SeaMonster blog
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My village, my lobster
Check out the trailer to this documentary from Nomading Films about commercial lobster diving in Nicaragua. According to their website, a new law will be passed later this year banning commercial diving in the country in an attempt to curb the human cost of the industry. 90% of the lobsters caught in Nicaragua end up…
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More underwater miniatures
Here’s another batch of underwater miniatures from Scubazoo’s Jason Isley.
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Christmas tree worm
Christmas tree worms are polychaetes (marine segmented worms) that live in the skeletons of corals. They retract their feeding appendage (seen above) when threatened. You can see the little trap door that closes behind them on the upper right I took this close up photo off the central Pacific island of Raiatea while on a cruise on the SSV Robert C…
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Scallopocalypse
Hurricane Sandy passed southwest of Nantucket, but the superstorm lashed the island with high winds, and caused significant coastal flooding & beach erosion. For a time, the island was effectively cut off from the mainland, with all flights and ferry service cancelled, and Nantucket Harbor closed.
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Drew Harvell at work in the coral triangle
My friend, collaborator and post-doc advisor Dr Drew Harvell of Cornell University has published three articles in the New York Times Scientists at Work series about her current trip to the coral triangle. In her Feb 1 post Drew describes her visit to the reefs of Papua, some pristine and diverse, some ravaged by dynamite fishing:…
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State of the union: climate change edition
To my and many people’s surprise, Prez Obama talked quite a lot about climate change in the State of The Union address tonight. Below is the climate change related text (from here). Lets hope these nice words are followed with action. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen…
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Coolification of scientists – live!
[Editor’s note: This is the second guest post from our intrepid graduate student teachers and heroes of scientific awesomeness Lindsey Kraatz, Sam Lake, Daniel Maxey, and Stephanie Salisbury. This post is a companion to their interview on NPR, which you can listen to here: With Good Reason. Thanks for making us all seem cooler. Y’all rock!]…
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Tiny people underwater – a whole new perspective on ocean life
Check out these brilliant images from Scubazoo’s Jason Isley. He’s been setting up miniature scenes underwater that give a whole new perspective on ocean life.
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The ZEN of seagrass
David Williard of The College of William and Mary has done a nice video featuring our work in the Zostera Experimental Network (ZEN): NOTE: The dude abides.
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Marine Protected Areas: “It’s evidence and the economy, stupid”
Tom Hooper ran ‘Finding Sanctuary’ one of four regional stakeholder-led projects to set up a new generation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) around the English coasts and offshore waters. In a guest post for Seamonster, Tom explains how England nearly got an ecologically coherent MPA network in 2013 and the emerging challenges of scientific evidence…
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