SeaMonster blog
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Of polar bears and tipping points
This is a guest post by Dr. Gregory Thiemann, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Greg is a polar bear expert that I met in Canada recently when we both worked with Polar Bears International on their Tundra Connections project. As I write this, I’m on a Calm Air flight enroute…
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Save a shark, vote for WhySharksMatter
WhySharksMatter, AKA U Miami PhD student David Shiffman, is competing for a scholarship to help support his research on the ecological importance of sharks to coral reefs. David is still a student but is one of the most prolific and talented bloggers in the ocean blogs universe. He is one of the trio of super-talented bloggers…
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Kitesurfing Japan
Two new videos from the Dredge Zone [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30744600[/vimeo] [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/30985771[/vimeo]
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Behold the icy finger of death
It’s rough enough trying to eke out a living rooting around the seafloor in water that’s perennially hovering just around the freezing mark. But then, just when you let your guard down . . . well, check out this amazing video from the BBC, narrated with his inimitable understated drama by one of my heroes,…
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The Jaws effect: why we misunderstand sharks
The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer (1899) From Nat Geo (by Patrick Kiger, HT to Abel V): Audiences cringed in terror as they watched the 1975 movie thriller Jaws, which depicted shark hunters’ desperate struggle to survive an encounter with a monstrous aquatic serial killer that was powerful enough to turn their fishing cruiser into splinters, and was…
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800,000 years of CO2 (NOAA)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roa73Q8qZtA&[/youtube]
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Arctic sea ice hockey stick
A new paper in Science (Kinnard et al 2011) reports that the recent loss in arctic sea ice is likely to be unique over the last 15 centuries and caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Here we use a network of high-resolution terrestrial proxies from the circum-Arctic region to reconstruct past extents of summer sea ice,…
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Good day for giant manta rays
Giant manta rays hit the ocean headlines today with the news that they are to gain their first ever global protection from the many problems they face. Giant mantas (Manta birostris) are to be added to the Convention on Migratory Species (or CMS), an intergovernmental treaty set up to help get nations working together to…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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Fiji Vignette 3/3
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/32449778[/vimeo]
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