studying small fishes with a big impact | he/him
Falmouth, MA
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As the final in my @williamandmary undergrad course on marine bioinspiration, I asked students to create or modify bioinspired ideas and pitch them to the class. I was blown away by their creativity. Check out their products (coming soon to shark tank) - a🧵
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#NSFfunded researchers from @williamandmary discovered a new species of Antarctic fish — the Akarotaxis gouldae, or the banded dragonfish — in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. Learn more at bit.ly/3z40zne
📷: NSF
ALT The newly discovered species Akarotaxis gouldae, also known as the banded dragonfish
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Scientists Discover Peculiar New Species of Dragonfish in Antarctica | scitechdaily.com/scientists-…
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New species of Antarctic dragonfish discovered by Batten School graduate Andrew Corso. Named Akarotaxis gouldae to honor ARSV Laurence M. Gould. Visit the link to learn more!
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📸: Andrew Corso and Kharis Shrage
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#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐴𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑒, a NewSpecies of Antarctic #dragonfish ( #Bathydraconidae) from the western #Antarctic Peninsula. Named in honour of the recently decommissioned Antarctic research supply vessel Laurence M. Gould.
🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/view/…
ALT ANDREW D. CORSO et al, Akarotaxis gouldae, a new species of Antarctic dragonfish (Notothenioidei: Bathydraconidae) from the western Antarctic Peninsula, Zootaxa (2024). DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5501.2.3
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In "Laurence M. Gould"'s nets, a new species of fish. Ten years after the research vessels took samples, a study of the collected items now reveals a new dragon-fish. @Le_Museum @VIMS_News @OregonState @Yale #Antarctic #Fish polarjournal.ch/en/2024/09/0…
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Why do #fish swim in #schools? A🧵and new hypothesis. Schooling could help fish avoid predators, navigate, communicate, find mates and food, and save energy. Here we propose and test a new hypothesis: tinyurl.com/yc764d74
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Great job @ad_corso sharing your cool research from sea ice to scallops to our marine science program @unetweets. It was a big hit!
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I don't think there is a human on planet earth who knows what this means for life on Earth in 2024 ...
...but I will tell you that on the 1-100 f&%kery scale, the Antarctic ice deficit today scores 117.
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You’ve heard about Antarctic sea ice lows - well, here’s the consequences.
Over 9,000 emperor penguin chicks from colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea are thought to have died in November 2022.
The sea ice they lived on broke up early, before they'd developed waterproof feathers.
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My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has been updated now with 2022's data. The trajectory is clear.
Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-change-…. More info: wgms.ch/global-glacier-state….
ALT Line graph time series of cumulative glacier mass balance relative to 1970 for the period of 1950 to 2022. There is a long-term decreasing trend through the entire time series.
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One of the highlights of @williamandmary graduation was seeing @ad_corso of @VIMS_News receive the Thatcher Prize. bit.ly/45EBpXD His work was our cover story in last summer's World Minded. Bravo, Andrew! issuu.com/wmglobal/docs/summ…
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Our latest study on the effects of low-frequency sound from offshore wind turbines on the behavior of cod larvae at sea. New research performed with cutting-edge technology.
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
@Havforskningen @EMarineBoard @ICES_ASC @HBrowman @durifcaroline @offshorenorge
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Baby porcupines are born with soft quills to protect the mother during the birthing process.
these only take a few days harden which gives them their sharpness, they are modified hairs made out of keratin
teapawt.org/buitengebieden/status/…
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Frozen memories: rare Antarctic expedition images – in pictures theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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The submersible is accompanied by other underwater robots as it heads off into the cold, dark underbelly of the Thwaites Glacier. trib.al/aUVwlYM
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No changes - #Antarctic sea ice still continues its record decline
More figures at zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-i…. All of the individual regional seas are observing unusually low ice.
ALT Line graph time series of 2023's daily Antarctic sea-ice area compared to each year from 1979 to 2022. Lines are colored from purple in 1979 to white in 2022. 2023 is shown in red. There are no statistically significant long-term trends visible in this graph for the month of January through February. Data are smoothed using a 5-day running mean from the Sea Ice Index v3.
It’s rare that I get to see zooplankton predation in action, but last month I photographed some beautiful Cape petrels (aka flying oreos) munching on Antarctic krill! @PalmerLTER @US_APECS @SCAR_Tweets @WWF_Antarctica
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The decline in Antarctic sea ice extent has been unusually rapid this year. At the end of December, Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest in the satellite record. Sea ice extent was more than 500,000 sq km (193,000 sq mi) below the previous record. nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews
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The zooplankton team has set sail and are ready to get to Antarctica!!
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