Jennifer Purcell

Western's Jennifer Purcell, a marine scientist at Western's Shannon Point Marine Center, is working with state and federal agencies to investigate a massive jellyfish bloom in Puget Sound.

Jellyfish blooms have been making waves over the last few decades, with reports that conglomerations of these gelatinous creatures seem to be on the rise. Scientists debate whether blooms are becoming more common globally due to human activities or whether people are simply noticing them more as…

Jellyfish blooms are on the rise and taking over the ocean, experts say. They may not look scary, but they pose a serious threat to regions that are just now entering their tourism seasons.
A horde of jellyfish forced the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in Sweden earlier this…

A "jellyfish bloom" may sound pretty, but it can get ugly fast. A swarm of moon jellyfish from the Baltic Sea were sucked into the cooling pipes of a nuclear power plant on the Swedish coast last week, shutting down one of the three units for four days. In 2008, another such "…

"Some alert readers recently spotted jellyfish in Hampton, specifically in Indian River Creek and Buckroe Beach. It's early for jellyfish, they said, noting the spongy swimmers don't normally appear until summertime.

The kind of jellyfish most people…