4 articles
From 2013, sea star wasting liquefied stars from Alaska to Mexico and erased the sunflower star, a keystone urchin predator. The science, and the kelp fallout.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A field guide to finding the ochre sea star, reading the mussel line it maintains, and understanding what its recovery after wasting disease tells us.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
A Tidewright dispatch: the first sunflower star recorded on a long-running transect since the wasting years, and an honest crew argument about what one animal means.
Jack Callum ·
Sea star wasting disease erased billions of sunflower stars in a few years and reshaped whole kelp coasts. Here is what happened — and why hope is returning.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·