Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have made an exciting discovery : a virus found in the ocean called ...

A virus that infects ocean phytoplankton was found to encode a ribosomal protein, a first for eukaryotic viruses. Researchers ...

Scientists initially expected some whale populations to rebound a decade after the BP oil spill. New research suggests they ...

The roughskin dogfish, scientifically known as Centroscymnus owstonii, is not a freshwater species. This shark is primarily ...

A case study examines a unique phenomenon in the Indian Ocean. Tropical cyclones (TCs) not only stir the atmosphere by ...

The virus was discovered as part of a larger effort by members of the Marine Viral Ecology Laboratories (MarVEL) in SOEST to isolate and characterize new viruses that live in the ocean. A former ...

A simple prototype cell sorter has grown over time to incorporate technological advances that make it an even more indispensable tool for understanding biology and disease states ...

Julie Thomy, lead author of the study and postdoctoral researcher in the Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: ...

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Turquet’s octopus, which is widespread around Antarctica, has a lot to tell scientists about West Antarctica's imminent ice ...

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from ...

Faculty currently research marine geochemistry, climatology, paleoclimatology, hydrology, geomorphology, oceanography, marine biology, locomotion and fluid dynamics, physiology, ecology and population ...