Ocean acidification in the Gulf of Mexico: Drivers, impacts, and unknowns

E Osborne, X Hu, ER Hall, K Yates… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ocean acidification (OA) has resulted in global-scale changes in ocean chemistry, which
can disturb marine organisms and ecosystems. Despite its extensively populated coastline …

Coral disease outbreak at the remote Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico

MA Johnston, MS Studivan, IC Enochs… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
East and West Flower Garden Bank (FGB) are part of Flower Garden Banks National Marine
Sanctuary (FGBNMS) in the northwest Gulf of Mexico. This geographically-isolated reef …

Satellite telemetry reveals space use of diamondback terrapins

MM Lamont, ME Price, DJ Catizone - Animal Biotelemetry, 2023 - Springer
Movement and space use information of exploited and imperiled coastal species is critical to
management and conservation actions. While satellite telemetry has been successfully used …

The shortwave radiative flux response to an injection of sea salt aerosols in the Gulf of Mexico

PB Goddard, B Kravitz, DG MacMartin… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Marine cloud brightening (MCB) has been proposed as a potential means of
geoengineering the climate, temporarily providing cooling to offset some of the effects of …

The Flower Garden Banks Siderastrea siderea coral as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

KL DeLong, K Palmer, AJ Wagner… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The proposed Anthropocene Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP)
candidate site of West Flower Garden Bank (27.8762° N, 93.8147° W) is an open ocean …

Rates of future climate change in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea: Implications for Coral Reef Ecosystems

AE Lawman, SG Dee, KL DeLong… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rising temperatures and ocean acidification due to anthropogenic climate change pose
ominous threats to coral reef ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and the western …

Transboundary effects from idealized regional geoengineering

DG MacMartin, B Kravitz… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Regional geoengineering, by reflecting sunlight over a very limited spatial domain, might be
considered as a means to target specific regional impacts of climate change. One of the …

Red Snapper connectivity in the Gulf of Mexico

AC Vaz, M Karnauskas, M Smith… - Marine and Coastal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objective Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus is a valued, heavily exploited fish
species in the Gulf of Mexico. The species is distributed over a wide variety of habitats …

A coral hotspot from a hot past: The EECO and post-EECO rich reef coral fauna from Friuli (Eocene, NE Italy)

FR Bosellini, A Benedetti, AF Budd… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
The early Paleogene “greenhouse” is the warmest geological period of the Cenozoic and a
suitable source to unlock crucial information for better understanding how ecosystems such …

Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals

WJ Foster, CL Garvie, AM Weiss, AD Muscente… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The hyperthermal events of the Cenozoic, including the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum, provide an opportunity to investigate the potential effects of climate warming on …