The National Ocean Science Bowl Finals were held in Morehead City, NC with many local marine scientists and marine laboratories facilitating the event. (ZIJ served as a science judge for some of the competition.) The finals had the theme,“Our Changing Ocean: Science for Strong Coastal Communities.” The National Ocean Sciences […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
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There is a growing recognition of marine microenvironments’ roles as reservoirs of biodiversity, sites of enhanced biological activity and in facilitating biological interactions. Here, we examine the bacterial community inhabiting free-living and particle-associated seawater microenvironments at the Pivers Island Coastal Observatory (PICO). 16S rRNA gene libraries from monthly samples (July […]
Foraging theory predicts the evolution of feeding behaviors that increase consumer fitness. Sponges were among the earliest metazoans on earth and developed a unique filter-feeding mechanism that does not rely on a nervous system. Once thought indiscriminate, sponges are now known to selectively consume picoplankton, but it is unclear whether […]