Sea Monster

Year: 2011

  • Acid test – the other carbon problem

    A well done movie about ocean acidification – the other carbon problem. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqCvcX7buo&[/youtube]

  • A Whale of A Shark

    In New Guinea, the world’s largest living fish share the water with local fishermen. Lucky for us, photographer Michael Aw was ready with his camera. The giant fish is hard to study in part because it is hard to find and track. By tagging individual specimens, scientists have learned that whale sharks can log thousands…

  • Yeti crab – the Movie!

    Live from the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Aberdeen, it’s . . . Yeti Crab – the Movie! Perhaps a bit of explanation is in order. We’re live (sort of) in Aberdeen with 953 of our closest friends and colleagues, catching up on the cutting edge of research on the wondrous and varied life…

  • 2011 Arctic ice minimum

    Another great – if gloomy – movie from Peter Sinclair, this one about arctic ice loss. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc_9nNTZg0&[/youtube] Also see this from NASA: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKgLVidLG4&[/youtube]

  • Monster waves

    I’m back from a surf trip to Cornwall – England’s South Westerly big toe that sticks out into the Atlantic, pointing across at America. And it just so happened that I arrived there at the same time as the tail winds from Huricane Katia, which meant that when I caught my first sight of the…

  • A salt marsh climate change experiment

    A few miles outside Washington, D.C., a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institution are predicting the impact elevated atmospheric carbon levels could have on our world. That’s nothing new, as scientists around the world work on the same problem every day. But what sets their work apart is what they’re studying to make predictions:…

  • Those damned jellyfish!

    A jellyfish sting has ended Diana Nyad’s final attempt to swim from Cuba to Miami. I can’t believe her run of bad luck. I still remember her first try.  From the AP: Her face and lips swollen from Portuguese man o’war stings, marathon swimmer Diana Nyad tried to remain positive about all she had accomplished in two…

  • This is kitesurfing

    Ian Alldredge and crew in Mexico on a small day.  From The Dredge Zone.  Ian keeps getting better. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28464795[/vimeo]

  • Cat got your fish?

    A great op-ed by Paul Greenberg (of Four Fish fame) in the NYT (hat tip to my UNC colleague, tuna goddess Dr. Elizabeth Havice). I suspect many people will be surprised to learn the true fate of so many of the wild fish we catch. I just lectured about this in my Marine Ecology course, and made…

  • Sharks in the Bahamas

    From Nat Geo’s Photo of the Day series by Wilfried Niedermayr.  The Bahamas wisely banned shark fishing earlier this year.