SeaMonster blog
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Cheer up climate communicators; America’s views on climate change are better than you think
The George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication (4C) has a new report based on their monitoring of the attitudes of American’s about climate change: America’s Global Warming Beliefs and Attitudes, March 2012. Highlights of the survey (with “expert” commentary) • Since November 2011, public belief that global warming is happening increased by 3 points, to…
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The Endless Summer
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLYHu4dL7kA[/youtube] Check out a few digitally remastered clips from The Endless Summer and that iconic sound track by the Sandals.
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Big wave awards 2012
Check out some of the nominations for the Billabong 2012 Big Wave Awards: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQ4asDar_s&[/youtube]
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Sun coral
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9437395[/vimeo]
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Surfing N’Gor right
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlnz_OeCxbk[/youtube] The 1966 surf classic, The Endless Summer, followed two Californians as they chased the summer around the world, surfing as they went. One of the iconic waves they surfed was the n’gor right in Senegal, just off the îsle de n’gor. I’ve not surfed it myself yet but I can see it from my hotel.…
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A judge for the ocean
The article below from Sea Shepherd describes the slowly developing recognition that the current judiciary in Ecuador and elsewhere cannot deal with various environmental laws. Just like the recent case in Indonesia, when a boat was caught illegally harvesting sharks in the Galapagos, all the fisherman were sent home with minimal fines. But on the other…
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The political economy and ecology of fisheries
Below is a guest post by my colleague and workout buddy, Dr Elizabeth Havice, a fisheries economist and tuna guru in the Department of Geography here at UNC. And what of the people, places, politics, and economics behind change in fisheries systems? Here on SeaMonster we see all sorts of amazing stories about the creatures…
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Online Encyclopedia of Life hits a million pages
The Encyclopedia of Life has hit a million pages! From ScienceDaily: The Encyclopedia of Life has surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Launched in 2007 with the support of leading scientific…
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Mid-week shark finning news round up
There has been some important news this week about the global shark fin fishery problem. First is a piece by Juliet Eilperin about the problem of illegal shark fishing in marine reserves. Just last week another boat was caught illegally harvesting sharks from a globally important reserve: Local and regional authorities in Indonesia caught 33 poachers…
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Twilight of the giants in taxonomy
[Adapted in part from my recent review at Faculty of 1000] In an important sense, nothing exists until it’s given a name. And in the living world of organisms, names—official, scientific names—are assigned by unique creatures called taxonomists, experts in the minutiae of structure and biology of particular groups of organisms, working according to a…
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