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Public Release: 22-May-2012
 PLoS ONETrack Atlantic bluefin tuna to learn migration, habitat secrets The availability of miniaturized pop-up satellite tags suitable for smaller (two- to five-year-old) fish helped make the research possible. Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 22-May-2012
WhaleWatch: Satellite tracking to help reduce number of whales entangled in fishing gear A new project aims to reduce the number of whales entangled in fishing gear by identifying the areas they are most likely to visit. WhaleWatch uses satellite data and migration models of gray whales and several endangered species to identify high-risk areas and help develop conservation policies for reducing ship strikes and entanglements off the US West Coast. Gray whales are the species most often hit by ships and entangled in fishing gear. 
NASA, US Geological Survey, National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Smithsonian Institution/Climate and Biological Response program
Contact: Amy Pelsinsky
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society BNot a 1-way street: Evolution shapes environment of Connecticut lakes Environmental change is the selective force that preserves adaptive traits in organisms and is a primary driver of evolution. However, it is less well known that evolutionary change in organisms also trigger fundamental changes in the environment. Yale University researchers found a prime example of this evolutionary feedback loop in a few lakes in Connecticut, where dams built 300 years ago in Colonial times trapped a fish called the alewife. Contact: Bill Hathaway
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society BHuman-like spine morphology found in aquatic eel fossil For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel suggests that this complex anatomy arose separately from -- and perhaps before -- the first species to walk on land.
National Science Foundation, Palaeontological Association, Paleontological Society, American Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, Evolving Earth Foundation
Contact: Rob Mitchum
Public Release: 22-May-2012
Nature CommunicationsNew means of safeguarding world fish stocks proven Powerful and versatile new genetic tools that will assist in safeguarding both European fish stocks and European consumers is reported in Nature Communications. The paper reports on the first system proven to identify populations of fish species to a forensic level of validation.
European Union
Contact: Elinor Elis-Williams
Public Release: 21-May-2012
BiogeosciencesNew study by WHOI scientists provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provides data that will help researchers better understand the Arctic Ocean's carbon cycle -- the pathway through which carbon enters and is used by the marine ecosystem.
WHOI Arctic Research Initiative, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian International Polar Year Office, National Science Foundation
Contact: WHOI Media Relations Office
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Science of the Total EnvironmentMercury in dolphins: Study compares toxin levels in captive and wild sea mammals A small pilot study found higher levels of toxic mercury in dolphins downwind of power plants than in captive dolphins.
National Aquarium, Johns Hopkins University/Center for Contaminant Transport Fate and Remediation
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Florida Tech biological sciences professor earns $257,000 NSF grant to study coral diseases The project will develop quantitative approaches to assess the clustering of infectious and non-infectious coral diseases, which are decimating the corals. When diseases cluster they are usually contagious; When not, there is usually a secondary cause of infection.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Rhine
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Nature GeoscienceToxic mercury, accumulating in the Arctic, springs from a hidden source Environmental scientists at Harvard have discovered that the Arctic accumulation of mercury, a toxic element, is caused by both atmospheric forces and the flow of circumpolar rivers that carry the element north into the Arctic Ocean. While the atmospheric source was previously recognized, it now appears that twice as much mercury actually comes from the rivers. The revelation implies that concentrations of the toxin may further increase as climate change continues to modify the region's hydrological cycle and release mercury from warming Arctic soils.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRicher parasite diversity leads to healthier frogs, says University of Colorado study Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new University of Colorado Boulder study.
