Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Casey E. Brayton
Birds as Indicators of Ecosystem Health
by Jessica Blakely and Casey Brayton November 2016 How can you tell where a tiny forage fish like the sand lance spends its days? Look at what’s eating it. Popular recreational and commercial fishing species such as Atlantic cod, halibut, flounder and monkfish rely on sand lance as a staple of their diets. These forage fish are also on the menus for predators like humpback whales and many kinds of seabirds, including the great shearwater.
Responding to Coral Bleaching in the National Marine Sanctuary System
By Casey Brayton July 2016 This article is Part Two of a feature on how coral bleaching will affect the National Marine Sanctuary System. For a primer on coral bleaching, read Part One here. "How many hits do corals have to take before they don't come back at all?" questioned Superintendent Athline Clark of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in response to a new NOAA outlook predicting extensive coral bleaching through 2016.
How is coral bleaching affecting national marine sanctuaries?
By Casey Brayton June 2016 Gliding through the crystal blue seas of Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, you glance down into a scene straight out of a kaleidoscope: dazzling yellow and orange parrotfish dart in and out of view, while anemones dance softly in the current. Below, you spot rainbow sponges clinging to corals of emerald, lilac, pink, and…white? Since 2014, our ocean has been in the middle of its largest and most damaging coral bleaching event in recorded history.
Antarctic offshore polynyas linked to Southern Hemisphere climate anomalies
Abstract Offshore Antarctic polynyas—large openings in the winter sea ice cover—are thought to be maintained by a rapid ventilation of deep-ocean heat through convective mixing. These rare phenomena may alter abyssal properties and circulation, yet their formation mechanisms are not well understood. Here we demonstrate that concurrent upper-ocean preconditioning and meteorological perturbations are responsible for the appearance of polynyas in the Weddell Sea region of the Southern Ocean.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Casey E.
Contact Casey E., search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack