by Morgan Moore | Jun 22, 2015 | Corals, Invertebrates, Science
I’m continuously fascinated by all of the different things that live in our oceans. Sponges are the simplest of the multicellular organisms and also among the oldest, with a fossil record extending back to the last part of the Precambrian period, about 550 million... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 22, 2015 | Conservation, Corals, Reef, Sustainability
A non-native symbiont to live coral (Symbiodinium trenchii) is slowly invading the Caribbean reefs making it harder for corals to calcify, yet protecting against the warmer waters created by climate change.… by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 19, 2015 | Corals, Science, Sustainability
A bit of a duality was discovered when researchers from the Universities of Exeter and Bangor in the UK studied light pollution around coastal settlements. What they found was that light pollution from human coastal settlements can effect change in the ecological flow... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 19, 2015 | Conservation, Fish, Industry
Thats right folks the infamous Caribbean species has made its way all the down the coast to Brazilian waters. A single lionfish was speared off the coast and a team of researchers including scientists from the California Academy of Sciences confirmed species... by Matthew Stansbery | Jun 18, 2015 | Science
Technology is ever-present in the lab as well as the hobby of reef keeping but scientists from Europe are now going to be taking their instruments directly into the field, or reef I should say.…
