Sea Monster

Category: Environment

  • Antarctic Oceanography: Then & Now

    THEN: …and NOW: These days, the plankton nets are a little larger. There are satellite phones and internet connections. We have GPS technology, hot tubs, and widescreen TVs. And the ships’ hulls are a little more, uh… reinforced? Life on an Antarctic research vessel may be less unpredictable, but it is no less magical in…

  • Underwater beetle – but not the insect variety

    I’m not a great car fan, but I’ve been in love with the cute curves of VW beetles for a long time (and perhaps one day I’ll get one). And I’m completely in love with this new art installation by Jason de Caires Taylor. It’s called Anthropocene, it’s installed on the sea bed 8 m…

  • Demon Fish by Juliet Eilperin

    WaPost environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin was on the Diane Rehm Show Wednesday talking about her new book “Demon Fish”. I haven’t read the book, but she did a nice job talking about sharks, their value and shark conservation.  And her video below is really good. Listen to the show here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LekzVpcAoMU&[/youtube]

  • Yao Ming ?? : Shark Fin Soup

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJG7RaLX-DM&[/youtube]

  • Aussie author speaks out for marine reserves

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoSV2W29Do&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Tim Winton wrote one of my all-time favourite books Blue Back, a beautiful ‘contemporary fable’ about a boy who grows up in Western Australia, spending most of his time diving and swimming in the ocean. He makes friends with an enormous fish and decides to become a marine biologist so he can learn what…

  • Grouper spawning aggregations

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnkv38iTy8&feature[/youtube]

  • Shark Conservation Act of 2010

    Matt Rand, Director of  Global Shark Conservation at Pew, talks about the Shark Conservation Act of 2010 and shark finning. Interestingly, according to Wikipedia, in 2009 “a group of shark bite victims visited 25 senators and asked the lawmakers to protect sharks and support the act and end finning, where a shark’s fins are cut off and the…

  • Cliff notes for the EPIC SM fisheries debate

    Here, at Breaching the Blue, Mark Gibson’s great blog. Also check out his rundown of yesterdays Ocean day coverage here.

  • Laura Bush on marine reserves

    A great op-ed in the WSJ by Laura Bush on the importance of marine reserves celebrating the admirable legacy of her husband in implementing several massive marine reserves. Our ocean frontiers are disappearing, and it is up to us to conserve the most important wild areas that remain. Our first national park was named not…

  • Cordelia Banks – Caribbean jewel

    [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/23529808[/vimeo] Cordelia Banks in Honduras contains some of the healthiest coral reefs in the Caribbean. Check out this video by filmmaker Jon Slayer.