A small silver fish swimming over a sandy bottom with some small seagrass plants nearby. There are rays of sunlight coming through the water.

Partner Spotlight: Monastir Bay, Tunisia

July 22, 2026

July 22, 2026 | By Sahar Chebaane

Isis Guibert and Philip Thompson standing in the water holding one of the PVC frames with tea bags on it.
Photo by Philip Thompson

What 2,000 Tea Bags Told Us About Coastal Carbon Storage

July 17, 2026

July 17, 2026 | By Anna Shenk-Evans and Isis Guilbert

Kayla standing on a dock smiling, and holding a piece of plastic covered in algae. Behind her are trees and a blue sky.

Partner Spotlight: St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands

June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026 | By Kayla Blincow

Three people collecting samples on a sandy beach with the waves crashing behind them

Partner Spotlight: North Gulf Coast Texas

May 13, 2026

May 13, 2026 | By Guilherme Corte

The 3C team and participants smiling in Fort Pierce Florida holding a MarineGEO flag

The Connecting Coastlines to Campuses Program: Integrating MarineGEO Protocols in Higher Education

April 24, 2026

April 24, 2026 | By Anna Shenk-Evans and the 3C Program Coordination Team

A group photo of the Beach Surveyor Project Team
Photo by a member of the SERC staff

Sandy Beaches: A Window to the Sea for K-12 Students

April 10, 2026

April 10, 2026 | By Anna Shenk-Evans and the BSP Coordination Team

Nicole diving at Port Noarlunga, South Australia

Q&A Series with New MarineGEO Team Member: Nicole Foster

March 31, 2023

Q&A with new MarineGEO Postdoctoral Researcher, Nicole Foster.

Katelyn hiking in Red Rock Canyon, Nevada

Q&A Series with New MarineGEO Team Member: Katelyn DiBenedetto

March 31, 2023

Q&A with new MarineGEO Program Manager, Katelyn DiBenedetto.

Emily Anderson makes friends with a shark sucker while on the 2022 Belize MarineGEO campaign

Q&A Series with New MarineGEO Team Member: Emily Anderson

March 30, 2023

Q&A with new MarineGEO Research Technician, Emily Anderson.

Bibi Powers-McCormack

Q&A Series with New MarineGEO Team Member: Bibi Powers-McCormack

March 30, 2023

Q&A with new MarineGEO Data Technician, Bibi Powers-McCormack.

Motile organisms caught in the 2mm sieve are categorised by volunteers. Species are identified and counted.

2022 Field Updates from MarineGEO Hong Kong Observatory

March 30, 2023

MarineGEO Hong Kong Observatory announces the official opening of the Swine Institute of Marine Science and gives an update on their ARMS retrieval and processing.

A panel ready to be lowered into the water

2022 Field Updates from MarineGEO Central Coast Peru Observatory

March 30, 2023

MarineGEO Peru Observatory provides an update on the SED-BIOME and PANELS experiments.

Gillian Sadlier-Brown and Derek VanMaanen, field technicians from the Hakai Institute, take microbial samples from Pycnopodia near Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada. Photo credit: Alyssa Gehman

2022 Field Updates from MarineGEO Hakai Observatory

March 29, 2023

MarineGEO Hackai provides an update on the projects they've been focused on in 2022, including a roadmap to recovery for the sunflower sea star, a study on food web connectivity, and the False Creek bioblitz.

Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn samples a tagged coral colony, while a curious nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) observes her technique (Photo credit: Leah Harper).

In the COVID era, coral reefs face their own pandemic

March 29, 2023

The MarineGEO research team revisited the Carrie Bow Cay station in Belize in late 2022 and found that corals were facing their own pandemic, with signs of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) and a decline in coral cover.

Flourishing fish communities on a coral reef in Mangareva, French Polynesia

New MarineGEO Network Project Alert: BEACON Project

March 29, 2023

The BEACON project is a new MarineGEO network initiative to explore the relationship between biodiversity and energy availability in coastal marine ecosystems around the world.

Experiment deployed at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at Bocas del Toro, Panama. (credit: Janina Seeman)

PanAmEx reveals that higher ocean temperatures lead to greater predation pressure

January 10, 2023

Scientists from 36 sites across 110 degrees of latitude ran the same experiment to assess the intensity and impact of predators on local marine invertebrate communities.

gorgonian coral in Panama

A doubling of coral cover on Carrie Bow Cay, Belize from 2014-2019

March 9, 2022

This study is the first to leverage the long-term photographic data collected by MarineGEO at Carrie Bow Cay to show that coral cover has improved there since the program began in 2014.