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Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 11 It wasn’t long after we started our surveys of the Chagos Archipelago that we noticed that the Day Octopus (Octopus cyanea) was quite common here. Usually an intelligent creature like an octopus is enough …
Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 10 The first thing you notice when stepping onto the islands of the Chagos Archipelago are the many crabs. From the rock crabs at the water’s edge to the plodding hermit crabs and scurrying ghost …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Gwilym Rowlands, PhD, looks at remote sensing and modeling of coral reef resilience. Remote Sensing and Modeling of Coral Reef Resilience Remote Sensing and Modeling June 17, 2014 By …
This article, written by several Living Oceans Foundation Chief Scientist, Andrew Bruckner, and Research Fellow, Joao Monteiro, along with Science Team members Illiana Baums, Joshua Feingold, and Tyler Smith, looks at the marginal coral populations of Pocillopora in the Galápagos …
This article, published by two Living Oceans Foundation Research Fellows, Gwilym Rowlands and Jeremy Kerr, and long-time Science Team member, Sam Purkis, seeks to unravel the influence of water depth and wave energy on the facies diversity of shelf carbonates. …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at how rubisco expression in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. is influenced by both photoperiod and endosymbiotic lifestyle. Rubisco Expression in the Dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. Is …
Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 9 Blacksaddled Groupers (Plectropomus laevis) are aggregating in Chagos. Groupers are usually solitary fish, except when it comes to spawning, when small groups or larger aggregations form to release large quantities of eggs and sperm …
Expedition Log: BIOT – Day 8 Within the first few days of surveying in Chagos, our fish and benthic surveyors have had multiple encounters with large and often pregnant tawny nurse sharks (Nebrius ferrugineus). Tawny nurse shark swims over the …
This article, published by one of the Living Oceans Foundation Fellows, Andersen Mayfield, PhD, looks at protein analysis in large benthic foraminifera. Protein Analysis in Large Benthic Foraminifera Approaches to Study Living Foraminifera, Environmental Science and Engineering December 11, 2013 …
