News: Marine Science

The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found.

Nielsen will use her expertise to investigate how climate change is altering the potential for dietary contaminant exposure in remote Alaskan communities.

Instead of focusing entirely on biomass and one-size-fits-all solutions, researchers recommend finding which fish provide the most useful functions in each reef system and protecting...

Honey bees and sea turtles may seem like strange bedfellows, but through two of the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve's (NERR) stewardship programs – Fennessey...

See the new faces around the College of Natural Sciences.

Sometimes well known, simple household objects can be the best tools to use in a science experiment.

Plastic pollution in marine environments has no border, and now neither does the Nurdle Patrol.

Delicate ecosystems become more precarious as specialized hunters disappear.

If you are an angler looking for the best place to fish in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil platforms offshore of Louisiana's Atchafalaya River...

The Bay Education Center, operated by the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, a program of the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, is reopening with...