SeaMonster blog
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Reduce your blue footprint in 2012
Whenever we are on the outer banks for the xmas holidays – which thankfully is most years – we start the new year with a beach clean up along a mile long strength of one of our favorite beaches in the world: the national seashore between and Avon and Buxton. This year, we collected about the…
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Ocean thoughts for New Years day
Today is New Year’s Day, the traditional day to look ahead. With that in mind, here is a neatened, expanded-on, written-down version of some thoughts I shared on my final appearance on the BBC radio show Home Planet just before Christmas when the producers gave me a chance to cast an eye forwards. There’s no doubt that these…
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The blogging professor manifesto: A morning-after perspective
Have social media seeded a communications renaissance in science and if so, what is limiting its growth? My colleagues Kevin Zelnio of SciAm’s EvoEcoLab (and Deep-Sea News), and John Bruno right here at SeaMonster, recently started a fascinating conversation on these topics. Kevin’s excellent essay noted that scientists have many reasons for going online, but…
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A manifesto for blogging professors
Iv’e been looking for a manifesto for blogging professors. Kevin Zelnio has come through with a new post on his EvoEcoLab site titled The message reigns over the medium. It is long-form blogging at it’s best. And it isn’t clear to me where exactly Kevin learned to be such a great writer (when he was a cook? A…
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‘Tis the season to be hatching…
Fa la la la la, la la la la! As a Northern Hemispherite, I found it odd to be decking the halls within a week of celebrating the Summer Solstice, but apparently the Antarctic locals know better. Perfectly-timed with the “warm” season came the arrival of a new generation – penguin chicks are hatching all…
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Leave a Message: shredding girl surfers!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igUy2DvlVtw[/youtube] The athletes incude Carissa Moore (Hawaii), Lakey Peterson (USA), Laura Enever (Australia), Coco Ho (Hawaii), Byrne-Wickey Monyca (Hawaii) and Malia Manuel (Hawaii).
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Top posts of the year from Breaching The Blue
My vote for the most unique oceans blogger of 2011 is Mark Gibson at Breaching the Blue. Mark’s posts are typically clear yet deep analysis of marine policy with very little of the fluff so common at most oceans blogs (mea culpa). It is a go to site for fair and balanced fisheries news. Here…
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Ocean acidification can reduce the survival of larval fish
Another great piece from Rob Painting at SkS: Fossil fuel-burning is acidifying the oceans and, up until recently, it has generally been thought that the greatest risk posed by ocean acidification was the change to seawater carbon chemistry. This is because rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide reduce the concentration of seawater carbonate ions, a vital…
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Seriously, global warming is real
A nice essay by Matt Bush (also see his response to the “climategate 2.0” non-scandal here): Urgh. Look, man-made global warming is real. This conversation is starting to bore me. I’ve had it thrice this week, with different people who I know aren’t stupid. It also really disturbs me. I don’t think deniers are gullible idiots, I just…
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John Cook speaking at AGU
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdI3ocVGKk[/youtube]
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