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Surfing Storm Bay, Tasmania
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/49741687[/vimeo]
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An exit strategy for ghost fishing
I remember Paul Dayton passionately talking about ghost fishing at the Benthic Ecology Meeting about 15 years ago. I still don’t know whether in some places it is such a big problem that it is impacting species and ecosystems. Regardless, it is wasteful and morally abhorrent, if very difficult to eliminate. Ghost fishing is the…
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Seafood mislabeling in Belize
This post was co-authored with Courtney Cox, a PhD student in my lab at UNC, studying fisheries management and reef resilience in Belize. Our paper on seafood mislabeling in Belize is out in Conservation Letters (here). This paper is the fist of several from our project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Belize’s national ban on…
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What is it like to be a marine ecologist?
Below is a very nice interview with Dr. Lance Morgan of the Marine Conservation Institute about what it is like to be a marine ecologist. These are essentially the same responses I would have given. Even though Dr. Morgan works for an NGO and I am at an academic institution (for now) our day-to-day experiences and…
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Sea level rise for the west coast of the US
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gstw44DeSI&[/youtube]
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Blacktip reef shark
Blacktip reef shark from Inger Vandyke
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Want to be a marine biologist?
Michael Gil, a graduate student at University of Florida has recently created the next greatest pump-up video that features marine biologists at work in Moorea, French Polynesia. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAny2vpmRvg[/youtube]
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Presidential candidates on ocean health and policy
Sciencedebate.org has asked Barack Obama and Mitt Romney about their stance on ocean health and policy. The answers are somewhat boiler plate but may lend insight into what directions their administrations would take ocean policy. HT to Rich Aronson 10. Ocean Health. Scientists estimate that 75 percent of the world’s fisheries are in serious decline,…
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New study finds scientists work a lot
Who knew?! Reminds me of the Onion article National Science Foundation: Science Hard: For centuries, we have embraced the pursuit of scientific knowledge as one of the noblest and worthiest of human endeavors, one leading to the enrichment of mankind both today and for future generations,” said keynote speaker and NSF chairman Louis Farian. “However, a…
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Arctic sea ice reaches lowest extent ever recorded
from the UC Boulder National Snow and Ice Data Center: The blanket of sea ice floating on the Arctic Ocean melted to its lowest extent ever recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the University of Colorado Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center. On Aug. 26, the Arctic sea ice extent…