Discover the latest articles from leading science journals in the Muser Press weekly roundup, showcasing impactful research published this week.
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Study warns of deadly future marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries
A first-of-its-kind study led by William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS is predicting estuaries along the East Coast of the U.S. will experience marine heat wave conditions up to a third of the year by the end of the century. With estuaries serving as important nursery habitats for nearly 75% of all fish species and supporting more than 54 million jobs, this could have devastating consequences for marine ecosystems as well as the fisheries and communities that depend on them.
The study, published in Scientific Reports, used long-term monitoring data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) program to examine conditions in 20 estuaries across the U.S. over the past two decades. The results showed rising frequencies of marine heat waves in East Coast estuaries that, if continued as modeled, could have disastrous ecosystem consequences.
“The Chesapeake Bay, for example, currently experiences marine heat wave conditions approximately 6% of the year (22 days per year), and that is already placing stress on the ecosystem. Our study shows that estuaries across the East Coast could experience these conditions for more than 100 days of the year by 2100,” said Batten School & VIMS Assistant Professor Piero Mazzini, coauthor and academic advisor to lead author Ricardo Nardi. “This research should serve as a warning to policy makers and environmental managers who are charged with protecting these important ecosystems.”
The news was better for West Coast estuaries, which did not show significant warming trends and may serve as important future refuges for many species. The researchers hypothesized this was due to persistent wind-driven regional upwelling in the Pacific Ocean, which brings deep, cold water up to the surface.
Most research on marine heat waves focuses on larger areas of open ocean, where satellites are able to provide long-term thermal data, or on individual estuaries. “Our study is the first to paint a picture of the effect of climatic variability influencing marine heat waves in estuaries across the nation, and it would not have been possible without the long-term data provided by NOAA’s NEER monitoring system,” said Nardi, who pursued the research as part of his master’s thesis at W&M’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences.
The study also showed connections between large-scale climate patterns, such as El Niño and Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), in modulating marine heat waves, especially in West Coast estuaries where positive phases can more than double occurrences. And while estuaries are typically considered to be interdependent, the researchers found strong relationships between estuaries within similar geographic regions. This finding points to atmospheric heat exchange as the dominant driver of the heat waves.
This study builds on past research by the Batten School & VIMS, which was one of the first to document estuarine heat waves in the Chesapeake Bay. As he advances his master’s thesis, Nardi plans to study the extent to which estuaries are connected to open-ocean processes.
“We need to carefully quantify all of the factors influencing heat within these systems, including connections between the estuaries, their tributaries and coastal ocean conditions,” said Nardi. “These are critical ecosystems and future conservation efforts will depend on our understanding of the factors influencing them.”
Journal Reference:
Nardi, R.U., Mazzini, P.L.F. & Walter, R.K., ‘Climate change and variability drive increasing exposure of marine heatwaves across US estuaries’, Scientific Reports 15, 7831 (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-91864-6
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Press Release/Material by John Wallace | Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Researchers find more accurate way to track polar bears during their most secretive stage of life
For the first time, researchers have combined satellite collar data with specialized cameras to shed light on one of the most mysterious and important stages in polar bears’ lives – maternal denning, when bears give birth then emerge with their cubs.
Past research has shown that how long polar bear mothers remain at their dens impacts cubs’ odds of survival. Yet why they stick around for so long and what they’re doing remains poorly understood, and the tracking devices researchers are increasingly using hadn’t been tested against real-life observations of the bears — until now.
“The Arctic’s warming two to four times faster than the rest of the world, humans are expanding into areas that might be important for polar bear denning, and we know they’re sensitive to disturbance during this time,” says Louise Archer, lead author of the study and U of T Scarborough postdoc.
“We need healthy cubs to sustain populations. We’re trying to develop tools to better monitor and understand their behavior, so we can better protect them.”
Denning begins with pregnant polar bears sealing themselves inside dens dug out under the snow, where they give birth. Polar bears are born about as pathetic as humans, and the den protects them from the frigid weather as they grow 20 times their size in just a few months of nursing.
Though the mother loses about half her body weight, after breaking out of the snow she doesn’t immediately return to hunting. She and the cubs hang around the den for a few weeks, popping in and out and doing something presumably more important than eating.
Historically, researchers studied denning with binoculars, then remote cameras, and they’re now primarily using satellite collars that can track location, activity, and ambient temperature. All these methods have their limitations, and the study notes that while collars are gaining prominence because they can monitor the movements of polar bears over several years, most collars only gather data every few hours, and they’re not ideal for observing more minute behaviours or short trips outside the den.
In the new study, published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, Archer and her colleagues studied bears over six years. Using satellite collars on 13 members of the Barents Sea subpopulation of polar bears, the researchers located and installed cameras outside nine dens in Svalbard, Norway. They found estimates of when polar bears had hit key stages in denning sometimes differed by several days to over a week, depending on whether they looked solely at data from the collars or the cameras.
