Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University

Understanding how and why species like the North Pacific loggerhead move among habitats is crucial to helping them navigate threats, said study senior author Larry Crowder, the Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor at Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station. Emerging technologies and analyses can help illuminate these journeys. https://woods.stanford.edu//stanford-researchers-and-other

The arrival of juvenile white sharks in the Monterey Bay began around 2014 and coincided with several climate events that brought warmer waters to the Bay Area coastline -- including a particularly curious influx of warm ocean water scientists dubbed the "warm blob." https://www.nbcbayarea.com//white-shark-influx-in/2511699/

Registration is open for the April Friends of Hopkins lecture! Tuesday, April 20th, 7PM Registration is free, but you must do so in advance of the webinar: https://stanford.zoom.us//regist/WN_lDKqEpDRRCqHQcD8fytrIA

TODAY at 3pm! Register for this talk at https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSftokuEejd6XGluMM/viewform

It's pupping season! The first harbor seal pups were born on our beach earlier this week.

New paper by De Leo Lab and collaborators "Land use impacts on parasitic infection: a cross-sectional epidemiological study on the role of irrigated agriculture in schistosome infection in a dammed landscape" just published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty! Full text: https://idpjournal.biomedcentral.com//1/s40249-021-00816-5

The Winter 2020 Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Newsletter is out! Explore work from their key initiatives and get to know the team! https://bit.ly/3n1H5E9

Our study shows that synergistic interactions among multiple ecosystem stressors can greatly increase the risk of population collapse in vulnerable regions like the Arctic, said Stanford University professor and Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions affiliated researcher Kevin Arrigo, who is lead author on the study. Synergies between stressors can double or more the populations’ risk of collapse added Hopkins' Fiorenza Micheli, co-author of the study. https://oceansolutions.stanford.edu//novel-modeling-techni

In 2014, Jeremy Goldbogen, a marine biologist at Hopkins Marine Station, stuck video cameras on the backs of blue whales, hoping to learn more about their feeding habits. When he retrieved the footage, he realized he had been photobombed. https://www.nytimes.com//sc/remoras-suckerfish-whales.html

‘People ask me, Do you think that there will be coral reefs in 50 or 100 years? I think that the answer is definitely yes, but they’re not going to look the same as they do now.’ - excellent article about Palumbi Lab grad student Elora Lopez' research!

Mothers to be made up about half of the large group of harbor seals resting on the beach at Hopkins yesterday.

Mass die-offs of coho salmon just before they are about to spawn have been traced to tire fragments washed into streams by rain.

New study by Hopkins’ Steve Palumbi and collaborators from the Monterey Bay Aquarium combines DNA barcoding + niche models to understand the coastal origins of the global shark fin trade. Learn more: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/d/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0609

We didn’t know what to expect when we started evaluating the program’s health and conservation impacts, but were continually amazed that the data suggested such a strong link between improvements in health care access and tropical forest conservation, said Isabel Jones, the study’s lead author and recent Hopkins Marine Station graduate. https://news.stanford.edu//10/26/healthcare-climate-solut/

Don't miss the 60th Anniversary celebration of Unesco - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission next week! Hoffmann Fellow Alfredo Giron joins Paulina Miloslavich and Asha de Vos to discuss the future of the UN Ocean Decade.

Save the date and register now at https://whova.com/portal/registration/sghrc_202011/

NEW PAPER: Research Associate Colette Wabnitz and collaborators at UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and Yale University explore the importance of transboundary marine species and fisheries management. https://stanford.io/2IL97EK

"Blue foods are already an important part of the food system a principal source of protein for more than 3 billion people and they will be even more important in the years ahead. -- Co-Director Jim Leape With Stockholm Resilience Centre's Beatrice Crona and the rest of the Blue Food Assessment team, we're working to better understand the role aquatic foods will play in the future of the global food system. #WorldFoodDay #OceanAction Read more from a new World Economic Forum Agenda piece: https://stanford.io/3nW6oIR

New paper by Jennifer O'Leary and Maurice Goodman "Opportunities and challenges in achieving co- management in marine protected areas in East Africa: a comparative case study" just published in Journal of the Indian Ocean Region! Full text: https://doi.org/10.1080/19480881.2020.1825201

The Story of Plastic, Film Screening and Discussion Individual Film Screening: via individual email link, watched anytime prior to discussion Community Discussion: ... Monday, November 9th, 7:00pm to 8:00pm Pacific Time THE STORY OF PLASTIC takes a sweeping look at the man-made crisis of plastic pollution and the worldwide effect it has on the health of our planet and the people who inhabit it. More information: https://www.middlebury.edu//story-plastic-individual-film-

About 2/3 of the ocean is covered by clouds, leading to large data gaps in satellite images. A new MDPI study from Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions researchers and collaborators at Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Oxford School of Geography and the Environment compares remote sensing methods for filling these gaps. https://bit.ly/3lLawcV

Congratulations to Jeremy Goldbogen who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! https://goldbogen.stanford.edu/

New paper "Comparison of Cloud-Filling Algorithms for Marine Satellite Data" by Andy Stock, Fio Micheli, and collaborators just published in Remote Sensing! Full text: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/20/3313

A Global Aquaculture Alliance #GOALconf20 panel with Fiorenza Micheli, Jim Leape, American University Assistant Professor Jessica Gephart, and WorldFish Research Program Leader Shakuntala Thiltsed highlighted the importance of aquaculture in the blue food system. Read the full recap here: https://stanford.io/34FM7P0

Congrats to PhD student Will Oestreich who recently was featured on NPR's All things Considered for his new paper on blue whale songs! Listen here: https://www.npr.org//blue-whales-change-their-singing-sche

Does your work help improve upon coral reef restoration? Fundación Iberostar is calling applicants worldwide for their scholarships to continue protecting and restoring these ecosystems. Find out more and apply here: https://bit.ly/3a4u9rt