From the Deck to the Depths: Deploying SINKER and Releasing the STT
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Published: 10 April 2026
MBARI researchers deployed the SINKER imaging system and surface-tethered traps at the MARS cabled observatory to observe how marine snow particles sink through the water column.
Keywords: marine snow, carbon flux, SINKER, deep-sea imaging, biological pump, particle transport, MARS observatory
Soundscape data provides baseline to protect the changing Arctic
Ocean Networks Canada
Published: 7 April 2026
Ocean Networks Canada publishes 20 years of underwater sound data from the Canadian Arctic, establishing baselines to measure how shipping and ice loss are changing the marine soundscape.
Keywords: Arctic, underwater acoustics, soundscape, ocean monitoring, sea ice, shipping noise, marine conservation
Phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions
University of Western Australia
Published: 1 April 2026
UWA researchers show brief phosphorus pulses in ancient oceans coincided with the Late Ordovician and Late Devonian mass extinctions, when up to 85%% of marine species were lost.
Keywords: phosphorus, mass extinction, paleoceanography, marine chemistry, Ordovician, Devonian, ocean nutrients
