John Dabiri, Stephen Monosmith, Jeff Koseff and graduate students have studied how brine shrimp move in the lab to better understand the impact plankton and organisms like krill have on ocean waters. It turns out, when tiny organisms move en masse, they churn the water more than expected and might be critical to ocean dynamics.

Stanford researchers learn why aquatic mammals need to be big, but not too big

The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) co-hosted a workshop this month alongside the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC).

Fran Ulmer, the Cox Visiting Professor at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, spoke recently about the Arctic and its under-appreciated connections to the lives of people around the world.