Hurricane Season Is Heating Up. So Is the Planet. Coincidence?
The reef rescuer
BIOS Adjunct scientist, Dr. Samia Sarkis, helped launch the Coral Garden Initiative in June; the project is the brainchild of Living Reefs Foundation, which started in 2013.
In Memoriam
With sadness, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) has received news of the passing of Life Trustee Mr. Brunell Spurling.
Ocean circulation implicated in past abrupt climate changes

There was a period during the last ice age when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere went on a rollercoaster ride, plummeting and then rising again every 1,500 years or so. Those abrupt climate changes wreaked havoc on ecosystems, but their cause has been something of a mystery. New evidence shows for the first time that the ocean's overturning circulation slowed during every one of those temperature plunges -- at times almost stopping.