News tagged with monterey bay

Whole Foods to stop sale of unsustainable seafood

(AP) -- Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface

Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study reveals sex life of deep-sea squid

The sex life of Octopoteuthis deletron -- O. deletron, if you prefer -- is a cruelly hit-or-miss affair, according to candid footage of the deep-sea squid in its element, unveiled Wednesday.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Paternity testing helps fill in family tree for Puget Sound's killer whales

In a study published online this month in the Journal of Heredity, NOAA researchers and others, using DNA testing to fill in a missing link in the lives of killer whales that seasonally visit Washington's Puget Sound, have d ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The great Gulf oil spill: Stanford experts explain what went wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- How could it happen? The details of the Deepwater Horizon disaster will be thrashed out in a public talk Tuesday evening by three Stanford experts: geophysicist Mark Zoback, Law School lecturer ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Harmful algal blooms in Monterey Bay found by multi-institutional experiment

A small fleet of ships and robotic submersibles are performing a kind of water ballet in northern Monterey Bay this month, observing and following the evolution and consequences of algal blooms as part of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists aim to predict toxic algal blooms in California's coastal waters

(PhysOrg.com) -- After years of studying and monitoring harmful algal blooms in California's coastal waters, Raphael Kudela is trying to predict when toxin-producing algae will strike again. A professor of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists find ancient asphalt domes off California coast

They paved paradise and, it turns out, actually did put up a parking lot. A big one. Some 700 feet deep in the waters off California's jewel of a coastal resort, Santa Barbara, sits a group of football-field-sized ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 25, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

When the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibs (w/ Video)

Surplus food can be a double-edged sword for bottom-feeders in the ocean deep, according to a new study in the April issue of Ecology. While extra nutrients give a boost to large animals on the deep sea fl ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google Earth dives into oceans and WW II

Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat

With a new theory surfacing that toxic algae rather than asteroids killed the dinosaurs, scientists are still trying to unravel the mystery of what caused a massive algae bloom off the Northwest Coast that left thousands ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms

The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins

Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successfully conducted the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin below ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis

Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1