Author: John Bruno
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New tools for science collaboration
The problem with science is email. You all know what I mean. Nearly everything we do is done via email. On the one hand, email is faster than snail mail and enables me to effortlessly share large amounts of information via attachments, links, etc. Email – even more than Word, r, and Excel – is the nexus…
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Threatened staghorn coral invades Fort Lauderdale!
Last week I was visiting FIU and talking with Lionfish guru Zack Judd when the topic of the Acropora range shift came up. He and Laura Bhatti wanted to take me to do something fun on my last day in Miami. So we decided on snorkeling off the beach on the world famous Fort Lauderdale strip…
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Coral reef resilience: a biogeographic perspective
Coral reefs are affected by a large range of disturbances including disease, bleaching, storms, and Acanthaster planci, also known as crown of thorn starfish (COTS) outbreaks. There appears to be a lot of variation of how much coral cover is affected by physical and biological disturbances and in how quickly coral communities recover from it. Those two…
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Recent and future impacts of ocean warming on marine biodiversity
I am a (relatively junior) member of an NCEAS/NSF funded international working group that is assessing how climate change is affecting ocean ecosystems. Today, we published our third major paper (in Nature; Burrows et al. 2014), that predicts how ocean warming will affect global patterns of Biodiversity. Read a nice non-technical summary here and a nice summary…
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Top 5 Things I Learned at The Benthic Ecology Meeting 2014
Justin Baumann has a very nice piece on his first experience at the Benthic Ecology Meeting here. I was really impressed by his insight and the general maturity of his post. I am on Justin’s committee but I haven’t interacted with him enough to get this clear a sense of what he is doing and thinking.…
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Congress considers Magnuson-Stevens
Note, below are materials for a guest lecture I am giving tomorrow in Dr. Elizabeth Havice‘s Geography 435: Environmental Politics class (at UNC). Congress is currently considering reauthorizing (and tweaking) the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. A National Academy of Science report found that the law has worked relatively well (e.g., in reducing the number of…
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Ovik Banerjee 1989-2014
I regret sharing the devastating news that Ovik Banerjee passed away last Monday. He was only 24. Ovik worked in our lab in 2011. He and Amanda and Juan de spent the summer that year in Muisne Ecuador, working on a mangrove restoration – blue carbon project (DelVecchia et al. 2013). This is what Ovik…
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Pipeline as you’ve never seen it before
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Scientists as advocates and is climate change really bo-ho-horing?
There has been a broad, intense, and interesting discussion about science outreach sparked by Gavin Schmidt’s talk at AGU this year (below). The Yale forum has a great piece on it, breaking down some of Gavin’s main points: Scientists must be careful, however, and follow a handful of rules of engagement that will protect their…
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Just a green crab, doin green crab thangs
I love science rap. Especially rap by Eric Axelman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brTKwGgK8KA