Sentences with phrase «marine ecologist»
A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies how living organisms in the ocean interact with each other and their environment. They research and protect marine life, ecosystems, and overall health of the ocean. Full definition
A team of marine ecologists at Oregon State University has determined that the increased occurrence of dead zones may be directly tied to global warming.
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«It eats about everything,» says marine ecologist Mark Bertness of Brown University.
Paul is an experienced marine ecologist with a great deal of South Atlantic expertise.
«It's been shown now from cases right across the world, from the Caribbean and from the Pacific and Southeast Asia,» says marine ecologist Mark Spalding, lead author of the UNEP coral atlas.
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris), sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus polyacanthus), and kelp (Laminaria spp. and Agarum cribrosum) cascade reported by marine ecologist James Estes in Alaska provides a classic example.
Now, marine ecologists working off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula have shown that a sudden 1 °C rise in seawater temperature — a change expected to arrive within half a century — drastically alters ocean communities.
But in 1999, one of marine ecologist Mark Butler's graduate students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, noticed that some young lobsters were lethargic and had become isolated from other animals.
The land is dry and brown,» said study author Nadia Al - Mudaffar Fawzi, an Iraqi marine ecologist who returned from New Zealand to the city of her birth in 2009 to teach and conduct research at the University of Basrah.
«This is important research to identify the causative agents of these environmental scourges,» says marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens.
After a decade of collecting and compiling data, Canadian marine ecologist Boris Worm expresses concern for these keystone species: «I feel that sharks are the most endangered marine wildlife we have right now.»
In the upper 3,200 feet of the ocean, as many as 90 percent of the creatures are bioluminescent, says Laurence Madin, a pioneering marine ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
On page 1432 of this week's issue of Science, marine ecologists describe a three - way partnership — between seagrasses, lucinid clams, and bacteria living in the clams — that likely keeps toxic sediments from building up and killing the seagrass.
After quitting his university job in 1993, Olson went to film school and teamed up with one of his heroes, renowned marine ecologist Jeremy Jackson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
About 4 years ago, McEntee said that McNutt teamed up with marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco to co-host the first women's networking session at the AGU annual meeting.
Phytoplankton play key roles in several chemical and nutrient cycles, including taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and either cycling it through food chains or sequestering it in the deep sea, says marine ecologist David Hutchins of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the current study.
Planetary geologist Sara Mazrouei misses out on a dream opportunity — because of where she was born, and marine ecologist Madhavi Colton faces down despair as the challenges of conservation overwhelm her.
Marine ecologist Robert Pitman observed a particularly dramatic example of this behavior back in 2009, while observing a pod of killer whales hunting a Weddell seal trapped on an ice floe off Antarctica.
«It's fantastic — I love it when the ice wins and we don't,» said expedition marine ecologist Tracy Rogers.
Nest temperatures greater than roughly 29 ° Celsius tip the ratio toward more female hatchlings, explains marine ecologist Graeme Hays of Deakin University in Warrnambool, Australia.
«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.
«This information can help marine ecologists to design optimum plans to protect these areas from deep ocean mining,» Mitarai said.
Marine ecologist Carlos Duarte of Saudi Arabia's Abdullah University thinks so.
But marine ecologist Enric Sala of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and others warn that even targeted marine reserves likely aren't not enough to resuscitate dwindling populations without more stringent overall limitations on fishing.
The long - term challenge, says marine ecologist Paul Snelgrove of Memorial University of Newfoundland, will be to continue investigating the ecological significance of the newfound organisms after the primary census is completed in 2010.
Last fall marine ecologist Vincent Zintzen of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa published a study describing the first - ever observations of hagfish exploiting those glands to ward off predators.
Migrant humpbacks returning to southeastern Alaska in spring are the first of their kind known to make routine visits to fish hatcheries releasing young salmon into the sea, says marine ecologist Ellen Chenoweth.
But there isn't much time to act, warns marine ecologist Mark Baumgartner of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
«Marine ecologists study the effects of giant kelp on groups of organisms in the underwater forest ecosystem.»
Charles Sheppard, a tropical marine ecologist at the University of Warwick in England, says a warming spike in 1998 killed nearly all the coral in the reefs that ring the islands.
«We're in a period where the oceans are changing very quickly,» says marine ecologist Kim Juniper of Canada's University of Victoria, who oversees NEPTUNE's scientific research.
Marine ecologist Terry Hughes talks about the ongoing bleaching of the world's most famous coral reef
In 2007, marine ecologist Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute led an expedition to the Larsen B ice shelf to study the seafloor that had emerged from its ice shadow five years earlier.
Marine ecologist Daniel Kamykowski of North Carolina State University in Raleigh cautions that the study was conducted in a laboratory and not in the marine environment, but welcomes the findings nonetheless.
«People suspected that one of the roles of the toxins is to immobilize prey,» says marine ecologist Diane Stoecker of the University of Maryland's Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, Maryland, who was not involved in the research.
Marine ecologist Anson Hines of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, concurs that live seafood is a potential avenue for introductions of invasive species.
Anyone intrigued by toxic algal blooms — more commonly called red tides, although they're neither tide - driven nor always red — can turn to the eclectic Harmful Algae Page, started 4 years ago by marine ecologist Donald Anderson of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
Marine ecologist John Chapman first suspected that the seafood trade could be contributing to the problem when students brought him fresh clam shells collected from remote California beaches.
Learning from the Octopus By Rafe Sagarin The riotously biodiverse tide pools of California's central coast do not bear much resemblance to the risk - averse halls of Washington, D.C., but marine ecologist Rafe Sagarin, who has made a close study of both, hopes to change that.
What we can hope to do is to set up these pockets of reproductive colonies,» says marine ecologist Diego Lirman at the University of Miami.
In San Francisco Bay, marine ecologists Jim Carlton of the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport and Andrew Cohen of the San Francisco Estuary Institute have discovered more than 250 nonindigenous species.
It seems that the plankton, which love low - oxygen waters, have made a happy home in the increasingly oxygen - poor Arabian Sea, says marine ecologist Joaquim Goes of Columbia University.
To arrive at a more certain answer, marine ecologist Camilo Mora examined life's diversity at higher levels of taxonomy (genus, family, order, et cetera).
In response to mounting criticism of the overly broad use of this popular term, marine ecologist Bruce Menge defined a keystone species as «one of several predators in a community that alone determines most patterns of prey community structure, including distribution, abundance, composition, size, and diversity.»
Although marine ecologists have been measuring local seagrass loss for decades, they had never before pooled their information to get a global perspective.
Ultimately, Hind teamed up with marine ecologist Brett Favaro of the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada to conduct the more rigorous #SciSpends survey, which they formally launched 30 March.
Marine ecologist Nigel Hussey would like to know whether white sharks out in the central Pacific reload their livers to some extent to fuel the journey back to California.
That's why marine ecologist Rodney Rountree, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, decided to turn a few mp3 players into waterproof, deep - sea recording devices.
«We knew a lot of work had been done on the island, but we didn't have a full picture of how many species there were,» said the new study's lead author, marine ecologist Oliver Hogg.