The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

“Once things had settled down after the disaster, our priority was to find out what had happened to the ecosystems in the sea,” says Tomohiko Kawamura, a marine benthic invertebrate ecologist ...

From fake news and online troll farms to terrorist financing and paramilitary provocations, these approaches often lie in the contested arena somewhere between routine statecraft and open warfare—the ...

The global science community is watching the problem of oxygen depletion in marine and coastal areas with growing concern. Over the last few years the number of known dead zones globally has increased ...

What are the legal challenges of deep-sea mining and why cannot the world wait any longer to deal with them? — THE ...

This process is common in warm seasons. The number, intensity, and duration of these hypoxic zones are exacerbated by warming temperatures. Deoxygenation is causing a wide range of effects on marine ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 13, 2024) – Pamela Hallock, a biogeological oceanographer and distinguished university professor at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, typically finds ...

It was known from fossil-fuel records that some sharks expanded from the benthic zone to the pelagic zone ... to predict exactly how sharks, or other marine life, will respond to current warming ...

This 80-million-year-old deep-sea dweller ranges from the pelagic to the benthic ... (midnight) zones. "As far as we know, they are primarily scavengers," Ruth Carmichael, senior marine scientist ...

Biology (BIOL) and marine biology (MARI) are the two subject areas offered for majors and minors in the Department of Biology. Generally, all BIOL and MARI majors must take introductory biology and ...