Sea Monster

Year: 2011

  • Climate Change Will Lead to the Extinction of Coral Reef Fish

    One of the many factors causing the global loss of reef building corals is anthropogenic climate change, which is slowly warming the world’s oceans. When summertime temperatures are warmer than usual, corals can die from “bleaching” and disease outbreaks. This in turn is devastating for the countless organisms that inhabit coral reefs. A new paper…

  • Coconut-carrying octopus

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk&feature[/youtube]

  • Tiger Sharks vs Turtles

    This is great footage of my crazy colleague Mike Heithaus working in Shark Bay, West Australia. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

  • Kitesurf Dub

    From Ian Alldredge / TDZ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17927046[/vimeo]

  • Diving deep into coral science

    The Raleigh News & Observer has a nice piece about Karl Castillo, a post doc at UNC working with Justin Ries and myself.  Karl is a native of Belize and was the author of a paper I blogged about last week here. – JB Karl Castillo was in his early 20s when he sat with…

  • An antidote to gloom ‘n’ doom: Ocean chill

    The Blue Planet set to music. Lean back . . . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jema_dTA8wM[/youtube]

  • Have we reached “peak fish”?

    During the 20th century fishing became a heavy industry, expanding rapidly to the global scale, and fishing pressure now appears to be near—if not beyond—the ocean’s capacity to provide. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently reported that “the maximum wild capture fisheries potential from the world’s oceans has probably been…

  • Ian Alldredge signs with Ben Wilson surf

    World class kitesurfer Ian Alldredge – known as “freckles” to my daughters – has left Naish and signed with his pal Ben Wilson at BWS. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20478411[/vimeo]

  • Radioactive Water Leaking Into Ocean From Japanese Nuclear Plant

    You knew this was coming… From the NYT: Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near a crippled reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, safety officials said Saturday, the latest setback in the increasingly messy bid to regain control of the reactors. Although higher levels of radiation have…

  • Daily Sea Monster: The earthquake fish

    The largest ecosystem on the planet is also the most mysterious–the bathypelagic or “midnight zone“, that thick layer of  seemingly monotonous dark water between the film of sunlit surface ocean above, where the alchemy of photosynthesis spins sunlight into the tiny algal cells that feed the rest of the ocean, and the cold dark desert…