| Dec 27 |
Women in higher education
“Katija charts her path as a deep sea scholar” by Lois Elfman |
| Dec 22 |
Discover Magazine (Inkfish blog)
“Dead squid moms are a gift to the ocean floor” by Elizabeth Preston |
| Dec 18 |
Reefcheck News
“Reef Check California launches climate change research project” by Jan Freiwald |
| Dec 14 |
IEEE Earthzine
“In the hunt for ocean treasures, robots lead the way” by Erica Spain |
| Dec 6 |
Stories related to MBARI news release: Unique field survey yields first big-picture view of deep-sea food webs
– Science Sifter, “Who is the top predator of the deep ocean? Video reveals some surprises” (12-6-17)
– The Verge, “Underwater robots reveal the cannibalistic all-you-can-eat-buffet of the deep sea” by Alessandra Potenza (12-14-17)
– National Geographic News, “Deep-sea predators revealed in 30 years of footage” by Sarah Gibbens (12-14-17)
– New York Times, “What eats what: A landlubber’s guide to deep sea dining” by Joanna Klein (12-19-17)
– KION-TV, “Who’s eating who in the Monterey Bay” by Zach Mcintyre (12-20-17)
– SF Gate (via MSN News), “Monterey Bay submarine captures macabre meals of our deep-sea neighbors” by Michelle Robertson (12-23-17)
– Mongabay.com, “Videos unlock secrets of jellyfish as deep-sea killers” (12-24-17)
– WetPixel, “A new study explores the deep sea food chain” by Abi Smigel Mullens (12-27-17) |
| Dec |
Kazoo
“The glowing seas |
| Dec |
Cosmos
“Four beguiling organisms from beneath the waves” by James Mitchell Crow |
| Nov 30 |
National Wildlife
“Up from the depths” by Richard Conniff |
| Nov 7 |
Particle
“Monster fish of the deep” by Alex Dook |
| Nov 5 |
Sierra
“Secrets of the whale shark highway” by Jason Daley |
| Nov 4 |
Epoch Times
“Rare ghost shark filmed for first time” by Chris Jasurek |
| Nov |
Sea Technology
“Microplastics transportable to deep seafloor via fecal pellets” |
| Oct 31 |
Earth Touch News
“Halloween: The deep-sea edition“ |
| Oct 31 |
EarthSky
“Deep-sea nightmares and other ocean spookiness” by Deborah Byrd |
| Oct 30 |
National Geographic Australia
“6 Ghostly animals just in time for halloween” by Liz Langley |
| Oct 21 |
Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Restoring corals in cold waters off Big Sur” by Dan Haifley |
| Oct 18 |
Wired
“The hunt for the brain-eating amoebas of Yellowstone” by Matt Simon |
| Oct 11 |
EOS
“Thirteen innovative ways humans use drones” by JoAnna Wendel [Doesn’t mention MBARI, but describes use of benthic event detectors in Monterey Canyon] |
| Oct 9 |
National Geographic Australia
“The vampire squid is a garbage-eater that collects raining rubbish with living fishing lines.” by Ed Yong [reprint of a Nat Geo US story from 2012] |
| Oct 4 |
International Business Times
“Scientists hunt brain-eating amoeba with a 97% fatality rate” by Aristos Georgiou [Also carried by net news aggregators DeathRattle Sports and Gears of Biz] |
| Sept 10 |
Verge Science
“This creature has been pooping microplastics all over the seafloor.“ |
| Sept 9 |
Santa Cruz Sentinel
“Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard: Monterey Bay Sanctuary turns 25” by Dan Haifley |
| Sept 9 |
Monterey Herald
“In wake of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary 25th anniversary, local leaders remember the fight” by Tom Wright |
| Sept 7 |
Wow in the world (NPR podcast)
“Mucus mansions & pooping plastic“ |
| Sept 6 |
Santa Barbara Independent
“Ocean Trilogy at SBMM–Program of Dance and Science” by Kiki Reyes |
| Sept 1 |
Oceans Deeply
“Researchers discover a whale shark highway“ |
| Aug 25 |
NSF News
“Luminescent ocean drifters hold keys to deep-sea animal adaptations” by Cheryl Dybas |
| Aug 21 |
New York Times
“The deep seas are alive with light” by William J. Broad [Article also carried by several other international papers, including The Hindu] |
| Aug 20 |
The Virginian-Pilot
“Cargo containers lost at sea are hard to count, track” by Robert McCabe |
| Aug 16 |
Stories related to MBARI news release: Larvaceans provide a pathway for transporting microplastics into deep-sea food webs
– Wired, “Plankton ‘mucus houses’ could pull microplastics from the sea” by Eric Niiler (8-16-17)
– Seeker, “Giant larvaceans sweep up and poop out plastic waste in the oceans” by Matt Smith (8-16-17)
– Science News, “Giant larvaceans could be ferrying ocean plastic to the seafloor” by Helen Thompson (8-16-17)
– New Scientist, “Weird creatures are spreading polluting plastic through the sea” by Michael Le Page (8-16-17)
– The Scientist, “Giant plankton may help move plastic pollution to sea floor” by Bob Grant (8-16-17)
