Author: John Bruno
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Hurricane Sandy update
I’m getting word that the ocean is already washing over Highway 12 north of Rodanthe. I fear Sandy is going to cause extensive flooding and damage on the Outer Banks. Monday’s full moon, the huge size, slow movement, and position of this storm and the warmth of the Gulf Stream are all aligning for maximum impact.…
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Climate of doubt
Related to the Climate Silence of both of this years presidential candidates is a successful campaign to confuse the public about the reality of climate change. See a great documentary R movie on it that aired Tuesday night on PBS HBO: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMTVGBGs_40&[/youtube]
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This is one tough Mako shark
These photos of a shortfin mako shark are amazing (source). We found one dead shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus on the pirate fishing vessel we boarded in the Galapagos in 2011. They are more impressive alive. HT to Dr Isabelle Cote AKA @redlipblenny Punching above her weight: The pugnacious Mako refused to be intimidated by the…
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Silence of the lambs
Iv’e been doing my best to avoid all coverage of – even mention of – the elections that are upon us. I made the mistake of tuning in to the second debate (online) and I watched in astonishment as both candidates talked for many minutes about coal, oil, energy and oil prices without ever mentioning…
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Scraping the seafloor smooth
The editorial below is from the NYTand references a new study in Nature (Puig et al 2012). As described by Lucas Laursen: Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures…For almost a century, fishing fleets have trawled…
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Is it too late to be a marine biologist?
This morning I got this email from a SeaMonster reader: I am the 26 year old daughter of an entomologist and horticulturist who has finally found her calling in marine conservation and a frequent reader of Sea Monster, and have decided to go back to university and get another degree in Biology in order to…
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Mangrove root critters
Virginia Schutte, a former undergraduate student in my lab, is doing her PhD with the wonderful Jeb Byers at UG. She is working on mangrove root epibionts (inverts that live underwater on mangrove roots), which I happen to love! In fact, I wanted to do a post doc on them many moons ago. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wCP9FsMq6o&[/youtube] Vote…
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News flash: global warming continues (Nuccitelli et al. 2012)
from SkS: We are very pleased to report on a new paper in press at Physics Letters A (PLA) by the Skeptical Science team and oceanography expert John Church. In typical SkS international coordination style, the paper’s authors included an American (Dana Nuccitelli), a Canadian (Robert Way), a New Zealander (Rob Painting), and two Australians…
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coral reefs of Fiji – amazing
relax and enjoy [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne0oSoQIbQI&[/youtube]
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Monbiot on paper parks
UK’s George Monbiot wrote about the absurdity that is the UK’s marine reserve system in his column in the Guardian recently (HT to Helen). It is great to see George join a tiny but growing number of voices criticizing “MPAs” (AKA Marine Protected Areas) as a solution to overfishing and other ocean problems. The UK’s marine reserves…