Author: John Bruno
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Scallopocalypse
Hurricane Sandy passed southwest of Nantucket, but the superstorm lashed the island with high winds, and caused significant coastal flooding & beach erosion. For a time, the island was effectively cut off from the mainland, with all flights and ferry service cancelled, and Nantucket Harbor closed.
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Drew Harvell at work in the coral triangle
My friend, collaborator and post-doc advisor Dr Drew Harvell of Cornell University has published three articles in the New York Times Scientists at Work series about her current trip to the coral triangle. In her Feb 1 post Drew describes her visit to the reefs of Papua, some pristine and diverse, some ravaged by dynamite fishing:…
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State of the union: climate change edition
To my and many people’s surprise, Prez Obama talked quite a lot about climate change in the State of The Union address tonight. Below is the climate change related text (from here). Lets hope these nice words are followed with action. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen…
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What’s new in climate change science
There has been a lot going on with climate change science recently. And Iv’e been writing a review paper on climate change and marine communities and have been impressed with how rapidly the field is developing. Just a hint of what is out there: The Australian heat wave This is one of the big stories…
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Fungia up close
I took this close up photo of the coral Fungia last week off the central Pacific island of Raiatea while on an amazing cruise on the SSV Robert C Seamans with SEA Semester. I used the incredible new Olympus Tough camera. Those are tentacles you can see protruding from the…
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IPCC draft report leaked – shows global warming NOT due to the sun
In case you or someone you know (and if this is the case, science has shown there is a 100,000,000-to-1 chance they a) are your parents, b) are AARP members, c) are republicans, d) live in the south, e) watch Fox news) were suckered in by the most recent climate change denier propaganda, here is…
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Manta Ray of Hope
We showed this film from Blue Sphere Media at the Beneath the Waves film fest at UNC a few weeks ago and it was a crowd favorite.
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Parko is this year’s world surfing champ!
Joel Parkinson (AUS), 31, has claimed his maiden ASP World Title today at the final stop of the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) season, the Billabong Pipe Masters. See yesterdays highlights below:
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Fragile Legacy – Tedx talk about the oceans with Dr Drew Harvell
This is a new TedX talk by famed marine biologist, Dr Drew Harvell of Cornell University. Drew is a leader in coral reef science, disease ecology, invertebrate development and evolutionary ecology and an expert on coral reef gorgonians (among other things). Science, art and history merge seamlessly in the fragile works of Leopold and Rudolph…
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Jane Lubchenco leaving NOAA
NOAA director Dr Jane Lubchenco has formally announced she is stepping down as director of NOAA to return to Oregon and presumably to her position as a Professor at Oregon State. As far as I know, this is entirely for family reasons; Jane has been geographically separated from her husband, famed marine ecologist Bruce Menge,…