Jay Stachowicz, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology, is recipient of the 2023-24 UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement. (TJ Ushing, UC Davis) When ...
Marine and estuarine ecology examines how physical dynamics, chemical gradients and biological interactions shape organisms from microbes to megafauna in coastal and open‐water environments. Estuaries ...
Lisa C. McManus, a theoretical marine ecologist in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, was named a 2025 ...
A marine protection method described this week proposes spreading marine protection from areas where wildlife tourism already discourages activities that damage or degrade ecosystems, like fishing or ...
Scientists issued a warning due to record-breaking temperatures in 2023 which accelerated the speed of the second-largest mass coral bleaching event across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...
An enormous marine heatwave off the US west coast is ringing alarm bells among ocean and atmospheric scientists as new data ...
A scorching marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 devastated the Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and triggering mass die-offs, migrations, and fishery collapses. Researchers ...
To the editor: I am a marine ecologist who has focused on the “critters” living in and on soft sediments on continental shelves. I’ve studied the current state of knowledge of these ecosystems and ...
On January 23, 2026, a rare seabird from the Galapagos turned up roughly 3,000 miles from home, spotted from a research vessel off the California coast. The sighting drew an audible cheer from marine ...
A new approach to better assessing whale population data has emerged, led by a research team of marine biologists from ...
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