  • The water crisis in the gaza strip: prospects for resolution. 
  • Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining. 
  • Towards Quantitative Microbiome Community Profiling Using Internal Standards. 
  • Two sniffing strategies in palinurid lobsters. 
  • Underwater life support based on immobilized oxygen carriers. 
  • Urea tolerance as a molecular adaptation of elasmobranch hemoglobins. 
  • Use of a novel sediment exposure to determine the effects of triclosan on estuarine benthic communities. 
  • Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current 
  • Variable but persistent coexistence of Prochlorococcus ecotypes along temperature gradients in the ocean's surface mixed layer. 
  • Vertical community patterns of Labyrinthulomycetes protists reveal their potential importance in the oceanic biological pump. 
  • Viral and bacterial abundance and production in the Western Pacific Ocean and the relation to other oceanic realms. 
  • Visual acuity in pelagic fishes and mollusks. 
  • Whole-community facilitation regulates biodiversity on Patagonian rocky shores. 
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  • Vengosh, Avner, Nicholas Distinguished Professor of Environmental Quality, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative