Year: 2011
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Do the stingray shuffle
If you happened to be listening to BBC Radio 4 today, you might have heard me searching for dwarf seahorses in Tampa Bay, Florida. As I’m wading about between patches of seagrass I declare that we’re all doing the ‘stingray shuffle’. The host of the radio show, Saving Species, had a good chuckle and wondered if…
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Life Beneath the Mangroves
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/31662472[/vimeo]
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Chesapeake resurrection? Dead zones coming back to life
Living here on the shores of the great Chesapeake Bay it’s sometimes challenging to keep the old chin up and maintain a positive attitude, what with the constant drumbeat of failing report cards, increasingly murky water, receding acreage of seagrass meadows, and ever growing list of once fabulously abundant fish and shellfish that are now…
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penguin fight!
…complete with kicking and slapping, like a good old-fashioned high school cafeteria fight. These particular Adelie penguins make their home on Torgersen Island, near Palmer Station, and build nests out of pebbles. It’s mating season here in Antarctica – the stakes are high, and choice pebbles are something worth fighting over. I’m in Antarctica! Click…
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Kelly Slater wins 11th world title
Yesterday at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X_UMGQfzsY&feature=share[/youtube]
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Rock Lobster
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqKRGW6_rw[/youtube]
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Between the harvest: internationally banned. legally harvested.
Check out this beautiful trailer to a short documentary about collecting olive ridley turtle eggs during their mass nesting or ‘arribadas’ (arrival by the sea) in Ostional, Costa Rica. From the Between the Harvest website: Told through the eyes of both people and turtles, this short documentary delves into one of the biggest controversies in the marine world:…
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Shipwrecks: fair game treasure or sacred sites?
Do shipwrecks need protecting? The answer seems to be a resounding No, judging by the lack of enthusiasm globally for a decade-old treaty aimed at doing just that. From Blackbeard’s pirate ship to WWII war graves there are thought to be 3 million…
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Volvo Ocean Race starts today!
A round-the-world yacht race, held only once every three years, begins today! Skippers and crew on the handful of elite teams entered in the Volvo Ocean Race will spend the next nine months traveling nearly 40,000 nautical miles. All teams will race in Volvo Open 70s, making for a level playing field and awesome speed.…
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Ocean salinity from space!
From the new NASA Aquarius satellite. According to RealClimate: The patterns are not particularly surprising, there is higher salinity in the sub-tropical evaporative regions, lower salinity near the equator (because of the rain!), and particularly low salinity near big river outflows (the Amazon plume stands out clearly). However, as we noted earlier, the main interest…