Author: John Bruno
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Climate Change and Marine Communities 2: What is climate change?
This is the second installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz. The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…
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Who is an author?
When you write a manuscript in any field in academic science, you have to determine who will be an author. (There is also the question of who is the first and corresponding author, but let’s ignore that for now.) Many a collaborative group has been tripped up by disagreements about this. It can be a…
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Climate Change and Marine Communities 1
My co-authors Chris Harley and Mike Burrows and I recently turned in a book chapter to the editor on “Climate Change and Marine Communities”. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz. The book is more or less a followup to…
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Mikono ya Wavuvi (In Fishermen’s Hands)
This excellent video is by Austin Humphries, a PhD student working with Tim McClanahan in Kenya on coral reef ecology and conservation. It recently won the People’s Choice Award at the Beneath the Waves Film Festival! Check it out.
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Visualizing Arctic sea ice loss
For a book chapter I’m working on with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows, Iv’e been looking for the best graphics science has to offer that visualize Arctic sea ice loss. Here are a few contenders. Advice and other suggestions welcome.
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Seal pup slip and slide
By popular demand, the video seen by 1.5 million people:
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The Feelies
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Galapagos Tubastrea
I took this image last week on an amazing wall on the northern side of Santiago island in the Galapagos. Such clear water and so many fish!
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New worries about slumping thermokarst
That’s right. Slumping thermokarst. Essentially thawing coastal permafrost in the arctic: A new paper in PNAS describing work by my UNC colleague Dr Rose Cory in Alaska on thermokarst slumping is shaking up the world of thermokarst experts and alarming thermokarst conservationists and collectors. But seriously, this is just one more sign of a positive feedback of global warming; the more…
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Penguin bloopers