Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

2 weeks ago | seaaroundus.org | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

In the heat of summer in central Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki hosted the 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium. Titled “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” the two-day event started on September 2, 2024, with a full day dedicated to some of the overarching themes the Sea Around Us team is doing research on.

1 month ago | seaaroundus.org | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.

1 month ago | seaaroundus.org | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million years ago, resemble that of current marine invertebrates like golden shrimp and Baltic clam. New research by a team at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Harvard University and the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia shows that P.

2 months ago | seaaroundus.org | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

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Jan 16, 2025 | seaaroundus.org | Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

By Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly. The Quantitative Aquatics and Sea Around Us teams lament the passing of W.N ‘Bill’ Eschmeyer (1939-2024), the founding editor and namesake of the Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (ECoF). Born in Knoxville, USA, Eschmeyer studied marine biology at the University of Michigan, following the footsteps of his late father, Reuben Eschmeyer, who was the head of fisheries for the Tennessee Valley Authority.