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Scraping the seafloor smooth
The editorial below is from the NYTand references a new study in Nature (Puig et al 2012). As described by Lucas Laursen: Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures…For almost a century, fishing fleets have trawled…
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Is it too late to be a marine biologist?
This morning I got this email from a SeaMonster reader: I am the 26 year old daughter of an entomologist and horticulturist who has finally found her calling in marine conservation and a frequent reader of Sea Monster, and have decided to go back to university and get another degree in Biology in order to…
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Mangrove root critters
Virginia Schutte, a former undergraduate student in my lab, is doing her PhD with the wonderful Jeb Byers at UG. She is working on mangrove root epibionts (inverts that live underwater on mangrove roots), which I happen to love! In fact, I wanted to do a post doc on them many moons ago. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wCP9FsMq6o&[/youtube] Vote…
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News flash: global warming continues (Nuccitelli et al. 2012)
from SkS: We are very pleased to report on a new paper in press at Physics Letters A (PLA) by the Skeptical Science team and oceanography expert John Church. In typical SkS international coordination style, the paper’s authors included an American (Dana Nuccitelli), a Canadian (Robert Way), a New Zealander (Rob Painting), and two Australians…
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coral reefs of Fiji – amazing
relax and enjoy [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne0oSoQIbQI&[/youtube]
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18 year-old surfing phenom,Tyler Wright
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpSHqttORdo&[/youtube] Teaching the next generation of gromettes: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJUqtFkUwlE&[/youtube]
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Drew Harvell’s Palmyra diary
My friend, colleague and post doc mentor Dr Drew Harvell of Cornell Uni is on Palmyra Atoll, a tiny coral island in the central Pacific. Drew is leading a coral disease workshop and doing field work on this very pristine coral reef. I’m jealous! She is blogging about her work and experiences here. See more of…
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What does a J-Bay tube look like from the inside?
filmed in J-Bay South Africa [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/24414571[/vimeo]
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BLUE Recap Day 1 to 3
Below is a guest post by wildlife photographer extraordinaire Daniel Fox of the Wild Image Project. The dust has settled and people have finally been able to catch their breath. It is a week now since the Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit ended. 2012 will be remembered as the year where everything changed for…
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Swimming with Sea Monsters
From the creators of Walking with Dinosaurs comes an epic documentary hosted by Nigel Marven which takes you to the 7 most dangerous seas ever and an Earth’s history full of sea monsters! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MissoCefH-w[/youtube]