In addition to serving as an important archive of the marine invertebrates of Southern California, the Benthic Invertebrate Collection has unique geographic and bathymetric strengths. The Collection ...

“Once things had settled down after the disaster, our priority was to find out what had happened to the ecosystems in the sea,” says Tomohiko Kawamura, a marine benthic invertebrate ecologist ...

I developed a strong interest in marine macroalgae working with my undergraduate ... past 15 years or more has been the interactions of Antarctic macroalgae and benthic invertebrates. These ...

Many marine mammals, sea birds and fish in the northern Bering ... are especially sensitive to the loss of benthic invertebrates. “I’m aghast that this trawl study was green-lit with so much disregard ...

Marine litter is one of the most recent global environmental concerns, and information on the effects of especially small-sized plastic litter, microplastics (<5 mm), is urgently needed. I am ...

Anna Metaxas’s group focusses on the factors that regulate populations of benthic marine invertebrates, particularly early in their life history. They use a combination of approaches, such as field ...

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Benthic Invertebrate Collection (SIO-BIC) is an active research repository housing 71,000+ lots, representing 1,000,000+ specimens and 7,600+ species from ...