Each time they gathered collar data, they matched it with the exact image on the camera to confirm what the bears were doing. They then made three statistical models, which other researchers can plug collar data into to accurately predict not just what the bears are doing, but what they will likely do. The models can predict when they’ll first break out, the times they’ll emerge from the den, and when they’ll finally leave. One model can also predict how external factors like temperature influence the behaviour of moms and cubs.
“Collars do a good job at picking out these broader behaviours, like when the bears first come out of the den and when they depart. We found they corresponded pretty well to what we were seeing on camera,” Archer says. “But it was difficult to tease out the finer scale behaviours we saw on camera.”
Bears emerged from their dens almost always in the daytime, on trips that averaged about 27 minutes (ranging from less than a minute to almost eight hours). About half the time mothers had their cubs in tow, most often staying within 40 metres of the den. Bears were more likely to be seen outside the den with each degree the temperature warmed, and with each day that passed since they’d first broken out. Warmer temperatures meant they were more likely to be seen outside the den and they stayed outside longer the higher the temperature and longer since they’d first broken out.
Their data suggests these weeks around the den are mainly for cubs to acclimatize to the outside world, and supports other research that found a faster departure after their breakout means cubs likely didn’t spend enough time outside the den and are less likely to survive.
“The Arctic is a really fast-changing area. We’ve got a lot of sea ice being lost, so seeing what polar bears are doing and how they’re responding to these changes gives us an insight into what we might expect in other parts of the Arctic down the line,” says Archer, who recently completed a study linking a decline in polar bear populations to shrinking sea ice caused by climate change.
“That’s why we’re so invested in trying to build out this data set and continue monitoring bears in this region.”
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The study included researchers from Polar Bears International, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, and the Norwegian Polar Institute.
Journal Reference:
Archer L. C., B. Kirschhoffer, J. Aars, D. K. James, K. M. Miller, N. W. Pilfold, J. Sulich, and M. A. Owen, ‘Monitoring phenology and behavior of polar bears at den emergence using cameras and satellite telemetry’, Journal of Wildlife Management e22725 (2025). DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22725
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Press Release/Material by Alexa Battler | University of Toronto Scarborough
Earth’s orbital rhythms link timing of giant eruptions and climate change
On ten thousand to million years time scales, climate dynamics on the Earth’s surface are driven by both external and internal processes. Earth`s interior provides heat from radioactive decay and chemical compounds by volcanic degassing, such as sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2).
Quasiperiodic changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun regulate the amount of incoming solar radiation on the planet’s surface as well as its distribution across latitudes, affecting the length and intensity of the seasons.
The interplay of both processes through complex geochemical interactions on the surface of our planet shape and regulate the climate we live in.
“Just like a metronome, we used the rhythmic changes in solar insolation imprinted in geological data to synchronize geological climate archives from the South Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific. These key records span the last million years of the Cretaceous and are synchronized down to 5,000 years or less, geologically a blink of an eye 66 million years ago,” says lead author Thomas Westerhold from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen.
To unravel causality arguments in Earth climate history across regions, this kind of synchronization is essential. “So, we had the geological records perfectly lined up in time, and observed that two major changes in climate and biota occurred at the same time in both oceans. But we had to find a way to test if these changes are caused by large scale volcanic eruptions related to the Deccan Traps in India,” says Westerhold.
The up to two kilometers thick basaltic rocks of the Deccan Traps cover a large part of western India. This large-scale volcanism flooding entire landscapes is referred to as Large Igneous Province by geoscientists. Several times in Earth’s history these caused mass extinction events of life on the surface of the planet. Particularly the release of volcanic gases like carbon and sulfur dioxide during the formation of the flood basalts may have played a key role.
“The formation of the flood basalts and its subsequent weathering will leave a geochemical fingerprint in the ocean. Therefore, we measured the Osmium isotope composition of the South Atlantic and the Northwest Pacific deposits. They should show the same fingerprint at the same time,” says co-author Junichiro Kuroda (University Tokyo, Japan), who conducted the geochemical analyses.
“To our surprise we found two steps in the Osmium isotope composition in both oceans contemporaneous with major eruption phases of the Deccan Traps in the latest Cretaceous. And even more surprising those steps had different impacts on the environment as recorded by fossil remains in the drill cores,” says Thomas Westerhold.
The new data were difficult to understand, but geochemical modeling helped to unravel their secrets.
“The volume of the erupted flood basalt must have been much larger than previously though during this early phase of Deccan Trap volcanism. And the related distinct emissions of carbon and sulfur dioxide had diverse effects on the global climate system,” says Don Penman (Utah State University, USA) who did the geochemical modeling.
According to the new finding, published in Science Advances, it seems plausible that at the onset of major Deccan Trap volcanism, independently dated 66.288 Million years by radioisotopic methods, an initial pulse with sulfur rich eruptions occurred stressing the ecosystem locally and possibly also globally.
Journal Reference:
Thomas Westerhold, Edoardo Dallanave, Donald Penman, Blair Schoene, Ursula Röhl, Nikolaus Gussone, Junichiro Kuroda, ‘Earth orbital rhythms links timing of Deccan trap volcanism phases and global climate change’, Science Advances 11, eadr8584 (2025). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adr8584
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Press Release/Material by MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
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