Under the sea
A decade of deep-reef exploration in the Greater Caribbean
March 09, 2022
The use of submersibles exponentially increased recorded diversity of islands’ deep-reef fish faunas.
The use of submersibles exponentially increased recorded diversity of islands’ deep-reef fish faunas.
Scientists, students and communicators from Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain will spend twelve days on the high seas exploring the biodiversity of Panama’s Cordillera de Coiba seamounts.
Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting species by genetic barcoding of plankton samples adds to counts of species recorded as adults and is a highly efficient way to understand what lives in the ocean and how biodiversity changes as we modify the ocean environment.
Dedicated to “the Ancestors who stewarded the ocean” an interactive story map created by the Pacific Sea Garden Collective reawakens traditional ways of harvesting food from the sea from Panama to Australia to the Pacific Northwest.
Tropical coral species may have found an alternative habitat where they can thrive in the face of climate change.
Two weeks exploring the Cordillera de Coiba revealed clues about this unknown region.
Satellite-tracking of the largest fish in the ocean offered insight into their migratory and feeding behavior, but their breeding grounds are still a mystery.
Over half a century ago, a group of manatees from Bocas del Toro was flown into the artificial Gatun Lake to control the abundance of aquatic plants and for public health reasons. Where are they now?
Megalodon could fully consume prey the size of today’s killer whales and then roam the seas without more food for two months.
A study spanning six continents explored the role of termites and microorganisms in wood decay.