News: Marine Science

Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin

Features

Unlikely Partners: Bees and Turtles

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...

A sea turtle rests on a towel as it is handled by a person in protective gloves

Announcements

CNS Welcomes 16 New Faculty Members

See the new faces around the College of Natural Sciences.

Seal of the university of texas with an orange filter

Features

Reading the Tea Leaves

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

An aerial shot of a salt marsh showing land water and a vessel

Features

Nurdle Patrol Expands its Citizen Scientist Effort to Fight Plastic Pollution on Beaches

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

Jace Tunnell of the Nurdle Patrol on the beach crouches and picks up plastic pellets to add to a tube

Research

Loss of Picky-Eating Fishes Threatens Coral Reef Food Webs

Delicate ecosystems become more precarious as specialized hunters disappear.

A school of red fish swim above a coral reef

Research

Finding the Goldilocks Zone for Fish at Oil Platforms

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...

Near an oil rig underwater, fish swarm

Announcements

Bay Education Center is Fully Repaired and Reopened after Hurricane Harvey Damage

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...

Bay Education Center exhibits show animals such as a coyote and javelina

UT News

Climate-friendly Microbes Chomp Dead Plants Without Releasing Heat-trapping Methane

Scientists have identified an entirely new group of microbes quietly living in hot springs, geothermal systems and hydrothermal sediments around the world.

Hot springs

Texas Scientist

The Start of It All

Here’s how eukaryotes might have evolved from simpler life forms

Illustration of the inside of a eukaryotic cell

Features

Record Number of Turtles Rescued at University of Texas Marine Science Institute

Winter Storm Uri caused damage and hardship across the state of Texas, and at the Port Aransas campus of the University of Texas at Austin...

Volunteers wearing face masks cater in an indoor area to dozens of sea turtles