SeaMonster blog
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Argonaut pops out of its shell
This week fishermen off California snagged an unusual visitor to their temperature waters – a beautiful female argonaut. They took her to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and here’s a video of her popping out of her shell. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBFypLcgtE[/youtube]
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Seas without a shore
Tintype seahorses. Very nice. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qH5wPa4djA[/youtube] I love Chris Anthony’s images of dried seahorses and strange people in masks climbing out of the sea in his upcoming book Seas without a shore. And he’s just made his target over on kickstarter. HT Huff post.
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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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Illegal fishing in Sierra Leone stamped out by locals
Local fishing communities in Sierra Leone have been policing their own waters and stamping out illegal fishing. EJF raised money to equip a surveillance boat with gps and camera gear to allow communities to record and report the boats, mainly trawlers, that operate illegally in protected inshore waters. So far the project has been a huge…
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Senegalese seahorse caught on camera
For the first time ever a rare West African seahorse (Hippocampus algiricus) has been caught on camera. Kate West from Imperial College London has been in Senegal on a joint project with Project Seahorse and ZSL. During her investigations into the growing trade in seahorses from this part of the world, she spotted fishermen hauling…
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Monbiot on paper parks
UK’s George Monbiot wrote about the absurdity that is the UK’s marine reserve system in his column in the Guardian recently (HT to Helen). It is great to see George join a tiny but growing number of voices criticizing “MPAs” (AKA Marine Protected Areas) as a solution to overfishing and other ocean problems. The UK’s marine reserves…
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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]
Got any book recommendations?