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Lobsters hide from cod, not the other way around
If you think you are about to become the victim of an attack, police say one way to potentially protect yourself is to hide. In the lobster world, the same goes. Lobsters hide from their predators.
January 02, 2014
Lobsters hide from cod, not the other way around
If you think you are about to become the victim of an attack, police say one way to potentially protect yourself is to hide. In the lobster world, the same goes. Lobsters hide from their predators.
December 20, 2013
We’re heading underwater
Two Marine and Environmental Sciences professors are featured in Men’s Journal.
December 10, 2013
We’re heading underwater
Two Marine and Environmental Sciences professors are featured in Men's Journal.
December 10, 2013
We're heading underwater
Two Marine and Environmental Sciences professors are featured in Men's Journal.
December 10, 2013
Communicating climate change
Together with faculty members from three of the University's Colleges, Professor Brian Helmuth is working to communicate about climate change through his own work and that of the Urban Coastal Sustainability Initiative.
December 02, 2013
Size is important – even for algae
Associate Professor Matt Bracken recently published findings of a six-year study in the journal Ecology. Bracken and colleagues measured the effect that seaweed diversity has on invertebrates large and small in the rocky intertidal zones of northern California.
November 27, 2013
No place to hide?
Many researchers at the Marine Science Center study how predator-prey interactions shape coastal ecosystems, and "ecosystem engineer" species play a critical role.
November 05, 2013
Are they venting? A question for recreational anglers
Postdoctoral Researcher, Steven Scyphers, works with the Grabowski Lab at the Marine Science Center and investigates the human side of fisheries management.
November 05, 2013
Global ecology as the next grand strategy
Retired Marine Col. Mark Mykleby said at a campus lecture this week that the nation's biggest problem is global unsustainability and it will take behavioral change, not national strategy, to fix it.
September 27, 2013
Making whoopee, coral style
Most species are content with just one form of reproduction, but not for the coral p. damicornis. These guys make babies sexually and asexually. Doctoral candidate David Combosch wants to know why.
September 27, 2013
New Marine Science Center faculty focused on sustainability
The Marine Science Center has welcomed several new faculty members whose focus is urban coastal sustainability.
September 19, 2013
Deep water data
Urban coastal sustainability becomes an ever more pressing concern as more than half of the world’s population flocks to its shores—the places where cities thrive.
September 19, 2013
MSC undergoes massive renovations as Center grows
In an ongoing effort to keep its neighbors in the loop about significant happenings at the Marine Science Center, Director Geoff Trussell recently sat down with the Lynn Item to talk about recent construction and plans for the Center's future.
September 17, 2013