Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod

The Seismological Society of America (SSA) will present its highest honor, the 2024 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, to Norman A. Abrahamson, adjunct professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis, and former engineering seismologist at Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Abrahamson, who will receive the Reid Medal at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting, is recognized as a global leader in the field of probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA). Within the seismic hazard community, he is known for developing new methodologies as well as refining state-of-the-art practices ...

Doyeon Kim (DK) has been honored with the Seismological Society of America’s (SSA) 2024 Charles F. Richter Early Career Award for his scientific productivity across a variety of topics, including recent work on Martian seismology and his pioneering approaches to seismic imaging. Kim, a lecturer in planetary science in the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London, will receive the Richter Award at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting. “I am sincerely grateful for this award, which I humbly attribute to the collective efforts of those who have played a pivotal role in shaping my academic career. This recognition fuels my dedication to furthering ...

For his work leading to profound improvements in how earthquake science is communicated to students, the media and decision makers, the Seismological Society of America (SSA) honors Harley M. Benz with the 2024 Frank Press Public Service Award. Benz, a former U.S. Geological Survey technical coordinator for the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS) and the director of the USGS National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), will receive the Press Award at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting. In his nomination of Benz for the award, Gavin Hayes, senior science advisor for earthquake ...

For his outstanding contributions as chair of the SSA Publications Committee, the Seismological Society of America (SSA) will present Douglas Scott Dreger with its 2024 Distinguished Service Award (DSA). Dreger will receive the award at the 2024 SSA Annual Meeting. Dreger, a professor of geophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, served as Publications Committee chair between 2016 and 2022. Dreger “instigated a broad range of initiatives intended to reinforce the reputation and financial performance ...

A new camera system allows ecologists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately replicate the colors that different animals see in natural settings, Vera Vasas at the University of Sussex, UK, and colleagues from the Hanley Color Lab at George Mason University, US, report in the open access journal PLOS Biology, publishing January 23rd. Different animals perceive the world differently because of the capabilities of the photoreceptors in their eyes. For example, animals like honeybees and some birds can see UV light, which are outside the range of human perception. Reconstructing the colors that animals ...

In a new study, two species of bacteria grown in a lab reversed their predator-prey relationship after one species was grown at a lower temperature. Marie Vasse of MIVEGEC, France, and colleagues publish these findings January 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Prior research has shown that ecological context can influence predator-prey relationships. For instance, similarity or contrast between background color and coloration of a prey species can influence how easily it is detected by predators. In addition, predator-prey relationships can sometimes switch, as is the case for two crustacean species that mutually prey on each other, where a change in surrounding salinity ...

Author Interview: Why did you create this reporting guideline? We created this reporting guideline because consensus methods are widely used to produce recommendations in research and patient care, and so it is important to be able to judge how well they were conducted and how relevant these results might be. How did you go about this? We assembled an international steering committee of clinicians, journal editors, guideline and consensus experts, publication professionals and patients to look at how ...

A new study finds that very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose levels through weight loss alone. A team led by Andrea Luk of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, report these findings January 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. Clinical trials suggest that people with type 2 diabetes can control their blood glucose levels without medication if they lose weight and keep it off. However, it is unknown how many patients can achieve remission through weight loss alone under real-world conditions. In the new study, researchers looked at 37,326 people in Hong Kong who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes to see ...

The Louis-Jeantet Foundation honors the Director at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences for discovering a new kind of biological matter that acts as a highly selective barrier to control central transport pathways in the cell. He has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the processes by which macromolecules are transported into and out of the cell nucleus, the foundation said. The prestigious award is endowed with 500,000 Swiss francs (around 537,000 euros). Görlich studies how cells solve the logistical challenge of getting their ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Ecologists have long known that standing dead trees, commonly referred to as snags, are an important habitat element for forest dwellers and act as a driver of biodiversity. They’re so important that in some managed forests, snag creation is part of the conservation tool kit – i.e., crews sometimes convert a percentage of live trees into dead ones through techniques ranging from sawing off their tops to wounding their trunks to injecting them with disease-causing fungi. Until now, however, key questions had remained unanswered: How well do any of those techniques actually work over the long term? ...