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NewsAn experiential learning program exposes students to science through an artistic lens.
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NewsThe Plastic Pollution Working Group is Duke’s central hub for sharing work by faculty, staff and students related to plastic debris.
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NewsDuke and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have signed an agreement to establish a five-year initiative to support small-scale fisheries worldwide through research, knowledge sharing and capacity building. John Virdin will lead Duke’s efforts.
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NewsOcean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to a new study. The change reflects shifting concentrations of a green pigment called chlorophyll made by photosynthetic algae at the base of the ocean food chain.
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NewsA Marine Lab doctoral student’s Antarctic drone surveys grew into a Bass Connections project investigating seals and penguins, retreating glaciers and blooming vegetation.
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NewsMeet the Read Lab, learn more about its research focus, lab members' experiences in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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NewsCrab behavior suggestive of wound-tending may improve coral tolerance to heat waves.
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NewsKidney disease is typically linked to conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, which gradually wear down the kidneys’ delicate systems that keep the body in balance. But the communities that 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû researchers Nishad Jayasundara , PhD, and nephrologist Anna Strasma , MD, study are facing a different problem.
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NewsModeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places
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NewsAnimals that hunt in the dark with sonar may not be able to tell junk from squids
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NewsMeet the Ocean Synthesis Lab, learn more about its research focus, lab members' experiences in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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NewsResearchers have found a chemical clue in Italian limestone that explains a mass extinction of marine life in the Early Jurassic period, 183 million years ago. Volcanic activity pumped out CO2, warming oceans and lowering their oxygen levels. The findings may foretell the impact climate change and oxygen depletion might have on today’s oceans.
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NewsMeet the Hunt Lab, learn more about its research focus, a lab member's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers Duke students.
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NewsResearchers in North Carolina have created a coastal evolution model to analyze how coastal management activities on barrier islands, meant to adapt to sea-level rise, interact with natural processes that would otherwise keep barrier islands above water.