Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • Reduce your blue footprint in 2012

    Whenever we are on the outer banks for the xmas holidays – which thankfully is most years – we start the new year with a beach clean up along a mile long strength of one of our favorite beaches in the world: the national seashore between and Avon and Buxton. This year, we collected about the…

  • A manifesto for blogging professors

    Iv’e been looking for a manifesto for blogging professors.  Kevin Zelnio has come through with a new post on his EvoEcoLab site titled The message reigns over the medium.  It is long-form blogging at it’s best.  And it isn’t clear to me where exactly Kevin learned to be such a great writer (when he was a cook? A…

  • Leave a Message: shredding girl surfers!

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igUy2DvlVtw[/youtube] The athletes incude Carissa Moore (Hawaii), Lakey Peterson (USA), Laura Enever (Australia), Coco Ho (Hawaii), Byrne-Wickey Monyca (Hawaii) and Malia Manuel (Hawaii).

  • Top posts of the year from Breaching The Blue

    My vote for the most unique oceans blogger of 2011 is Mark Gibson at Breaching the Blue.  Mark’s posts are typically clear yet deep analysis of marine policy with very little of the fluff so common at most oceans blogs (mea culpa).  It is a go to site for fair and balanced fisheries news.  Here…

  • Ocean acidification can reduce the survival of larval fish

    Another great piece from Rob Painting at SkS: Fossil fuel-burning is acidifying the oceans and, up until recently, it has generally been thought that the greatest risk posed by ocean acidification was the change to seawater carbon chemistry. This is because rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide reduce the concentration of seawater carbonate ions, a vital…

  • Seriously, global warming is real

    A nice essay by Matt Bush (also see his response to the “climategate 2.0” non-scandal here): Urgh. Look, man-made global warming is real. This conversation is starting to bore me. I’ve had it thrice this week, with different people who I know aren’t stupid. It also really disturbs me. I don’t think deniers are gullible idiots, I just…

  • John Cook speaking at AGU

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdI3ocVGKk[/youtube]

  • Fact checking the 60 Minutes segment on Gardens of the Queen

    60 Minutes ran a really great piece on Jardines de la Reina or Gardens of the Queen (GQ), last night.  GQ is a spectacular reef off of Cuba’s south coast with abundant predators including goliath and black grouper and Caribbean reef sharks. My PhD student Abel Valdivia (seen in the video above) is from Cuba and GQ…

  • Polar bears debate causes of climate change

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIP71Lviys[/youtube]

  • Our Blue

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5HXyOgz2YA&sns=fb[/youtube]