Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Marine Scientists Awarded Grant To Study Ciguatera Fish Poisoning; 'There's A Lot We Don't Know'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 15, 2012 (3 months ago)

Marine scientist Deana Erdner is part of an international team of researchers awarded an anticipated five-year, $4 million grant to study the causes of ciguatera fish poisoning, the most common form of algal toxin-induced seafood poisoning in the world. The study... Full Story

Marine Scientists Awarded Grant To Study Ciguatera Fish Poisoning; 'There's A Lot We Don't Know'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 15, 2012 (3 months ago)

Marine scientist Deana Erdner is part of an international team of researchers awarded an anticipated five-year, $4 million grant to study the causes of ciguatera fish poisoning, the most common form of algal toxin-induced seafood poisoning in the world. The study... Full Story

Monday, February 13, 2012

Florida Keys 'Wreck Trek' Program's Prize Winners Announced

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 13, 2012 (3 months ago)

Several thousand divers visit the Florida Keys annually to dive the island chain's shipwreck trail. More than 100 of them completed a series of nine wreck dives to be eligible to win one of several dive and lodging packages and... Full Story

Scientists: Big Fish Shelter Choice Could Have Impact On Ability To Survive Climate Change

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 13, 2012 (3 months ago)

When it comes to choosing a place to hang out, big reef fish like coral trout, snappers and sweetlips have strong architectural preferences. The choices big fish make on where to shelter could have a major influence on their ability to... Full Story

'Anti-Freeze' Fish Of Antarctica Threatened By Climate Change; 'So Well Adapted To Water At Freezing

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 13, 2012 (3 months ago)

A Yale-led study of the evolutionary history of Antarctic fish and their "anti-freeze" proteins illustrates how tens of millions of years ago a lineage of fish adapted to newly formed polar conditions and how today they are endangered by... Full Story

Friday, February 10, 2012

Engineers Find Inspiration For New Materials In Piranha-Proof Armor; 'We're Reaching The Limit With

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 10, 2012 (3 months ago)

It's a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner? The surprising answeriven the notorious guillotine-like bite of the piranhas Brazil's massive Arapaima fish. The... Full Story

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Study: Ocean Warming Causes Elephant Seals To Dive Deeper; 'Food In The Sea Is Unevenly Distributed'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 9, 2012 (4 months ago)

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behavior and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating in a joint study with biologists... Full Story

Study: Ocean Warming Causes Elephant Seals To Dive Deeper; 'Food In The Sea Is Unevenly Distributed'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 9, 2012 (4 months ago)

Global warming is having an effect on the dive behavior and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating in a joint study with biologists... Full Story

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Study: Global Glaciers, Ice Caps, Shedding Billions Of Tons Of Mass Annually; Sea Rising 0.4 Millime

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 8, 2012 (4 months ago)

Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The research effort is the first... Full Story

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Petition Seeks International Investigation Of Canada's Farmed Fish Operations, Protections For Wild

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 7, 2012 (4 months ago)

Conservation, fishing and native groups in Canada and the United States filed a formal petition (pdf) today requesting an international investigation into Canada's failure to protect wild salmon in British Columbia from disease and parasites in industrial fish feedlots. The... Full Story

Report: 2011 Shark Attacks Remain Steady, Worldwide Deaths Highest Since 1993; 'Who's Killing Who?'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 7, 2012 (4 months ago)

Shark attacks in the U.S. declined in 2011, but worldwide fatalities reached a two-decade high, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File report released today. While the U.S. and Florida saw a five-year downturn in the number of... Full Story

Friday, February 03, 2012

Scientists To Install First Real-Time Seafloor Earthquake Observatory At Cascadia Fault; 'You Have T

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 3, 2012 (4 months ago)

damage Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, and Victoria, British Columbia, and generate a large tsunami. Yet there are currently no instruments installed offshore, directly above the fault, for measuring the strain that is currently building up along the fault. But a recent $1... Full Story

Thursday, February 02, 2012

Scottish Seal Killings Can And Must End Say Campaigners; 'Indelible Stain'

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 2, 2012 (4 months ago)

The Scottish Government has just reported that a total of 362 seals were shot in the first nine months of 2011 under its new 'Seal Licence' scheme, introduced at the beginning of the year. In 2012, 58 licenses have been... Full Story

Study Finds Southern Indian Ocean Humpbacks Singing Different Tunes

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 2, 2012 (4 months ago)

A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpbacks in the same ocean basin usually all sing very similar... Full Story

Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Scientists: 'No Evidence' To Support 'Media' And 'Climate Change' Reports On Increasing Jellyfish Po

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 1, 2012 (4 months ago)

Blooms, or proliferation, of jellyfish have shown a substantial, visible impact on coastal populations clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, even choked intake lines for power plants and recent media reports have created a perception that... Full Story

Professor Uses New Supercomputer Model To Accurately Predict 2012 Seasonal Climate Patterns

UnderwaterTimes.com, February 1, 2012 (4 months ago)

Professor Toshio Yamagata, Dean of University of Tokyo Graduate School of Science and Head of the Application Laboratory of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), has announced seasonal climate predictions for 2012 which are strongly influenced by only... Full Story

Monday, January 30, 2012

Indonesian Shark Fishing Communities To Help In Sustainability Study

UnderwaterTimes.com, January 30, 2012 (4 months ago)

A Murdoch University PhD student will spend a year living among Indonesian shark fishermen to investigate their impact on shark populations and the effects of conservation efforts on fishing communities. Vanessa Jaiteh hopes her project, beginning at the end of this... Full Story

Sunday, January 29, 2012

NOAA Study To Satellite Tag Killer Whales Angers Canadian Conservationists; 'Risk Isn't Worth It'

UnderwaterTimes.com, January 29, 2012 (4 months ago)

A plan to tag the endangered southern resident killer whales that ply both sides of the international boundary between Canada and the USA is meeting with growing opposition, now on the Canadian side of the border. Despite efforts between Canada... Full Story

NOAA Study To Satellite Tag Killer Whales Angers Canadian Conservationists; 'Risk Isn't Worth It'

UnderwaterTimes.com, January 29, 2012 (4 months ago)

A plan to tag the endangered southern resident killer whales that ply both sides of the international boundary between Canada and the USA is meeting with growing opposition, now on the Canadian side of the border. Despite efforts between Canada... Full Story