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July 21 - 28, 2013
World Congress of Malacology Azores 2013
Ponta Delgada, Portugal

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Malacologists come from all over the world to share their research and discuss their projects at this conference.

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Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Novel enzyme from tiny gribble could prove a boon for biofuels research
Researchers from the United Kingdom, the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the University of Kentucky have recently published a paper describing a novel cellulose-degrading enzyme from a marine wood borer Limnoria quadripunctata, commonly known as the gribble.
US Department of Energy

Contact: David Glickson
david.glickson@nrel.gov
303-275-4097
DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
The Auk
Bay Area thrushes nest together, winter together, and face change together
Swainson's thrushes, from a local population near Bolinas, Calif., spend their winters together in Mexico, according to a new tracking study released by Point Blue Conservation Science. This result is important because it shows that the conservation of habitat for these local populations in California is tightly linked with climate and habitat changes in Mexico, where these birds spend their winters, 1,600 miles away.

Contact: Renee Cormier
rcormier@pointblue.org
415-868-0655 x316
PRBO Conservation Science

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Geosphere
Geosphere details the geology of North America with 6 new papers online
Each of the six new papers published in Geosphere on June 13 address geoscience compiled in specially themed issues: "CRevolution 2: Origin and Evolution of the Colorado River System II"; "The 36-18 Ma southern Great Basin, USA, ignimbrite province and flareup: Swarms of subduction-related supervolcanoes"; "New Developments in Grenville Geology"; and "Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane."

Contact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
NOAA, partners predict possible record-setting deadzone for Gulf of Mexico
NOAA-supported modelers at the University of Michigan, Louisiana State University, and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium are forecasting that this year's Gulf of Mexico hypoxic "dead" zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles which could place it among the ten largest recorded. A second NOAA-funded forecast, for the Chesapeake Bay, calls for a smaller than average dead zone in the nation's largest estuary.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Geological Survey

Contact: Ben Sherman
ben.sherman@noaa.gov
301-713-3066
NOAA Headquarters

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Water Resources Research
Small dam construction to reduce greenhouse emissions is causing ecosystem disruption
Researchers conclude in a new report that a global push for small hydropower projects, supported by various nations and also the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, may cause unanticipated and potentially significant losses of habitat and biodiversity.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Desiree Tullos
tullosd@engr.orst.edu
541-737-2038
Oregon State University

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Origins of 'The Hoff' crab revealed
The history of a new type of crab, nicknamed 'The Hoff' because of its hairy chest, which lives around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean, has been revealed for the first time.

Contact: University of Oxford Press Office
press.office@admin.ox.ac.uk
44-186-528-3877
University of Oxford

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
Nature Communications
Stone Age technological and cultural innovation accelerated by climate
According to a study by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the University of Cardiff and the Natural History Museum in London, technological innovation during the Stone Age occurred in fits and starts and was climate-driven. Abrupt changes in rainfall in South Africa 40,000 to 80,000 years ago triggered the development of technologies for finding refuge and the behavior of modern humans. This study was recently published in Nature Communications.

Contact: Rainer Zahn
rainer.zahn@uab.cat
34-935-814-861
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Public Release: 17-Jun-2013
EcoHealth
Bullfrogs may help spread deadly amphibian fungus, but also die from it
Amphibian populations are declining worldwide and a major cause is a deadly fungus thought to be spread by bullfrogs, but a two-year study shows they can also die from this pathogen, contrary to suggestions that bullfrogs are a tolerant carrier host that just spreads the disease.

Contact: Andrew Blaustein
blaustea@science.oregonstate.edu
541-737-3705
Oregon State University

Public Release: 17-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Pesticides significantly reduce biodiversity in aquatic environments
The pesticides, many of which are currently used in Europe and Australia, are responsible for reducing the regional diversity of invertebrates in streams and rivers by up to 42 percent, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Helmholtz Association

Contact: Tilo Arnhold
presse@ufz.de
49-341-235-1635
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres

Public Release: 17-Jun-2013
Geology
New 'embryonic' subduction zone found
A new subduction zone forming off the coast of Portugal heralds the beginning of a cycle that will see the Atlantic Ocean close as continental Europe moves closer to America.

Contact: Emily Walker
emily.walker@monash.edu
61-399-034-844
Monash University

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