Category: Blog
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Arctic sea ice thickness video!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bAwK8bVrNA&[/youtube]
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And everyone’s huggin’ each other and swimmin’ through this liquid space atmosphere
That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Verbatim, and there’s more where that came from, some of it surprisingly coherent. From the Ocean Rap Archive: Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers, lover of the Ocean, circa 1990: ht to Lars Gamfeldt
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Global warming continues to heat the oceans
This is a repost from Skeptical Science written by Dana1981: Levitus et al. had previously published updated ocean heat content (OHC) data on the National Oceanic Data Center (NODC) website, labeled as “Levitus et al. in preparation” (Figure 1). Figure 1: Global OHC for the upper 2000 meters of oceans (NODC) Levitus et al. (2012) is now…
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Obama speaks at UNC on importance of higher education
I had the treat of a lifetime yesterday. I attended (along with 8000 other members of the Carolina community) a speech by a sitting US president (only the 7th in the 200+ year history of Carolina). President Obama talked about the critical role of higher education in our country’s economic and social fabric. If we…
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Weighing advocacy and objectivity as a junior scientist
Speaking out: weighing advocacy and objectivity as a junior scientist Thomas A Morrison, Matthew P Ayres (2010) Speaking out: weighing advocacy and objectivity as a junior scientist. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 50-5 Thomas A Morrison (graduate student) Ecologists wear many hats, and some fit better than others. One…
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Tundra Connections: Mothers & Cubs live today!
Tundra Connections, an amazing online outreach platform produced by Polar Bears International will be running a live show today about mum and cub polar bears from the arctic! Learn more here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z69k5_L_6B0&[/youtube]
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Clash of the fisheries titans
If you missed last Monday’s panel discussion “Are fisheries turning the corner” organized by the Nicholas Institute at Duke, you can watch the video below! Also check out Clare “@SeaFiez” Fieseler’s incredible Storify of it here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKsgJ1C0qyg&f[/youtube]
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Ecologists and environmentalism
I love this essay by Ecology EIC and former Don of the Tallahassee Mafia Don Strong. I bring up his argument, that like art historians, ecologists should not be hesitant to defend what they study, whenever someone asks if I think it is alright for scientists to be advocates: Of course it is! Don’t you think…
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Advocacy and science
An excerpt from Peterson et al 1997 on advocacy, science, ecology and managers. Peterson, G., S. Pope, G. A. De Leo, M.A. Janssen, J.R. Malcolm, J.M. Parody, G. Hood, and M. North. 1997. Ecology, ethics, and advocacy. Conservation Ecology [online] 1(1): 17. Ecologists are frequently confronted with situations that they feel are wrong. However, it is…
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Lawsuit launched to protect habitat for Florida’s Loggerhead sea turtles
The Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network (SeaTurtles.org) filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Obama administration today seeking to protect critical habitat for imperiled loggerhead sea turtles on Florida’s nesting beaches and marine waters in the Atlantic. Florida beaches, which host the largest nesting population of loggerheads in the…