Citizen scientists at REEF spotted a fish species previously undocumented in the Salish Sea, the Striped Kelpfish. A new paper describes this and other sightings made by volunteer divers. https://t.co/vRMDzNIgIH @SeaDocSociety
Quite ironic to be openly proud of a paper on the importance of intellectual humility, but I’m actually really happy that this paper @siminevazire and I have been working on for a while is finally out. It can be found here: https://t.co/L5bOnPjB2a. 1/4
Congratulations Lizzy Ashley @ecologgerhead on a summer of science and great work on the always fascinating sea otter with Drs Megan Moriarty and Melissa Miller - hope you stay curious and come back to us with more research questions! @EpiCenterUCD
Celebrating #worldturtleday2021 and my former and current students Andrew Grosse @BA_Crawford @SeanSterrett @tsmstrat @GroverJBrown @ecologgerhead @daniellosaurus Seamus O’Brien who’ve worked hard to understand and conserve these amazing animals.
For years, we thought turtle seagrass was pollinated by ocean currents.
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But research has shown that zooplankton are "bees of the sea" carrying pollen between plants.
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The flowers have even adapted to open up at night when the plankton are most active!
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#WorldBeeDay
Took a study break to skim through dog-ears in an old favorite, @OshaDavidson’s the Enchanted Braid, and recalled my favorite description of ecology: the difference between chaos and complexity!
A reminder that we live in a world where turtles have tears and butterflies drink them for the salt.
Rainforest ecology is complex, but sometimes the simplicity of a bizarre interaction is just about perfect.
Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislature passed an extreme ban on abortion before many women even know they’re pregnant. Georgia women deserve leadership that will protect and expand their reproductive health care, not undermine their access. #HB481
"When Samantha Joye (@SeepExplorer) and Rebecca Rutstein talk about diving in the deep ocean, it can be difficult to tell who is the scientist and who is the artist." https://t.co/hv3rQJSZap
Sea turtles are excreting plastics, which could signal tremendous negative implications for the ocean's food web. Read more about our recent study with @LoggerheadMC in the latest issue of Research Magazine. @UGAResearch https://t.co/3T5XHXRNK0
Plastic pollution is a problem we must all address, but we should never lose focus on the bigger issues: habitat, climate, soil, nutrients, biodiversity https://t.co/7D9x8MjdNE via @wef