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Public Release: 21-Sep-2012
 ScienceUnusual symbiosis discovered in marine microorganisms Scientists have discovered an unusual symbiosis between tiny single-celled algae and highly specialized bacteria in the ocean. The partnership plays an important role in fertilizing the oceans by taking nitrogen from the atmosphere and "fixing" it into a form that other organisms can use. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 20-Sep-2012
PLOS ONENew turtle tracking technique may aid efforts to save loggerhead The old adage "you are what you eat" is helping scientists better understand the threatened loggerhead turtle, which is the primary nester on Central Florida's beaches.
Florida's Sea Turtle Grants Program
Contact: Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala
Public Release: 20-Sep-2012
Journal of PhycologyDNA analysis aids in classifying single-celled algae For nearly 260 years -- since Carl Linnaeus developed his system of naming plants and animals -- researchers classified species based on visual attributes like color, shape and size. In the past few decades, researchers found that sequencing DNA can more accurately identify species. A group of single-celled algae -- Symbiodinum -- that live inside corals and are critical to their survival -- are only now being separated into species using DNA analysis, according to biologists.
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 20-Sep-2012
Novel plastic-and-papyrus restoration project Environmental scheme funded by the German REWE Group aims to create "floating islands" of recycled plastic bottles, containing the plant used to make the first paper Contact: Dr. David M. Harper
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
PLOS ONEThe 'slippery slope to slime': Overgrown algae causing coral reef declines Researchers for the first time have confirmed some of the mechanisms by which overfishing and nitrate pollution can help destroy coral reefs -- it appears they allow an overgrowth of algae that can bring with it unwanted pathogens, choke off oxygen and disrupt helpful bacteria.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rebecca Vega-Thurber
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
GeologyGEOLOGY adds 30 new articles online This month, GSA's top geoscience journal, Geology, has posted 30 new articles ahead of print. Locations studied include Bhutan; the James Bay Lowland of Canada; Mount Taranaki, New Zealand; Fort Stanton Cave and Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico, USA; the Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru; the Nile Delta; and Mars. Topics include methane hydrates, microbial micro-tunneling, fibrous diamonds, climate change, cosmic rays, and maars. Also in Geology: the first application of CARS microscopy to the geosciences. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
PalaeontologyCT scan and 3-D print help scientists reconstruct an ancient mollusk Using a combination of traditional and innovative model-building techniques, scientists in the US and a specialist in Denmark have created a lifelike reconstruction of an ancient mollusk, a multiplacophoran, offering a vivid portrait of a creature that lived about 390 million years ago, and answering questions about its place in the tree of life, as described in the Sept. 18 edition of the journal Palaeontology. A video on the reconstruction is available. Contact: J.B. Bird
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
NatureOyster genome uncover the stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation Chinese scientists report oyster genome uncover the stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation. Contact: Jia Liu
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
Journal Of Quaternary ScienceDid a 'forgotten' meteor have a deadly, icy double-punch? When a huge meteor collided with Earth about 2.5 million years ago and fell into the southern Pacific Ocean it not only could have generated a massive tsunami but also may have plunged the world into the Ice Ages, a new study suggests. Contact: Bob Beale
Public Release: 19-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesWarming ocean could start big shift of Antarctic ice Fast-flowing and narrow glaciers have the potential to trigger massive changes in the Antarctic ice sheet and contribute to rapid ice-sheet decay and sea-level rise, a new study has found. Contact: Bob Beale
Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
Physical Review ECU mathematicians show how shallow water may help explain tsunami power While wave watching is a favorite pastime of beach-goers, few notice what is happening in the shallowest water. A closer look by two University of Colorado Boulder applied mathematicians has led to the discovery of interacting X- and Y-shaped ocean waves that may help explain why some tsunamis are able to wreak so much havoc. Contact: Mark Ablowitz
Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
Sea surface temperatures reach record highs on Northeast continental shelf During the first six months of 2012, sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem were the highest ever recorded, according to the latest Ecosystem Advisory issued by NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center. The annual 2012 spring plankton bloom was intense, started earlier and lasted longer than average. This has implications for marine life from the smallest creatures to the largest marine mammals like whales. Atlantic cod continued to shift northeastward from its historic distribution center.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
Learning from each other -- growing together Kiel University and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada want to work more closely together in the future. With this benchmark partnership, which is part of Kiel's quality management and internationalization strategy, the two universities are trying out a completely new form of international collaboration. Contact: Dr. Boris Pawlowski
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Geological Society of America BulletinSummer Geoscience from GSA Bulletin GSA Bulletin papers posted online from 20 July through 14 September 2012 elaborate on geoscience from Algeria, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Nova Scotia, Switzerland, New Mexico, and the U.S. Rocky Mountains. Topics include tectonics, mineral formation, the Moho, age dating using zircon crystals, the Code of Stratigraphic Nomenclature, atmospheric CO2, and early animal evolution. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Studies of Desoto canyon and shelf in Gulf of Mexico uncover upwelling during Hurricane Isaac As Hurricane Isaac barreled toward New Orleans, a team led by University of Miami (UM) Professor and Deep-C (Deep Sea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico) Co-Principal Investigator Nick Shay was planning NOAA's P-3 aircraft missions to fly into the storm.