– The Verge, “Tiny bits of plastic get to the seafloor by hitching rides on snot palaces” by Alessandra Potenza (8-16-17)
– Daily Mail, “How pollution makes its way to the ocean floor: Deep-sea footage reveals plastic eaten by tiny plankton sinks to the bottom in fecal pellets” by Cecile Borkhataria (8-16-17)
– National Geographic News, “Ocean life eats tons of plastic—Here’s why that matters” by Laura Parker (8-16-17)
– EarthTouch News, “Meet the giant oceanic mucous-creature that eats plastic” by David Moscato (8-16-17)
– PBS Newshour, “Giant plankton eat and transport plastic through the ocean” by Roni Dengler (8-17-17)
– News Deeply, “Meet the plankton that eats microplastic” (8-18-17)
– Inverse, “These sea critters trap and remove microplastics from oceans” by Jacqueline Ronson (8-18-17)
– Boston Globe, “Innovation of the Week: ‘The mucus house’” (8-18-17) |
| Aug 9 |
Los Angeles Times
“Will the Great American Eclipse make animals act strangely? Science says yes” by Deborah Netburn |
| Aug 2 |
The Verge
“How do you make a jellyfish wear an activity tracker?” by Rachel Becker |
| Aug 1 |
Wired
“A lake-dwelling robot fights toxic algae blooms” by Menaka Wilhelm |
| July 29 |
Santa Cruz Sentinel
“MBARI: Visitors see inner workings of ocean science at open house” by Tom Leyde [also carried by Monterey Herald] |
| July 24 |
Stories related to MBARI news release: New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized
– News Deeply, “The discovery that could throw a monkey wrench in deep-sea mining” by Todd Woody (8-2-17) [Picked up by United Press International and reprinted in a number of publications worldwide]
– Scientific American, “Bizarro life-forms inhabiting deep-sea vents may be at risk” by Shannon Hall (8-4-17) |
| July 19 |
PhysOrg
“New robotic lab tracking toxicity of Lake Erie algal bloom” [based on news release from University of Michigan] |
| July 13 |
Paste
“Sustainability Report: High-tech coral reef monitoring” by Margo Pierce |
| July 6 |
BBC – Future
“The giant undersea rivers we know very little about” by Richard Gray |
| June 23 |
Science Friday (NPR)
“The cephalo-inspired technology of the future” [Panel interview including Kakani Katija] |
| June 20 |
Quartz
“In honor of Cephalopod Week, here are eight fantastic facts about octopuses and their ilk” by Corinne Purtill |
| June 13 |
Inside Philanthropy
“How much money has been going to ocean philanthropy? And who’s giving?” by Tate Williams |
| June 5 |
Stories related to MBARI news release: What caused the most toxic algal bloom ever observed in Monterey Bay?
– Monterey Herald, “Research paper IDs cause of 2015 toxic algal bloom in Monterey Bay” by Tom Wright (6-6-17) [Also carried by the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, and the East Bay Times]
– KSBW-TV, “What caused the most toxic algae bloom ever observed in Monterey Bay?” (6-6-17)
– KION-TV, “Moss Landing scientists discover cause of domoic acid” by Steve Fundaro (6-6-17)
– SF Gate, “Mystery of Monterey Bay’s most toxic algal bloom ever solved” by Michelle Robertson (6-9-17)
– Chemistry World, “Ocean chemistry was responsible for 2015 Monterey Bay disaster” by Jamie Durrani (6-28-17) |
| May 24-26 |
California Report
“Guess these sounds from a special underwater microphone” by
Tiffany Camhi [Three-part radio series–part 1, part 2, part 3] |
| May 3 |
Stories related to MBARI news release:Lasers shed light on the inner workings of the giant larvacean
– New York Times, “In disposable mucus houses, these zooplankton filter the oceans” by Steph Yin (5-3-17)
– Scientific American, “Slime houses of pinky-size plankton cycle carbon” by Lydia Chain (5-3-17)
– Seeker, “Pinky-sized marine animal breaks record for ocean filtration” by Jen Viegas (5-3-17)
– The Verge, “Meet the snot-dwelling sea creatures who help move food through the ocean” by Rachel Becker (5-3-17)
– Newsy (ABC news), “Filter-feeding plankton clean carbon out of the oceans” by Evan Thomas (5-3-17)
– Science News, “Sea creatures’ sticky ‘mucus houses’ catch ocean carbon really fast” by Susan Milius (5-4-17)
– Science Friday (NPR), “The house that snot built” interview by Christie Taylor (5-5-17)
– BBC News, Two interviews with Kakani Katija (5-7-17)
– Quartz, “This gorgeous deep-sea creature can filter atmospheric carbon and bury it in the ocean” by Michael Tabb (5-8-17)
– Mental Floss, “How blobs of sea snot help keep our oceans clean” by Kate Horowitz (5-9-17)
– Cosmos, “Larvacean life: the surprise ocean giants of global carbon capture” by Amy Middleton (5-10-17)
– Optics & Photonics News, “Lasers capture sea creatures in action” by Sarah Michaud (5-10-17)
