The study, published in Movement Ecology, found that tarpon do not feed randomly across their range. Instead, they rely on distinct "foraging landscapes" that act as fueling stations during migration.

Large seabird colonies have a surrounding boundary known as Ashmole’s halo, where food sources are depleted, forcing the birds to travel farther to gather the food they need. The reason seems obvious — the more birds, the more they eat, which reduces the available prey. But that might not be the only factor at play, according to a new study of penguins and krill published on July 15 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

A new partnership between W&M’s VIMS & Batten School and NOAA is turning routine vessel operations and lost crab trap removal into a new source of valuable bathymetric data. The organizations are collaborating with watermen to track shallow water data as they retrieve derelict crab pots.

Reactive Black 5 is a widely used textile dye that is difficult to degrade and commonly found in industrial wastewater. Researchers investigated the treatment potential of a constructed wetland-derived Clostridium sp. strain T4 by combining metabolite identification with ecotoxicological assessment. Although the bacterium removed up to 97% of the dye, toxic aromatic amines accumulated during treatment, increasing aquatic toxicity and demonstrating that decolorization does not necessarily mean detoxification.