A robotic sensor that won an R&D 100 Award in 2009 has been put
to use by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Gulf of
Maine coastal waters to monitor the way red tides behave. These
harmful algal blooms, which generate a potentially fatal toxin,
can be a challenge to track or predict. The Environmental Sample
Processors have been remotely deployed and should simplify and
enhance this effort. A recent study is the first to show that
corals are not able to fully acclimate to low... A new study on
the feeding habits of ocean microbes calls into question the
potential... Surprisingly large amounts of discarded trash end
up in the ocean. A recent paper by... Stromatolites (“layered
rocks”) are structures made of calcium carbonate and shaped by
the actions of photosynthetic cyanobacteria and other microbes
that trapped and bound grains of coastal sediment into fine
layers. According to recent research, the widespread and
mysterious disappearance of stromatolites may have been driven
by single-celled orga