Sea Monster

Author: John Bruno

  • Stellers Sea Cow

    I am in the Galapagos Islands reading The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts. I often buy ocean gloom-n-doom non-fiction, read a chapter, then put it on my shelf. This one is different. Dr. Roberts is an academic marine ecologist based at the University of York in England.  He is highly respected as a…

  • SeaMonster love

    Mark Derewicz has a nice piece at Endeavors about his rediscovery of the ocean – thanks to his son’s passion for it – and some very kind words about SeaMontser: I’m falling back in love with the ocean, and I have my four-year-old son to thank. When I was a kid, every summer my parents took…

  • Breaking news: Shark fishing banned in the Bahamas!

    The BBC is reporting that shark fishing has been banned in the Bahamas!  About time. My lab is working on the role of sharks and other top predators in coral reef food webs and one of the few places in the Caribbean that we can go to work with sharks is the Bahamas. This ban went…

  • Ove Hoegh-Guldberg on the state of the GBR

    Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, has responded to Bob Carter’s recent characterization of the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef being in “fine fettle”, i.e., good health. What’s the current state of the GBR (i.e. is it really “in fine fettle”)? Despite being one of the best managed marine ecosystems…

  • Weekly ocean news round up

    Plastic in Lanternfish, pirate fisherman, international fishing politics, good news about Right Whales, the weekly MSM account of a giant squid washing ashore, just for Helen the newest ocean craze “free dive racing“, and much more!  All at the weekly ocean news round up at Breaching The Blue here.

  • Lionfish Invasion, part 3

    [wpvideo xHLnpP4y] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.

  • How to Pick a Cherry

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxE3uwHECs&f[/youtube] To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC this week, SeaMonster is running a series of Peter Sinclair’s fun, educational videos about Anthropogenic Climate Change.

  • Weekly ocean news round up

    Shark sanctuaries, seafood choices (and their economics), another ocean gloom-n-doom report, lots of chatter about sustainable fisheries and overfishing, baby octopi, and much more!  All at the weekly ocean news round up at Breaching The Blue here.

  • Lionfish Invasion, part 2

    [wpvideo o9JbcCYw] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.

  • What the ice cores tell us

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G80mIbF5yEg&[/youtube] To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC this week, SeaMonster is running a series of Peter Sinclair’s fun, educational videos about Anthropogenic Climate Change.