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Watch a harbor seal colony in La Jolla, California: Seal Cam. This resource is provided by the Western Alliance for Nature Conservancy.
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Video: Using a "patient monitoring" device attached to a whale entangled in fishing gear, scientists showed for the first time how fishing lines changed a whale's diving and swimming behavior. See the video 
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Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
 Journal of Geophysical Research: BiogeosciencesStudy: Source of organic matter affects Bay water quality A study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that organic carbon in runoff from urbanized landscapes is more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing to low-oxygen "dead zones" in coastal waters. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Malmquist
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
PLOS ONEInsights into deadly coral bleaching could help preserve reefs Coral reefs are stressed because of climate change. Researchers from Northwestern University and The Field Museum of Natural History have discovered corals themselves play a role in their susceptibility to deadly coral bleaching due to the light-scattering properties of their skeletons. No one else has shown this before. Using optical technology designed for early cancer detection, the researchers discovered that reef-building corals scatter light in different ways to the symbiotic algae that feed the corals.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesIsraeli scientists discover why soft corals have unique pulsating motion Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work, which resolves an old scientific mystery, appears in the current issue of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US).
Israel National Science Foundation
Contact: Jerry Barach
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsSea turtles inspire beach-walking robot A sea turtle-inspired robot has been created by a group of researchers in the US to help understand the mechanics of walking and crawling on complex surfaces. Contact: Michael Bishop
Public Release: 23-Apr-2013
Bioinspiration & BiomimeticsBaby sea turtles and flipper-driven robot reveal principles of moving on sand Based on a study of both hatchling sea turtles and "FlipperBot" -- a robot with flippers -- researchers have learned principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such as sand.
National Science Foundation, Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
Atlantic cod in for even more stress? Researchers have known for some years that the Atlantic cod beats the retreat in the direction of the Arctic when the waters in its traditional habitat become too warm. In summer, shoals from the Atlantic Ocean, for example, are now moving up as far as Spitsbergen into the waters the Arctic cod calls its own. Contact: Sina Loeschke
Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
PLOS ONEStudy shows reproductive effects of pesticide exposure span generations North Carolina State University researchers studying aquatic organisms called Daphnia have found that exposure to a chemical pesticide has impacts that span multiple generations -- causing the so-called "water fleas" to produce more male offspring, and causing reproductive problems in female offspring.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 22-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesBiological activity alters the ability of sea spray to seed clouds Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence their ability to form clouds over the ocean. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists using a new approach to study tiny atmospheric particles called aerosols that can influence climate by absorbing or reflecting sunlight and seeding clouds.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Brown
Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
ScienceMassive amounts of charcoal enter the worlds' oceans Wild fire residue is washed out of the soil and transported to the sea by rivers. Contact: Dr. Manfred Schloesser
Public Release: 19-Apr-2013
PLOS Currents Tree of LifeSomething's fishy in the tree of life A team of scientists led by Richard Broughton, associate professor of biology at the University of Oklahoma, published two studies that dramatically increase understanding of fish evolution and their relationships. They integrated extensive genetic and physical information about specimens to create a new "tree of life" for fishes. The vast amount of data generated through large-scale DNA sequencing required supercomputing resources for analysis. The result is the largest and most comprehensive studies of fish phylogeny to date.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Richard Broughton
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