SeaMonster blog
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Traceability of the seafood supply chain
This is a repost of two articles by Mark Gibson from Breaching the Blue: FishWise’s Mariah Boyle just put out an excellent white paper on seafood traceability efforts by nonprofits, governments, and companies. It is comprehensive and concisely written. I highly recommend it for those marine policy wonks out there. The report can be found here. A few excerpts to…
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The coral jungle – from The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
One thing that inspired me to become a coral reef biologist is this episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuUNVISSpKA&[/youtube] This episode first aired in the spring of 1968 when I was only 3, so I must have seen a rerun. Like practically every marine scientist of my generation, waiting for “The Undersea…
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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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Bertness rock anthem
Eric Axelman is an undergrad at Brown Uni and has been working in the Bertness lab where I did my PhD (in salt marshes and cobble beach plant communities). Eric stars in, directed and wrote the great lyrics for this video. It has already gone viral in marine ecology, but we want to share in…
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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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What to do when the oceans rise
Last week I published my first book review at PLoS Biology with UNC undergraduate Lauren-Kristine Pryzant. We read and wrote about Tim McClanahan and Josh Cinner’s excellent new book, “Adapting to a Changing Environment: Confronting the Consequences of Climate Change“. We tried to bring the lessons in the book from Africa home by discussing climate…
Got any book recommendations?