Author: John Bruno
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Interview with Nancy Knowlton about marine biodiversity and climate change
There is a nice interview with Nancy Knowlton in Yale Environment 360, excerpted below: e360: Much of your earlier research was done in the Caribbean, in Jamaica. What was the state of the coral reefs in that part of the world at the time? And what kind of changes physically have you seen in recent decades? Knowlton: You…
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Beneath the Waves Film Festival 2012 selections
I am sooooo psyched for the 2012 Beneath the Waves Film Festival at the Benthic Ecology Meeting this Friday! [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/38736112[/vimeo]
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Reef Survey in 30 seconds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwk63tiFBg&[/youtube] by @AbelValdivia
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Coral reef MPAs 1: zoning
Ever since I started blogging roughly five years ago, Iv’e wanted to write a series on coral reef MPAs (Marine Protected Areas). But where to begin? There is so much to cover, e.g., the various classification schemes for MPAs, where they are and how much of the worlds reef habitats are covered, whether they are…
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Live tweets from the 2012 IUCN Chairs’ Meeting
I followed Dr Nick Dulvy’s live tweets of the meeting in Abu Dhabi and got a real sense of what was going on, who was there, and what was being discussed. I also learned a lot about cutting edge science on species endangerment, about several online info portals, etc. This is a great example of the…
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Kitesurfing Morocco
I went to Morocco to windsurf just after graduating (the last time) in the fall of 2000. We got skunked (no wind) so went to Tarifa, Spain, where we saw kiteboarding for the first time! From TDZ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/37390436[/vimeo]
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A new form of metazoan reproduction is discovered by AIMS scientists
I reviewed this paper and have been waiting anxiously for it to appear in print so I could share this remarkable discovery. In short, Dr Andrew Heyward and Dr Andrew Negri of the Australian Institute of Marine Science discovered that coral embryos can survive being broken apart into two small clusters of cells. The two new…
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Thousands of shark fins laid out to dry on a Hong Kong sidewalk
This is where these sharks would have ended up had the GNP not apprehended the boat. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/37750108[/vimeo] HT to Abel
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Fabián Pina Amargós wins a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation
Congratulations Fabián!!! Our good friend from Cuba Dr. Fabián Pina Amargós has won a very prestigious Pew Marine Conservation Fellowship. Fabian visited UNC last fall and gave an excellent lecture in my class on the conservation of coral reef fishes. Read more from Pew below and go here for the gringo version. Proyecto para mejorar la…
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The toxicity of surfing
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