Category: Blog
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Trophic cascade of the purple marsh crab
Don Strong, you are going to love this film. Not only does it animate one of your favorite ecological processes in a habitat you know and love; it even has an animated Dr Mark Bertness! The film is by Brown undergrad Stephanie Yin. It won the best student film competition at last week’s Beneath the Waves…
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In search of sharks and mermaids
That was Abel Valdivia’s talk title at #BEM2012 (not really). He just posted a nice piece on The Abaco Scientist (AKA Dr Craig Layman) explaining a poster he gave recently on his work that Iv’e reposted without permission below. Thanks Craig and Abel! I am currently a PhD graduate student in the John Bruno Lab…
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Gloop
This great video won the “peoples choice award” at the recent 2012 beneath the waves film festival. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/15918611[/vimeo] By Gaby Bastyra & Joe Churchman Gloop is a dark fairytale that follows the meteoric rise of plastic from its inception in Leo’s gloomy laboratory 100 years ago. Told like a Brother’s Grimm fable, Gloop offers a…
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Interview with Rachel Graham
Excerpted from the NYT. Read the full piece by Claudia Dreifus here. You are a citizen of Belize. Did you grow up here? No. I spent a large part of my childhood in Tunisia, that little tinderbox that last spring sparked so many changes in the world. I’m very excited to be from there. My…
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Now we are one
Happy Birthday to us… This week Seamonster is one year old. Faced with this special occasion, we’re all getting a bit misty-eyed and we just can’t help ourselves from taking a sentimental dip through our archive to grab out some of our favourite moments from the past 12 months. There’ll be plenty more new…
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Interview with Nancy Knowlton about marine biodiversity and climate change
There is a nice interview with Nancy Knowlton in Yale Environment 360, excerpted below: e360: Much of your earlier research was done in the Caribbean, in Jamaica. What was the state of the coral reefs in that part of the world at the time? And what kind of changes physically have you seen in recent decades? Knowlton: You…
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Reef Survey in 30 seconds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkwk63tiFBg&[/youtube] by @AbelValdivia
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Coral reef MPAs 1: zoning
Ever since I started blogging roughly five years ago, Iv’e wanted to write a series on coral reef MPAs (Marine Protected Areas). But where to begin? There is so much to cover, e.g., the various classification schemes for MPAs, where they are and how much of the worlds reef habitats are covered, whether they are…
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James Cameron could make history in a submarine
The media is buzzing today with news of James Cameron’s upcoming solo journey into the Challenger Deep. At 35,768 ft (more than 6.7 miles!) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, it’s the deepest spot on Earth. He broke a solo depth record yesterday during a test dive. Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh,…
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Live tweets from the 2012 IUCN Chairs’ Meeting
I followed Dr Nick Dulvy’s live tweets of the meeting in Abu Dhabi and got a real sense of what was going on, who was there, and what was being discussed. I also learned a lot about cutting edge science on species endangerment, about several online info portals, etc. This is a great example of the…