Riding the marine heatwave: Contextualizing marine heatwave research with environmental data and life history

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) – defined as prolonged periods of anomalously high seawater temperatures (Hobday et al., 2016) – have emerged as influential, and disruptive, climate-change driven disturbances in coastal oceans, threatening marine biodiversity. Recent modeling efforts by scientists, and those reported in recent IPCC documents suggest MHWs will become more frequent and intense in the coming years. Our research group is studying MHWs on our local California coast - here, using local temperature data to monitor heatwaves, and in experiments to assess the response and resilience of ecologically and economically important marine invertebrate species.
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