Author: John Bruno
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Sea level rise – California style
From Salon.com The New York Times this week reported that oceanographers believe “developed low-lying shorelines” such as San Francisco’s Embarcadero face “a possible rise of 14 inches in sea level by 2050” — just under 40 years from now. It’s not uncommon to read scientists’ predictions about rising sea levels and the crises they could cause.…
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Oceans retrospective trailer
OK, the movie has been out for a year, but I love this 2+ minute video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLbQrK6cXw[/youtube]
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Assessing the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on coastal fish populations
A nice article by Mark Derewicz (excerpted below) about work by my UNC colleague Dr. Joel Fodrie on the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill on coastal fish populations. [cincopa AUMAbmqKig7H] The fish are all right? Chris Baillie hauled the net onto the boat and dumped its contents in front of Joel Fodrie. They spread out the…
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The century of the environment and biology
Watch the commencement speech by Dr. E.O. Wilson at UNC last weekend. It is short and excellent. He talks about the conflicts between our stone age emotions, our medieval institutions and our god like technology, about biodiversity and the urgent need to transform how we protect and manage the living world. “There has been proportionately…
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A coral reef time machine
Great video about work by Dr. Karl Castillo (a post doc in my lab) and my UNC colleague Dr. Justin Ries on the effects of ocean temperature and acidification on coral growth and survival. You can read more about their research here and here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvy7hFhiMZU[/youtube]
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Let us eat (other people’s) fish
Should Americans really eat more fish? In a recent op-ed in the NYT titled “Let Us Eat Fish” Dr. Ray Hilborn, a fisheries scientist at the University of Washington, argued we should. Ray thinks that because some of the hundreds of fish populations harvested in U.S. waters appear to be recovering and approaching levels that…
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Ian Alldredge kitesurfing Rincon
[vimeo width=”500″ height=”300″]http://vimeo.com/22451159[/vimeo] From TDZ
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What fish is in a fillet-o-fish?
Ever wondered what you are eating when you bite into a fish sandwich and whether that species is fished sustainably? Probably not. Well in case you are, Climate Progress has a nice article about it. Read it here. And now a word from our sponsor (not really): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EeEDKErYJ4[/youtube]
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Coral bleaching on Ningaloo reef, Western Australia
When I was on stabbatical at UQ last year, I had the opportunity to work with a team of scientists from CSIRO and UWA on Ningaloo Reef in northwestern Australia. (read a blog post I wrote about the adventure here) Sadly, reports of very high water temperatures and immenent mass bleaching on this extremely remote…
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Whale shark aggregations!
Speaking of whale aggregations, check out this cool article at Deep Sea News about whale shark aggregations.