The mysterious ecosystem at the ocean’s surface

The great Atlantic Sargassum belt

(2019) Mengqiu Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained wood burial in the Bengal Fan over the last 19 My

(2019) Hyejung Lee et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Factors controlling the seasonal distribution of pelagic Sargassum

(2018) MT Brooks et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Numerical simulations of debris drift from the Great Japan Tsunami of 2011 and their verification with observational reports

(2018) Nikolai Maximenko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Factors controlling the seasonal distribution of pelagic Sargassum

(2018) MT Brooks et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Sea surface microlayer in a changing ocean – A perspective

(2017) Oliver Wurl et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Quacks snack on smacks: mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) observed feeding on hydrozoans (Velella velella)

(2017) Natasha Phillips et al.   Plankton & Benthos Research

The use of ephyrae of a scyphozoan jellyfish, Aurelia aurita , in the aquatic toxicological assessment of Macondo oils from the Deepwater Horizon incident

(2016) B.S. Echols et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Identifying pelagic fish eggs in the southeast Yucatan Peninsula using DNA barcodes

(2016) E. Leyva-Cruz et al.   GENOME

The contribution of migratory mesopelagic fishes to neuston fish assemblages across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans

(2016) M. Pilar Olivar et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Comparative mitochondrial and chloroplast genomics of a genetically distinct form ofSargassumcontributing to recent “Golden Tides” in the Western Atlantic

(2016) Linda A. Amaral-Zettler et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

(2015) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

High frequency of occurrence of anthropogenic debris ingestion by sea turtles in the North Pacific Ocean

(2015) Kathryn R. Wedemeyer-Strombel et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Biochemical analyses of the cement float of the goose barnacleDosima fascicularis– a preliminary study

(2014) Vanessa Zheden et al.   BIOFOULING

Molecular and morphological systematics of neustonic nudibranchs (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Glaucidae : Glaucus), with descriptions of three new cryptic species

(2014) Celia K. C. Churchill et al.   INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMATICS

Pelagic Sargassum community change over a 40-year period: temporal and spatial variability

(2014) C. L. Huffard et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Carotenoid metabolic profiling and transcriptome-genome mining reveal functional equivalence among blue-pigmented copepods and appendicularia

(2014) Nazia Mojib et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plastic Pollution in the World's Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea

(2014) Marcus Eriksen et al.   PLoS One

Novel Pathways for Injury from Offshore Oil Spills: Direct, Sublethal and Indirect Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Pelagic Sargassum Communities

(2013) Sean P. Powers et al.   PLoS One

Gooseneck barnacles (Lepasspp.) ingest microplastic debris in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

(2013) Miriam C. Goldstein et al.   PeerJ

Increased oceanic microplastic debris enhances oviposition in an endemic pelagic insect

(2012) M. C. Goldstein et al.   Biology Letters

Foods of Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in algal rafts and its distribution in Irish seas

(2012) Jennifer E. Purcell et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Distribution and Habitat Associations of Billfish and Swordfish Larvae across Mesoscale Features in the Gulf of Mexico

(2012) Jay R. Rooker et al.   PLoS One

Defining marine habitat of juvenile Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, and coho salmon, O. kisutch, in the northern California Current System

(2011) Suzan S. Pool et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Distribution of floating Sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean mapped using MERIS

(2011) J. F. R. Gower et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Tropical cyclones and climate change

(2010) Thomas R. Knutson et al.   Nature Geoscience

Oceanic Spawning Migration of the European Eel (Anguilla anguilla)

(2009) K. Aarestrup et al.   SCIENCE

The stomach contents of post-hatchling green and loggerhead sea turtles in the southwest Pacific: an insight into habitat association

(2008) M. C. Boyle et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

The gelatinous nature of the sea-surface microlayer

(2008) Oliver Wurl et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY