The northern Red Sea between Africa and Asia has acted as a “thermal refugia” that protects marine life from imminent [...]
For this video, we headed to downtown Miami, Florida to visit Dr. Rivah Winter, the Inventor in Residence and Curator of Aquarium Content & Marine Science at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science. On a personal level, I feel that this video may be the single most important video that [...]
MASNA is proud to announce that the Quarter 2, 2018 publication funded by the Dr. Junda Lin Memorial Fund for Publishing Open Access Marine Aquarium Research is now freely available to the public as an open access article. In 2017, MASNA introduced the Dr. Junda Lin Memorial Fund for [...]
The Horniman Museum and Gardens’ pioneering coral reproduction work, Project Coral (as seen on BBC One’s Blue Planet UK, yesterday), has this week taken a step closer to having real-world benefit for coral reef conservation, thanks to international partner The Florida Aquarium. Staff [...]
By any definition, the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s Queensland coast has had a hard time of it recently. Outbreaks of Crown of Thorns Stars, unprecedented levels of bleaching (some reports say 30% of the coral has been damaged or lost), along with outwash from recent floods have [...]
With the success of the first Bula Buddies book under his belt, Walt Smith is hard at work on its sequel. The story has three main characters: an educated leader we call Simeon, a strong young lady called Heidi who has special skills, and Seeker… a courageous scout who is always on the [...]
One of the most wondrous living things on earth is coral. Humans view its diversity and hues as a gorgeous, underwater decoration. But, it is a living organism that supports the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of species in the underwater ecosystem. Man may appreciate its [...]
I came across these the other day and thought I’d share ‘em. This was the first time I’d ever seen a lionfish hunt! I think most folk now know that lionfish from the Indo pacific are making a nuisance of themselves throughout the Caribbean and upwards. With no natural predators, they have [...]