Andrew Corso

studying small fishes with a big impact | he/him

[Andrew Corso @ad_corso]

As the final in my @williamandmary undergrad course on marine bioinspiration, I asked students to create or modify bioinspired ideas and pitch them to the class. I was blown away by their creativity. Check out their products (coming soon to shark tank) - a🧵

@VIMS_News @wmstli

[U.S. National Science Foundation @NSF]

#NSFfunded researchers from @williamandmary discovered a new species of Antarctic fish — the Akarotaxis gouldae, or the banded dragonfish — in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Learn more at https://t.co/jlJqBQ5VTZ

📷: NSF

[SciTechDaily @SciTechDaily1]

Scientists Discover Peculiar New Species of Dragonfish in Antarctica | https://t.co/SC9w55tb9C

[Virginia Institute of Marine Science @VIMS_News]

New species of Antarctic dragonfish discovered by Batten School graduate Andrew Corso. Named Akarotaxis gouldae to honor ARSV Laurence M. Gould. Visit the link to learn more!

https://t.co/tiHVtzkTnk

📸: Andrew Corso and Kharis Shrage

[Fish in the News @FishInTheNews]

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐴𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑒, a NewSpecies of Antarctic #dragonfish ( #Bathydraconidae) from the western #Antarctic Peninsula. Named in honour of the recently decommissioned Antarctic research supply vessel Laurence M. Gould.
🔓 https://t.co/fV06DdGRGA

[polarjournal.net @polarjournal]

In "Laurence M. Gould"'s nets, a new species of fish. Ten years after the research vessels took samples, a study of the collected items now reveals a new dragon-fish. @Le_Museum @VIMS_News @OregonState @Yale #Antarctic #Fish https://t.co/BhwXwADfLs

[georgelauder @georgelauder]

Why do #fish swim in #schools? A🧵and new hypothesis. Schooling could help fish avoid predators, navigate, communicate, find mates and food, and save energy. Here we propose and test a new hypothesis: https://t.co/fSPkGoWNUP

[Dr. Tricia Thibodeau @PattyPlankton]

Great job @ad_corso sharing your cool research from sea ice to scallops to our marine science program @unetweets. It was a big hit!

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

I don't think there is a human on planet earth who knows what this means for life on Earth in 2024 ...

...but I will tell you that on the 1-100 f&%kery scale, the Antarctic ice deficit today scores 117.

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

You’ve heard about Antarctic sea ice lows - well, here’s the consequences.

Over 9,000 emperor penguin chicks from colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea are thought to have died in November 2022.

The sea ice they lived on broke up early, before they'd developed waterproof feathers.

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has been updated now with 2022's data. The trajectory is clear.

Graphic available at: https://t.co/53ZaRhYqC0. More info: https://t.co/4cWjzWzejk.

[Andrew Corso @ad_corso]

@InternationalWM @williamandmary @VIMS_News Thank you so much!

[W&M Reves Center @InternationalWM]

One of the highlights of @williamandmary graduation was seeing @ad_corso of @VIMS_News receive the Thatcher Prize. https://t.co/rPozkXrSZC His work was our cover story in last summer's World Minded. Bravo, Andrew! https://t.co/YKPfL7mK8n

[Alessandro Cresci @AlessandroCre90]

Our latest study on the effects of low-frequency sound from offshore wind turbines on the behavior of cod larvae at sea. New research performed with cutting-edge technology.
https://t.co/7Y8Hi0ndol

@Havforskningen @EMarineBoard @ICES_ASC @HBrowman @durifcaroline @offshorenorge

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Baby porcupines are born with soft quills to protect the mother during the birthing process.

these only take a few days harden which gives them their sharpness, they are modified hairs made out of keratin
https://t.co/sdtNZEuMCP

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Frozen memories: rare Antarctic expedition images – in pictures https://t.co/qQIJEHDvea

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The mouth of an Arctic lamprey

📷 Randy Brown, USFWS

[Popular Science @PopSci]

The submersible is accompanied by other underwater robots as it heads off into the cold, dark underbelly of the Thwaites Glacier. https://t.co/jdnGpi5Q3U

[Zack Labe @ZLabe]

No changes - #Antarctic sea ice still continues its record decline

More figures at https://t.co/V0Lt0w1sTi. All of the individual regional seas are observing unusually low ice.

[Andrew Corso @ad_corso]

It’s rare that I get to see zooplankton predation in action, but last month I photographed some beautiful Cape petrels (aka flying oreos) munching on Antarctic krill! @PalmerLTER @US_APECS @SCAR_Tweets @WWF_Antarctica

[National Snow and Ice Data Center @NSIDC]

The decline in Antarctic sea ice extent has been unusually rapid this year. At the end of December, Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest in the satellite record. Sea ice extent was more than 500,000 sq km (193,000 sq mi) below the previous record. https://t.co/DXcm5h00Kz