Category: Environment
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Microdocs: Diversity
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuSJBYsku_8[/youtube] See more microdocs here
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World’s ocean winds and waves are growing
Bad news for ship captains and other mariners, good news for surfers and kitesurfers. Hat tip to Carrie Wind speeds and wave heights over the world’s oceans have been rising for the past quarter-century. It’s unclear if this is a short-term trend, or a symptom of longer-term climatic change. Either way, more frequent hurricanes and…
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Teaching sharks to eat lionfish
Lionfish are an exotic fish now found throughout the Greater Caribbean and eastern Atlantic that have become incredibly abundant on many reefs, especially in the Bahamas and off North Carolina. Lionfish are a piscivore (a fish that eats other fish) and were introduced from the Indo-Pacific by the aquarium trade in the late 1990s off…
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Science and Entertainment: A Much Needed Hybrid
Below is a guest post by my colleague Dr. Ellen Prager of Earth2Ocean, Inc. Ellen was the Director and Lead Scientist of the NOAA Aquarius Reef Base in Key Largo Florida when I first met her about five years ago. Like me, she has become increasingly concerned about the degradation of the ocean and the general…
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Hard men of marine ecology
Professor Paul Dayton of Scripps getting ready for a dive under the ice in Antarctica a really long time ago!
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The fish that launched a thousand ships, then disappeared
A recent analysis clinches the growing evidence that the North Atlantic is a unique region of the world ocean, and helps explain both its special vulnerability to fishing, and perhaps also its fundamental importance in the historical expansion of European influence around the globe. This is a big fish tale. Scientifically speaking, the body size…
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Japanese seafood’s fine-unless you eat it
A series of news outlets are reporting that sampled fish near the crippled Fukushima reactor are showing high levels of radioactivity, which isn’t too surprising since workers at the plant dump over 1000 tons of contaminated water into the ocean Monday night. Excellent. The findings are stoking fears in seafood markets and restaurants around the…
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Tiger Sharks vs Turtles
This is great footage of my crazy colleague Mike Heithaus working in Shark Bay, West Australia. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
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Diving deep into coral science
The Raleigh News & Observer has a nice piece about Karl Castillo, a post doc at UNC working with Justin Ries and myself. Karl is a native of Belize and was the author of a paper I blogged about last week here. – JB Karl Castillo was in his early 20s when he sat with…
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An antidote to gloom ‘n’ doom: Ocean chill
The Blue Planet set to music. Lean back . . . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jema_dTA8wM[/youtube]