Category: Blog
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Flying Penguins
I was perched behind a rock, trying to focus my camera on the blue-eyed shag swimming in our harbor, when this Chinstrap penguin leapt out of the water. He surprised me about as badly as I surprised him! Happy Monday, everyone. I’m in Antarctica! Find my polar posts for SeaMonster here, or check out xyzena.com…
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On this day in 1642 . . .
. . . the great physicist, applied mathematician, and astronomer Galileo Galilei passed from this world into the annals of history, having spent the last ten of his 77 years on Earth under house arrest for the crime of telling the truth. More specifically, for asserting that the movements of heavenly bodies he had deduced…
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Marine Ecologist Kristin Aquilino
A nice profile of marine ecology PhD student Kristin Aquilino. Kristin works in the Stachowicz lab at UC Davis on marine biodiversity. This video was filmed and edited by Neil Losin, Kelvin Gorospe, and Annie Schmidt (narration by Kelvin Gorospe). [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/19279147[/vimeo]
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Reduce your blue footprint in 2012
Whenever we are on the outer banks for the xmas holidays – which thankfully is most years – we start the new year with a beach clean up along a mile long strength of one of our favorite beaches in the world: the national seashore between and Avon and Buxton. This year, we collected about the…
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The blogging professor manifesto: A morning-after perspective
Have social media seeded a communications renaissance in science and if so, what is limiting its growth? My colleagues Kevin Zelnio of SciAm’s EvoEcoLab (and Deep-Sea News), and John Bruno right here at SeaMonster, recently started a fascinating conversation on these topics. Kevin’s excellent essay noted that scientists have many reasons for going online, but…
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A manifesto for blogging professors
Iv’e been looking for a manifesto for blogging professors. Kevin Zelnio has come through with a new post on his EvoEcoLab site titled The message reigns over the medium. It is long-form blogging at it’s best. And it isn’t clear to me where exactly Kevin learned to be such a great writer (when he was a cook? A…
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‘Tis the season to be hatching…
Fa la la la la, la la la la! As a Northern Hemispherite, I found it odd to be decking the halls within a week of celebrating the Summer Solstice, but apparently the Antarctic locals know better. Perfectly-timed with the “warm” season came the arrival of a new generation – penguin chicks are hatching all…
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Ocean acidification can reduce the survival of larval fish
Another great piece from Rob Painting at SkS: Fossil fuel-burning is acidifying the oceans and, up until recently, it has generally been thought that the greatest risk posed by ocean acidification was the change to seawater carbon chemistry. This is because rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide reduce the concentration of seawater carbonate ions, a vital…
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John Cook speaking at AGU
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdI3ocVGKk[/youtube]
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Fact checking the 60 Minutes segment on Gardens of the Queen
60 Minutes ran a really great piece on Jardines de la Reina or Gardens of the Queen (GQ), last night. GQ is a spectacular reef off of Cuba’s south coast with abundant predators including goliath and black grouper and Caribbean reef sharks. My PhD student Abel Valdivia (seen in the video above) is from Cuba and GQ…