Impact of Multiple Stressors on Sea Bed Fauna in a Warming Arctic
By: Brenna Bales, SRC Intern The Arctic Ocean has been a heavily monitored area in recent years as climate change continues to affect the planet. This area is at high risk due to the fact that is has warmed at almost twice the rate as the rest of the planet in recent decades causing a […]
Functional Group Analysis Provides Insight in to Changes in Ecological Communities
By: Carolyn Hamman, SRC Intern The interaction and impact humans have with and on oceanic environments are difficult to measure yet of vital importance to understand. The increasing global demand for fish as a food source has led to fishing pressures with potentially detrimental effects on the fished communities. By understanding the changes that are […]
A Multi-Faceted and Comprehensive Approach to Understanding San Diego Bay’s Green Turtle Populations and their Origin
By: Casey Dresbach, SRC Intern Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) have called the South San Diego Bay home since the 1850s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries , 2014). Their origin however remains a mystery. There are beliefs that commercial fishermen of the mid 17th century harvested the species in Mexican waters and brought them […]
Harmful Algal Blooms and Climate Change: Exploring Future Distribution Changes
By: Chris Schenker, SRC Intern Across the globe, the effects of climate change are manifesting. Due to anthropogenically-induced environmental changes, the geographic occurrence of many species is being altered, and algae is no exception. Under the right environmental conditions, some algal species can cause harmful algal blooms (HABs) which create toxins and produce many harmful […]
Deepwater Horizon Crude Oil and its Implications on the Atlantic Stingray, Hypanus sabinus
By: Casey Dresbach, SRC Intern Since WWII, the extraction of oil has rapidly revolutionized the way we live. The twentieth century is actually deemed the “century of oil.” The world’s dependency on oil is primarily on Petroleum, also known as crude oil. Crude oil is a complex and naturally occurring mixture of petroleum, which is […]
Long-term effects on long-lived ecosystems: oil spills and deep-water corals
By: Molly Rickles, SRC Intern The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill occurred in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico and was one of the largest oil spills ever recorded. During the 85 days before the spill was capped, over 4.9 million barrels of oil were released. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was unique because most spills […]