National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Pieter Johnson
Public Release: 21-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSquid ink from Jurassic period identical to modern squid ink, U.Va. study shows An international team of researchers, including a University of Virginia professor, has found that two ink sacs from 160-million-year-old giant squid fossils discovered 2 years ago in England contain the pigment melanin, and that it is essentially identical to the melanin found in the ink sacs of modern-day squid. Contact: Fariss Samarrai
Public Release: 18-May-2012
GSA BulletinMay GSA Bulletin postings take global geology tour GSA Bulletin papers posted online 3-18 May 2012 cover a variety of locations: the Coast Range basalt province, southwest Washington State, USA; the Faroe Islands of the northeast Atlantic margin; Wairarapa fault, North Island, New Zealand; the eastern Mediterranean Sea offshore of southern Crete; the southern central Andes of Argentina; the Adriatic Carbonate Platform of southwest Slovenia; the Atacama Desert, Chile; Questa caldera, northern New Mexico, USA; the Norwegian Caledonides; and Lake Tahoe, USA. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 18-May-2012
Scientific ReportsStanford scientists document fragile land-sea ecological chain Intricate, often invisible chains of life are threatened with extinction around the world. A new study quantifies one of the longest such chains ever documented. Contact: Rob Jordan
Public Release: 18-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFinding fingerprints in sea level rise As described in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, graduate students Eric Morrow and Carling Hay demonstrate the use of a statistical tool called a Kalman smoother to identify "sea level fingerprints" -- tell-tale variations in sea level rise -- in a synthetic data set. Using those fingerprints, scientists can determine where glacial melting is occurring. Contact: Peter Reuell
Public Release: 17-May-2012
LithosphereVisualizing the imprints of past and present Earth dynamics New Lithosphere articles posted online May 16, 2012, report on (1) seismic anisotropy measured beneath 14 broadband stations in southeastern India; why geoscientists should persist in their efforts to reach and study such spectacular sub-sea geologic features as the Mariana Trench (recently explored by film director James Cameron) and how "land geologists" can help this effort by studying on-land equivalents like ophiolites; and (3) pressures and melting temperatures of sediments deeply buried in Earth's mantle. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 16-May-2012
Nature CommunicationsFreshwater crayfish found to have substance covering teeth astonishingly similar to human enamel A team of Israeli and German scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have found an enamel-like layer in the mandibles of freshwater crayfish, according to an article in Nature Communications. Contact: Andrew Lavin
Public Release: 16-May-2012
Ecology LettersUSF study: Common fungicide wreaks havoc on freshwater ecosystems A new University of South Florida study on chlorothalonil, one of the world's most common fungicides, shows it was lethal to a wide variety of freshwater organisms.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Vickie Chachere
Public Release: 16-May-2012
PLoS ONEMovement patterns of endangered turtle vary from Pacific to Atlantic The movement patterns of critically endangered leatherback turtles vary greatly depending on whether the animals live in the North Atlantic or the Eastern Pacific, with implications for feeding behavior and population recovery, according to research published May 16 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Contact: Lindsay Morton
Public Release: 15-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesUMD finding may hold key to Gaia hypothesis Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts?
NASA, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contact: Lee Tune
Public Release: 15-May-2012
Journal of Archaeological ScienceSulphur and iron compounds common in old shipwrecks Sulphur and iron compounds have now been found in shipwrecks both in the Baltic and off the west coast of Sweden. The group behind the results, presented in the Journal of Archaeological Science, includes scientists from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University. Contact: Yvonne Fors
Public Release: 15-May-2012
Undersea warriors, undersea medicine: The future force U.S. Navy divers take on dangerous tasks every day -- and starting this week, they will be part of a multinational effort near Estonia to help clear the Baltic Sea of underwater mines left over from as long ago as the First and Second World Wars. It's all part of a day's work for US Navy divers, who in addition to hazardous missions face natural perils like oxygen toxicity and decompression sickness every day.
US Office of Naval Research
Contact: Peter Vietti
Public Release: 15-May-2012
PLoS ONEElephant seal tracking reveals hidden lives of deep-diving animals Researchers at UC Santa Cruz who pioneered the use of satellite tags to monitor the migrations of elephant seals have compiled one of the largest datasets available for any marine mammal species, revealing their movements and diving behavior at sea in unprecedented detail.
Office of Naval Research, International Association of Oil and Gas Producers
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 15-May-2012
New museum-university partnership ushers in new era of environmental science education Drexel environmental science students will have a breadth of new research and academic opportunities locally and across the globe as a result of the University's unique academic affiliation with the Academy of Natural Sciences. Out of the affiliation comes the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, where students will work and learn among some of the world's leading scientists and have access to the Academy's extensive natural science collections and community outreach programs. Contact: Rachel Ewing
Public Release: 15-May-2012
Ducks Unlimited Canada and Canadian Light Source partnership to shed light on wetlands Using the power of synchrotron light to better understand and protect Canada's wetlands is the objective of an agreement signed today between Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Canadian Light Source , Canada's national synchrotron facility. Under the agreement, Native Plants Solutions, DUC's environmental consulting division, will have access to the CLS's synchrotron science techniques. Contact: Matthew Dalzell
Public Release: 14-May-2012
Environmental Biology of FishesGrowing risks from hatchery fish A newly published collection of more than 20 studies by leading university scientists and government fishery researchers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Russia and Japan provides mounting evidence that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat. Contact: Pete Rand
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