In use by oceanographers for about a decade, gliders move up, down, and laterally in a sawtooth pattern through the water by changing their buoyancy and using their wings to provide lift. They are battery powered and quiet — a critical feature.
.
Bills H.R. 69, the Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2013, and H.R. 71, the Coral Reef Conservation Act Reauthorization and Enhancement Amendments of 2013, were introduced January 3rd by Guam’s Democratic delegate Madeleine Z.
.
According to Wyatt Patry of Jellyfish Aquarist, Cubic has just named their North American distributors for their awesome jellyfish tank: Polyp Lab and Xenia Inc, both of which are based in Canada.
Pillar coral, Dendrogyra cylindricus. Image: NOAA
For the last year, we have followed the Standford research on this topic in our blog posts “In search of supercoral” and “Stanford researchers help predict the oceans of the future with a mini-lab.”
Firefly. Photo by Joshin Yamada / Flickr.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2013 — The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.
A basking shark feeding. Photo by NOAA / Flickr.
The basking shark is often referred to as a gentle giant, eating nothing more than plankton with it’s massive mouth. It is the second largest fish with only the whale shark larger than this species. Up
#10: Aquarium Chemistry: Effects of GFO (Granular Ferric Oxide) on 'Trace' Metals Concentrations in Artificial Seawater By Dana Riddle Granular Ferric Oxide (GFO) is popular among reef hobbyists as a means to decrease phosphate levels and subsequently algal...
#10: Palytoxin-containing zoanthids can temporarily - or possibly permanently - blind you Another reason why you should always wear proper personal protective equipment when working in and around your tank - simply rubbing your eye can infect it with palytoxin...
Photo by Derek Keats / Flickr.
Scientists from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology said their survey of mainland China and South China Sea reefs showed alarming degradation.
Aquarium experiments measuring carbonate and bicarbonate usage in the stony coral Porites rus.
Published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal B, researchers are finding out more about how corals calcify both during the day and during the night and what alkalinity components are preferred.