SeaMonster blog
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Helen in the Gambia
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll probably have heard that I’ve just begun a 2-month trip to West Africa. You can keep posted on my adventures here as I report back on all things seamonsterly. In the first of my reports, I encounter my first two local species down at the beach. …
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Communicating science to a nation watching reality TV
A great video of Sheril Kirshenbaum speaking about science communication. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyo8VUbBqCI&[/youtube]
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Expert debunks lamo coverage of polar bear science
Below is a repost of a piece from MediaMatters by Jocelyn Fong covering Steven Amstrup’s response to the recent media coverage of polar bear populations, which led to a resurgence of that long debunked myth “Polar Bears are doing better than ever! They LOVE climate change!” Steven used to be a federal scientist and is now the lead…
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Global warming in a nutshell
From Skeptical Science: The Greenhouse Effect The Earth is a giant rock, hurtling through space in its orbit around the sun. It would be a frozen lifeless rock like the moon if not for the thin layer of atmosphere that traps solar energy and insulates the Earth’s surface, like a transparent blanket. The way the…
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Storify of Duke’s fisheries panel
Did you miss Monday’s awesome panel discussion “Are fisheries turning the corner” organized by the Nicholas Institute at Duke? Then check out Clare “@SeaFiez” Fieseler’s incredible Storify of it here.
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Backhand barrel
How to get barrelled on your backhand by Ben Wilson [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/39988535[/vimeo]
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Enter the heroes
Having sat on their nests for weeks without a meal, the exhausted Albatross parents of the newly-hatched chicks head out to sea in search of food for themselves and their babies via Chris Jordan’s Midway Journey. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmxEaKQtwM&[/youtube]
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Going with the flow – on a planetary scale
We tend to think of ocean currents – when we think of them at all — as stately, slow-moving rivers in the sea, as I believe Ben Franklin himself first referred to the Gulf Stream. But in reality the patterns of water movement across the earth’s surface are extraordinarily complex. Nothing gives you a more…
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Marine parks are fishy
Ray Hilborn and I don’t agree on much. But apparently, we do agree that “Marine parks are fishy”, in Ray’s words, or that they “suck” in mine. Or at least that is what I recently told an audience at the Benthic Ecology Meeting (more on this soon). No, no. I love the concept of Marine…
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Indirect effects of overfishing
These are the lecture notes from the second lecture of my Marine Ecology course (BIOL 462) at UNC last fall. The first lecture is here. Required readings for this lecture: A recent article by Dr. Emmett Duffy about the hints of a Cod recovery in the north Atlantic and the scientific paper (in Nature) it was based on (here). Also read…
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