"The findings emphasize the need for conservation strategies." Researchers issue warning after observing major threat to ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 86,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 9,000+ species from ...

Known as the Benthic Rover II, the deep-sea autonomous vehicle was designed by a team at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). For the past seven years, it has been continually in use ...

Benthic foraminifera are widely used as paleoenvironmental proxies because of their high sensitivity to environmental changes and excellent preservation potential in sediment. Affected by global ...

A mat of benthic green and blue-green algae removed from the bottom of the Shenandoah River was collected during a harmful algal bloom. This type of algae was first found in the Columbia River in late ...

Our team investigates questions in marine benthic ecology, with a common interest in marine conservation related issues. Research lines include disturbance ecology, spatial ecology, biodiversity and ...

Oceanography, Vol. 25, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE ON ANTARCTIC OCEANOGRAPHY IN A CHANGING WORLD (SEPTEMBER 2012), pp. 188-201 (14 pages) ABSTRACTThe West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) shelf is deep and detritus ...

Physics of flow above the sediment-water interface / W. Brian Dade, Andrew J. Hogg, and Bernard P. Boudreau -- Fine-scale flow measurements in the benthic boundary layer / Arzhang Khalili, Markus ...

For decades, public health messaging around toxic algae blooms in Oregon and Washington have painted a clear picture of what to avoid: warm, stagnant lakes and ponds where planktonic algae colonies ...