SeaMonster blog
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Radioactive Water Leaking Into Ocean From Japanese Nuclear Plant
You knew this was coming… From the NYT: Highly radioactive water is leaking directly into the sea from a damaged pit near a crippled reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, safety officials said Saturday, the latest setback in the increasingly messy bid to regain control of the reactors. Although higher levels of radiation have…
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Daily Sea Monster: The earthquake fish
The largest ecosystem on the planet is also the most mysterious–the bathypelagic or “midnight zone“, that thick layer of seemingly monotonous dark water between the film of sunlit surface ocean above, where the alchemy of photosynthesis spins sunlight into the tiny algal cells that feed the rest of the ocean, and the cold dark desert…
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Anchors aweigh — into hot water
There are a wide range of reasons to be concerned about the changing climate, as John has explained in recent posts. And because policies to address these challenges involve very large stakes, economically speaking, the issue is mired in intense debate, skulduggery, and deviousness on a colossal scale (despite the very clear scientific evidence). But…
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Where to learn about climate change
The availability of accurate, dependable, concise and clear information on anthropogenic climate change increases every year. This is a shortlist of my favorite sources. – JB 1) Start at SkepticalScience, easily the most informative outlet for straightforward information on global climate change. It is also one of the best science blogs on the web. Download…
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Haeckel bivalves
The first of many Ernst Haeckel images
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Impacts of the Japanese tsunami on ocean life
As terrible as the impacts of the Japanese tsunami have been, one issue barely being covered by the media is the potentially massive effects on ocean life and ecosystems. I can’t say too much as a scientist simply because there is no data on what is happening; nobody is measuring sediment input, toxin levels in…
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Huge kite loop
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6907197[/vimeo]
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Merchants of Doubt
I had the great pleasure of hosting Dr. Naomi Oreskes at UNC this week. She was here to give the Michael Polanyi lecture Wednesday evening (Polanyi was a scientist and philosopher famous for the development of the concept of tacit knowledge). She spoke to a packed room of 300 people about her incredible new book…
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These girls can surf!
From the finals of the 2011 RoxyPro held at Snapper Rocks, Queensland
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Thieving sperm whale
From Science Friday: For years, longline fishermen in Alaska have complained that whales have been stealing their sablefish catch. A team of researchers, including Aaron Thode, Delphine Mathias and Jan Straley, mounted a video camera to a fishing line and caught a sperm whale stealing. Footage courtesy of Delphine Mathias, Aaron Thode, Jan Straley, Kendall…
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