Author: John Bruno
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Shark week with Kelly Slater
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/47538086[/vimeo]
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Why we know the earth is warming and that human activities are responsible
In a piece about a new finding from the BEST project, SkS did a nice job explaining why we know the earth is warming and that human activities are responsible: 1) Basic physics – human fossil fuel combustion has increased the greenhouse effect, causing a global energy imbalance, which the planet responds to by warming. Over…
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Greenland’s frozen coasts expedition
Check out this really cool research expedition blog, Greenland’s Frozen Coast Expedition, from WHOI research scientist Ben Harden. On 26 July, 2012 our ocean-science party, with members from Iceland, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States, will board the northbound British Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross in Reykjavik, Iceland for a thirty-day expedition along the…
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Reunion island surfers calling for shark massacre
I’m so disappointed to read about the surfers of Reunion island calling for sharks to be fished and removed from a marine reserve after several surfers were attacked (some fatally): After third shark attack fatality, Protesters ask Prefect of Reunion Island to allow shark fishing in Marine Reserve. In the aftermath of the latest fatal shark…
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Climate change is here — and worse than we thought
Below is a repost of an op-ed by Dr. James Hansen, director NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, that ran in the Washington Post last Friday, August 3. When I testified before the Senate in the hot summer of 1988 , I warned of the kind of future that climate change would bring to us and our planet.…
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Tiger shark
By Austin Gallagher, shot in the Bahamas.
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New book on metabolic ecology
I was lucky enough to be invited to coauthor a chapter in the now available book Metabolic Ecology: A Scaling Approach (available at Amazon in paperback and as an ebook!). “Most of ecology is about metabolism: the ways that organisms use energy and materials. The energy requirements of individuals – their metabolic rates – vary…
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Study finds forereef corals most susceptible to warming
Three of my UNC colleagues (including Karl Castillo and Justin Ries) just published an excellent paper in Nature Climate Change (Castillo et al. 2012) “Decline of forereef corals in response to recent warming linked to history of thermal exposure“. The team used a large pneumatic drill to extract cores from 13 colonies of Siderastrea siderea off…
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Yes, North Carolina sea level really is rising
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmW_EQzU_qI&[/youtube]
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Consensus statement on climate change and coral reefs
This comes from the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, meeting in Cairns this week. I think the statement is largely accurate, although it exaggerates threats to corals from local factors like fishing and pollution. The second phrase of the final sentence (in bold) is demonstrably false; “A concerted effort to preserve reefs for the future…