SeaMonster blog
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Thousands of baby octopus caught on camera
I’ll be honest with you. When I first clicked on this 7+ minute video at the Huffington Post, I didn’t expect to sit through the whole thing without skipping forwards to the action (around 3:24 we’re told). But I was completely sucked in by this moving footage of a female giant pacific octopus, nurturing her…
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Ove Hoegh-Guldberg on the state of the GBR
Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland, has responded to Bob Carter’s recent characterization of the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef being in “fine fettle”, i.e., good health. What’s the current state of the GBR (i.e. is it really “in fine fettle”)? Despite being one of the best managed marine ecosystems…
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Weekly ocean news round up
Plastic in Lanternfish, pirate fisherman, international fishing politics, good news about Right Whales, the weekly MSM account of a giant squid washing ashore, just for Helen the newest ocean craze “free dive racing“, and much more! All at the weekly ocean news round up at Breaching The Blue here.
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Forum on the Future of the Oceans
What do we really know about the current state of the world ocean, where it’s headed, and what can be done to keep it healthy in the long term? SeaMonster asked for answers from a diverse group of >60 distinguished experts at the frontlines of marine science, conservation, law, and policy at local to international…
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Love. Not loss.
The drumbeat of bad news about the state of Nature, including the oceans, is constant nowadays. But is anybody listening? What will save the world in the end? Love? Watch this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvIdwOEzreM[/youtube] Hat tip to Helen for the photo.
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Shark tagging – the low down
I wrote already about some of the latest technologies that are letting scientists get useful data out of a shark without killing it (including shark ultra-sound and DNA fingerprinting their partially digested puke), and of course there’s a whole lot we can find out by sneaking up on a shark and sticking a tag…
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Lionfish Invasion, part 3
[wpvideo xHLnpP4y] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.
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How to Pick a Cherry
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxE3uwHECs&f[/youtube] To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change in Washington, DC this week, SeaMonster is running a series of Peter Sinclair’s fun, educational videos about Anthropogenic Climate Change.
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Weekly ocean news round up
Shark sanctuaries, seafood choices (and their economics), another ocean gloom-n-doom report, lots of chatter about sustainable fisheries and overfishing, baby octopi, and much more! All at the weekly ocean news round up at Breaching The Blue here.
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Lionfish Invasion, part 2
[wpvideo o9JbcCYw] Lionfish Invasion was filmed on Abaco Island, Bahamas, produced by ConchSaladTV, in collaboration with Friends of the Environment, the Layman Lab, FIU, the Bruno lab, and UNC and with generous support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about liofish here.
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