by Prince Wang | Oct 29, 2021 | In the field, News Briefs
It is Halloween again, and time for us to dress up and terrify our neighbors! Let’s look at the winners of this year’s spookiest creatures of the deep blue sea! Second place—Chondrocladia verticillata What if SpongeBob developed a taste for fresh meat? The answer is...
by Nicole Kutenplon | Sep 1, 2021 | News Briefs, Research
Calling all ham radio operators: The Federal Communications Commission has authorized special event callsign W4U to operate through Saturday, 11 September 2021. This special event station, the “Gulf of Mexico Underwater Forests,” will educate the worldwide amateur...
by Ella Messner | Jul 19, 2021 | News Briefs
This month, OGL is welcoming a new postdoctoral fellow and two new co-op students! Did you know that some bacteria stab their competitors with poison darts? In her PhD research at UNC Chapel Hill, Dr. Lauren Speare showed how glowing symbionts use this strategy to...
by Ella Messner | Apr 30, 2021 | News Briefs
Science teachers are awesome! Middle and high school teachers are on the front lines of science education, teaching a generation that not only can save our planet, but must. To do our small part to help these heroes, Ocean Genome Legacy and the Outreach Program at...
by Ella Messner | Mar 4, 2021 | News Briefs
On a nighttime dive on a spectacular shallow reef in Cozumel, Mexico, underwater photographer Robert Stansfield spied something in the inky darkness he had never seen before: a tiny, transparent fish with bright markings, devilish eyes, and a gaping mouth...
by Elena Turner | Jan 7, 2021 | In the field, News Briefs
One of the biggest challenges for marine biologists is understanding how marine animals reproduce. For many species, these are rare events that require very specific circumstances. This problem is compounded for species that are too...
