March 5, 2020 By Martin Wisckol The Mercury News
While 10 or more of Southern California’s 27 offshore oil rigs could be closed in the next decade, there’s a push to preserve the platforms’ habitat-rich underwater bases as artificial reefs — and possibly transform the tops into windmills, sea farms or marine research centers. But there’s a problem.
Microbes Point the Way to Shipwrecks
February 21, 2020 By Katherine Kornei The New York Times
Distinct microbiomes flourish around sunken ships as they become artificial reefs, new research in the Gulf of Mexico reveals.