Deep-C - Gulf of Mexico Reserach Institute
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, UM Rosenstiel School
Public Release: 16-Sep-2012
Nature Climate ChangeMost coral reefs are at risk unless climate change is drastically limited Coral reefs face severe challenges even if global warming is restricted to the two degrees Celsius commonly perceived as safe for many natural and man-made systems. Warmer sea surface temperatures are likely to trigger more frequent and more intense mass coral bleaching events. Contact: Mareike Schodder
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Biology LettersSurviving without ice Some crustaceans, previously thought to spend their entire lives on the underside of Arctic sea ice, were recently discovered to migrate deep underwater and follow ocean currents back to colder areas when the ice melts.
Research Council of Norway, US-Norway Fulbright Program
Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippett
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
2012 International Water Association's World Water CongressUA engineering professor Shane Snyder to speak in Korea on international water quality University of Arizona professor Shane Snyder, who earlier this year won best paper honors from the American Water Works Association (AWWA), has been invited to present in Korea this month to an expected audience of 3,500 at the 2012 International Water Association's (IWA) World Water Congress. Contact: Steve Delgado
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
ScienceLong menopause allows killer whales to care for adult sons Scientists have found the answer to why female killer whales have the longest menopause of any non-human species - to care for their adult sons. Led by the Universities of Exeter and York and published in the journal Science the research shows that, for a male over 30, the death of his mother means an almost 14-fold-increase in the likelihood of his death within the following year.
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Earthwatch
Contact: Sarah Hoyle
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Environmental Science & TechnologyAt least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by gulf bacteria Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that, over a period of five months following the disastrous 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, naturally-occurring bacteria that exist in the Gulf of Mexico consumed and removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas that spewed into the deep Gulf from the ruptured well head. See video interview with co-author here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vb7rvWvTjA&feature=youtu.be.
National Science Foundation, NOAA, and others
Contact: Leonor Sierra
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
HydrobiologiaA minute crustacean invades the red swamp crayfish The small ostracod Ankylocythere sinuosa measures no more than half a millimeter in length and lives on other crayfish. And, Spanish scientists have discovered it for the first time in Europe. The finding suggests that it arrived along with the invader crayfish Procambarus clarkii some 30 years ago but it is still unknown whether it can invade other crustacean species or whether it benefits or damages the expansion of the already established red swamp crayfish. Contact: SINC Team
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
King's to develop unique sunscreen with Aethic King's College London has entered into an agreement with skincare company Aethic to develop the first sunscreen based on MAA's (mycosporine-like amino acids), produced by coral. Contact: Emma Reynolds
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
National herpetology society honors UT Arlington professor for discoveries The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists has given the Henry S. Fitch Award for Excellence in Herpetology to a UT Arlington professor. Contact: Traci Peterson
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Renewable EnergyPredicting wave power could double marine-based energy Prof. George Weiss of Tel Aviv University says that his new computer algorithm improves the functioning of Wave Energy Converters used in producing electrical energy from ocean waves. And, with improvements in the converters themselves, it could make marine-based energy more commercially viable. Contact: George Hunka
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
IUCN World Conservation Congress100 most threatened species Tarzan's chameleon, the spoon-billed sandpiper and the pygmy three-toed sloth have all topped a new list of the species closest to extinction released today (Tuesday, Sept. 11 by the Zoological Society of London and the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Contact: Smita Chandra
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