AMES, Iowa – Alan Wanamaker, working as a postdoctoral researcher from 2007 to 2009, was charged with beginning to compile a 1,000-year record of the marine climate for a spot in the North Atlantic ...

AMES, Iowa – Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. Shelly Griffin and Madelyn Mette recently boarded a lobster boat, ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom examine centuries-old quahog clam shells to explain the reasons behind a “tipping point” that the ...

Located along the shores of the South China Sea in Hainan province — a southern island sometimes referred to as China’s Hawaii — the coastal town of Tanmen used to be the home of a flourishing trade ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- At San Francisco's Presidio, wildlife ecologists are using nesting pods made with ground-up oyster shells, designed to attract and nurture tiny, growing oysters. It's a ...

Researchers obtained daily and hourly biogeochemical records dating from January 29, 2012 to December 9, 2013 of a live giant clam (Tridacna) shell collected from the South China Sea by examining its ...