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Marine Ecology
Ecology is the study of the relationships that organisms have with each other and with their natural environment. Marine ecology is simply ecology applied to marine biota and the marine environment.
Marine Science News
Study uncovers value of shark dive tourism
Putting the mass coral bleaching event in 2016 into a 30+ year context
Australia’s new marine parks plan is a case of the Emperor’s new clothes
Sunfish spotting: four-year search discovers first new species in 130 years
Exceptional fish diversity found on Australia’s north-west oceanic shoals
Marine Science facts
- Irukandji jelly fish, with just a brush of venom leaves almost no mark. But after about a half hour you develop Irukandji syndrome, a debilitating mix of nausea, vomiting, severe pain, difficulty breathing, drenching sweating and sense of impending doom. You get so sick that your biggest worry is that you’re not going to die
- Half the Oxygen we breath is produced in the Ocean
- The most remote point in the oceans is called Point Nemo
- The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans are known as the three major oceans.