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OCEAN RESEARCH & REPORTS
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RESEARCH PAPERS AND REPORTS
MARCH 2025
Arizona State University creates decision-making framework to improve conservation efficiency - ASU
Florida, South Africa Emerge as Ocean Energy Hotspots in Global Hunt for Renewable Power - Florida Atlantic University
Sharks are dying at alarming rates, mostly due to fishing. Retention bans may help - EurekAlert
Ocean Literacy in managing Marine Protected Areas: Bridging natural and cultural heritage - Frontiers
Migrating baleen whales transport high-latitude nutrients to tropical and subtropical ecosystems - Nature
High Seas workshop catalyses urgent action for conservation of biodiversity - IUCN
Eukaryotic phytoplankton decline could significantly impact global carbon cycle - Phys.org
AI Cracks the Ocean’s Acoustic Code to Reveal Hidden Marine Life - SciTechDaily
Study: Coastal cities will spend over $3 trillion on damage from sea level rise - Earth.com
Arctic Ocean bathymetry and its connections to tectonics, oceanography and climate - Nature
Unlocking the Power of eDNA for Marine Conservation - NOAA
UNESCO Launches Policy Brief Highlighting Urgent Need to Strengthen Ocean Literacy in Education - UNESCO
Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO - NASA
As the politics of climate change shift, how can ordinary people respond? - Yale
Investigating passive eDNA samplers and submergence times for marine surveillance - ResearchGate
FEBRUARY 2025
Shark Activity On South African Reef Revealed By Citizen Scientist Scuba Divers - PLOS Journal
Elephant seals as ecosystem sentinels for the northeast Pacific Ocean twilight zone - Science
Iconic ocean-current system is safe from climate collapse ― for now - Nature
Tiny Ocean Plastics Linked to Big Brain Problems - MedPage Today
How to write your way through climate anxiety and uncertainty - Yale Climate Connections
The rising tide of sand mining: A growing threat to marine life - Michigan State University
Rare Deep-Sea Shark Faces Extinction As Its Home Disappears - University of Plymouth
Recent Decline in Global Ocean Evaporation Due To Wind Stilling - AGU
Wild fish use visual cues to recognize individual divers - The Royal Society, Biology Letters
Study shows Indian Ocean devil rays at risk of overfishing - Phys.org
Study shows MPAs boost fish populations across California's waters - Baird Maritime
Underwater Mountains Are Teeming With 41 Times More Sharks Than The Open Ocean - IFLScience
Saving North Atlantic right whales: High-tech solutions to prevent vessel strikes - ifaw
Protecting the next generation of whales - WWF
State of the world’s kelp forests - Eger, Aaron M. et al. One Earth
‘Marine Prosperity Areas’ Represent a New Hope in Conservation - Scripps, UC San Diego
Blue food project taps the ocean’s potential to feed the world - Stanford University
Climate change is overhauling marine nutrient cycles - UC Irvine
How Africa can make 2025 its ‘super year’ for ocean governance - Institute for Securities Studies
JANUARY 2025
Status, trends and conservation of global sea turtle populations -Nature
Rabies and Seals in South Africa: What You Need to Know - NICD
Study reveals rapid shift in loggerhead sea turtles' range - Stanford University
Offshore wind farms could cause significant ecosystem, economic and human health risks - University of Portsmouth
As Oceans Warm, Predators Are Falling Out of Sync with Their Prey - Yale
NHK’s Deep Ocean team succeeds in capturing new behavior of the coelacanth - Prensario
Tropical Blue Carbon: Challenges and Opportunities - Frontiers (Jan. 13)
Study finds resilient coral reefs in the Indian Ocean basin - The East African
Ocean Economy Market is expected to display a CAGR of 7.8% and reach USD 5.04 trillion by 2034 - Polaris Market Research
Ocean’s largest chlorophyll-rich tongue is extending westward - Nature
DECEMBER 2024
Satellite tracking reveals critical habitats and migratory pathways for green and hawksbill turtles - Endangered Species Research
Oceans and the law of the sea: sustainable fisheries - UN General Assembly
Oceans and the law of the sea - UN General Assembly
Assessing South Africa’s marine protected area quality and progress towards conservation goals: An application of The MPA Guide framework - Science Direct
First-ever Mediterranean mako shortfin shark tagged for conservation - Virginia Tech
Climate communication: 10 research-backed tips - Harvard
‘Knowledge Brokering’: Key to successful development of the Marine Protected Areas - IUCN
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning - The Conversation
Ecological erosion and expanding extinction risk of sharks and rays - Science
Marine Protected Areas as a Tool for Environmental Justice - Frontiers
NOVEMBER 2024
Decadal oscillations in the ocean’s largest oxygen-deficient zone - Science
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) hunt, kill and consume the largest fish on Earth, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) - Frontiers
Direct hearing measurements in a baleen whale suggest ultrasonic sensitivity - Science
A new model can predict marine heatwaves and extreme ocean acidity months in advance - University of Colorado Boulder
Ekman revisited: Surface currents to the left of the winds in the Northern Hemisphere - Science
NOAA Committee Conducting Survey on Methods to Deter Conflicts with Marine Mammals - NOAA
Ship collision risk threatens whales across the world’s oceans - Science
NOAA Partners With Carbon To Sea To Release Guidelines On mCDR Data Management - Carbon Herald
Mechanically strong yet metabolizable supramolecular plastics by desalting upon phase separation - Science
Navigating the Current Landscape of Ocean Observations: Overview From Platform Infrastructures to Networks related to Ocean Time Series - Frontiers
One or Many? Exploring the Population Groups of Antarctic Blue Whales - University of Washington
State of the Climate 2024 - World Meteorological Organization
The Dubai Ocean Declaration - Nature
An ocean of life: how the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development is supporting implementation of the Kunming-Montreal GBF - UNESCO
Most recent iteration of the possible Global Plastics Treaty - UN
Climate Action Tracker - Climate Analytics, New Climate Institute, IESR
Apia Commonwealth Ocean Declaration - The Commonwealth Secretariat
Ocean Research Media Report - Pulitzer Center
The four big ocean fights of the next four years - Ocean Conservancy
Maximizing the Potential of Sustainable Aquatic Food Systems for Global Food Security: Key Opportunities and Challenges - Frontiers
2024 Lancet Report on Climate Change Reveals Record-breaking Health Threats - Yale
OCTOBER 2024
Changing Human Behavior to Conserve Biodiversity - Verissimo, D. et al, IUCN
Protected Planet Report 2024 - UNEP-WCMC and IUCN
State of the world’s kelp forests - Eger, Aaron M. et al. One Earth, Volume 0, Issue 0
Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. Synthesis report by the secretariat - UN Climate Change
Advancing the Protection Principle - The Varda Group
Are we missing the mark on biodiversity? 90% of countries ignore key behavior changes - University of Surrey
Tides of Transparency. A First Mapping of Industrial Ocean Data Sharing - Ocean Data Action Coalition, HUB Ocean, UN Ocean Decade
Sea-level rise maps can decrease risk perceptions in coastal communities - Yale Program
The Ocean Prediction DCC Architecture for Ocean Forecasting - UN Ocean Decade
EARLIER
Tracking animal movements via collaborative acoustic telemetry networks - Journal of Fish Biology
Ocean Literacy and the Atlantic Region: a toolkit for educators - UNESCO
Policy Brief on Sea Level Rise - IUCN
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean - Ademir S. Maruyama et al, Biological Conservation, Volume 289
A Regional Perspective: the Agulhas Current System - NOAA