– KPCC radio, “Giant zooplankton: Nature’s water filtering, carbon storing enigma” by Julia Paskin (5-10-17)
– KSBW-TV, “MBARI researchers using lasers to study gelatinous creatures” by Caitlin Conrad (5-25-17) |
| Apr 21 |
Atlas Obscura
“Why scientists drag dead whales to the bottom of the sea” by Kevin Litman-Navarro |
| April 10 |
Stories related to MBARI news release New study shows that three quarters of deep-sea animals make their own light
– UPI, “Most deep-sea animals produce their own light, research shows” by Brooks Hayes (4-10-17)
– Huffington Post – UK, “Three in four deep-sea animals are bioluminescent, breakthrough study finds” by Oscar Williams (4-11-17)
– R&D Magazine, “Study sheds light on deep-sea animals” by Kenny Walter (4-11-17)
– Science, “More than 75% of surveyed sea animals glow in the dark” by Virginia Morell (4-11-17)
– LiveScience, “Shining sea: 75 percent of ocean’s animals glow” by Stephanie Pappas (4-12-17)
– Atlas Obscura, “If you live in the ocean, odds are you’re glowing right now” by Samir S. Patel (4-12-17)
– Monterey County Weekly, “MBARI study reveals the majority of marine animals can create their own light” by David Schmalz (4-13-17)
– India Today, “Three quarters of deep-sea animals produce light: study” by Press Trust of India (4-16-17) [Carried by at least 6 other news sites in India]
-Treehugger, “Three quarters of deep-sea creatures glow in the dark” by Melissa Breyer (4-18-17) |
| Mar 27 |
Stories related to an article in Nature-Scientific Reports about a pelagic octopus that eats jellies
-Science, “This deep-sea octopus is a jellyfish junkie” by Erik Stokstad (3-27-17)
– Nature, “Rare sighting reveals deep-sea octopus’s unusual breakfast” by Jane J. Lee
(3-28-17) [also carried by Scientific American]
– KSBW-TV, “Secretive giant octopus recorded by Monterey researchers” (3-28-17) [also carried by SF Gate]
– Gizmodo, “This elusive giant octopus snacks on giant jellies” by George Dvorsky (3-29-17)
– New Scientist, “Giant octopus wears jellyfish cape after it devours its owner” by Maria Bolevich (3-29-17)
– ZME Science, “Camera-shy octopus reveals what it’s been eating” by Elena Motivans (3-29-17)
– CNET, “A rare sighting of a giant octopus reveals its lunch” by Michelle Starr (3-29-17)
– Quartz, “A “seven-armed” octopus has been caught eating jellyfish” by Akshat Rathi (3-30-17)
– CBS, “Rare sighting of giant octopus reveals a surprise” by Michelle Starr (3-30-17)
– Smithsonian, “Researchers spot giant, deep-sea octopus munching on an unusual snack” by Brigit Katz (3-31-17)
– Discover, “Jelly Belly: Elusive deep sea octopus takes its gelatinous meals to go” By Christie Wilcox (3-31-17)
– National Geographic News, “Watch as octopus eats jellyfish, then clings to it as likely weapon” By Sarah Gibbens (4-5-17) |
| Mar 23 |
Good Times
“How loud noises are leaving whales stranded”
by Brendan D. Bane |
| Mar 15 |
Optics.org
“Subsea lidar to map ocean floor with centimeter resolution”
[Based on a press release by 3DatDepth |
| Feb 13 |
Stories related to a Duke University press release about the unusual eyes of Histioteuthis squids
– LiveScience, “Squid survives ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ thanks to its mismatched eyes” by Laura Geggle (2-13-17) [Also carried by CBS News and Tech Times]
– National Geographic News, “Bizarre deep-sea squid has mismatched eyes” by Viviane Callier (2-13-17)
– Daily Mail, “Meet the ‘cockeyed’ squid: Bizarre creature has lopsided eyes to help it survive in the ocean’s twilight zone” by Shivali Best (2-13-17) |
| Feb 13 |
Scientific American (blog)
“Marine ecosystems are preparing for climate change”
by Kavya Balaraman |
| Jan 26 |
Linux.com
“Trimming power on an oceanographic lab in a can”
by Eric Brown |
| Jan 9 |
Eurekalert
“Newly discovered phytoplankton groups appear to favor warmer oceans”
(News release from Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) |
| Jan 5 |
Science Daily
“Study examines ocean acidification effects on rockfish, a key California marine prey base”
(News release from Californiat State University, Monterey Bay) |
| Jan 4 |
Stories related to an article in Nature about fossil chimaeras
– The Verge, “To figure out how ghost sharks evolved, scientists virtually reconstructed an ancient shark brain” by Rachel Becker (1-4-17)
– Gizmodo, “Bizarre ghost sharks evolved from an even weirder species of ancient fish” by George Dvorsky (1-4-17)
– International Business Times, “Inside of ancient shark skull reveals evolutionary origins of eerie ghost sharks” by Martha Henriques (1-4-17) |
