Author: John Bruno
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Tiger Sharks vs Turtles
This is great footage of my crazy colleague Mike Heithaus working in Shark Bay, West Australia. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
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Kitesurf Dub
From Ian Alldredge / TDZ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17927046[/vimeo]
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Diving deep into coral science
The Raleigh News & Observer has a nice piece about Karl Castillo, a post doc at UNC working with Justin Ries and myself. Karl is a native of Belize and was the author of a paper I blogged about last week here. – JB Karl Castillo was in his early 20s when he sat with…
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Ian Alldredge signs with Ben Wilson surf
World class kitesurfer Ian Alldredge – known as “freckles” to my daughters – has left Naish and signed with his pal Ben Wilson at BWS. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20478411[/vimeo]
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Radioactive Water Leaking Into Ocean From Japanese Nuclear Plant
You knew this was coming… From the NYT: Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near a crippled reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, safety officials said Saturday, the latest setback in the increasingly messy bid to regain control of the reactors. Although higher levels of radiation have…
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Where to learn about climate change
The availability of accurate, dependable, concise and clear information on anthropogenic climate change increases every year. This is a shortlist of my favorite sources. – JB 1) Start at SkepticalScience, easily the most informative outlet for straightforward information on global climate change. It is also one of the best science blogs on the web. Download…
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Haeckel bivalves
The first of many Ernst Haeckel images
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Impacts of the Japanese tsunami on ocean life
As terrible as the impacts of the Japanese tsunami have been, one issue barely being covered by the media is the potentially massive effects on ocean life and ecosystems. I can’t say too much as a scientist simply because there is no data on what is happening; nobody is measuring sediment input, toxin levels in…
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Huge kite loop
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6907197[/vimeo]
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Merchants of Doubt
I had the great pleasure of hosting Dr. Naomi Oreskes at UNC this week. She was here to give the Michael Polanyi lecture Wednesday evening (Polanyi was a scientist and philosopher famous for the development of the concept of tacit knowledge). She spoke to a packed room of 300 people about her incredible new book…