President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean observation, ocean acidification research and monitoring, coastal and estuarine land conservation, and… shipwrecks! They’re in there somewhere. I just know it. ; ) An astute commenter pointed out this . . . → Read More: Can we get excited now?
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By Peter Etnoyer, on  March 31st, 2009  4 comments  Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment  bailout, Barack Obama, fishing, NOAA, ocean law, ocean management, Omnibus Public Land Management Act, stimulus By Peter Etnoyer, on March 29th, 2009 2 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Conservation & Environment, Megavertebrate, New Research, Ramblings Ernest Hemmingway, Key West, Key West Florida, Loren McClenachen, Miller-McCune Center, recreational fishing, trophy fish, United States What better way to get at the question of recreational fishing impacts to ocean wildlife than to study historical pictures of the day’s catch on the docks at Key West, Florida? The American island paradise is legendary for fishing, frequented by Ernest Hemingway and other huntsmen since the early 1950′s. Trends in the size and . . . → Read More: Trophy fish, back in the day
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 27th, 2009 One comment TGIF: Pictures & Movies Clark Little, hawaii, Photography, surfer, wave Imagine yourself from the inside of the wave, barreling shoreward, and exploding out into millions of watery pieces. Intense stuff. Clark Little, a surfer from Hawai’i with over 30 years experience, took his intimate knowledge of the ocean and frames an awe-inspiring vision of his home state from the perspective of the wave. “I . . . → Read More: Friday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a Wave
By Dr. M, on March 27th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Critters, TGIF: Pictures & Movies holdfast, Invertebrate, kelp, Pacific, Polychaete, the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, video, zoology Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Peter Etnoyer, on March 27th, 2009 2 comments Education, Gadgets & Gear, Google Ocean, Industry & Government BBC, digital map, Ethiopia, Google, google earth, Google Inc., Google Ocean, google vs microsoft, Microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, NavTeq, video map A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below. We watch a map drawn line by line by line. It takes hours for small features, days for large ones. In time, different things are revealed to different people. Geological . . . → Read More: Clickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 26th, 2009 3 comments Ramblings Darwin Beard Challenge, Southern Fried Science Is over at Southern Fried Science. I thought I was pretty hairy, but man look at the russian bear with the shark! We are moving to biweekly updates now. See you in 2 weeks! (Although we might lose whysharksmatters underneath a mountain of hair…) Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Is over at Southern Fried Science. I thought I was pretty hairy, but man look at the russian bear with the shark! We are moving to biweekly updates now. See… By Dr. M, on March 26th, 2009 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Gadgets & Gear, Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment architecture, condo, Dubai, Gulf of Mexico, hotel, luxury, Morris Architects, offshore oil rigs, oil derricks, prefab Courtesy of Morris Architects. In the future oil derricks will be luxury hotels and condos, and people wil ski around them in beautiful formations Thousands of offshore oil rigs dot the ocean with nearly 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico ready to be decommissioned. What do we with all those derricks? Luxury Hotels Morris Architects . . . → Read More: Offshore Luxury Condos
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 26th, 2009 2 comments Industry & Government, Megavertebrate, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Coastal and Ocean Observation Act, HR 146, NOAA, ocean acidification, ocean science Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one step closer to becoming law. Congrats to Sheril and Chris Mooney for their promotion from Scienceblogs. Here’s the details on the oceanic stimulus package. “Ocean and Coastal Exploration and NOAA . . . → Read More: One step closer to stimulus
A gold coral (Gerardia sp.) from 400 m in Hawaii est. 2700 years old. It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest animal. At four thousand years old, the Leiopathes sp. black corals beat the quahog clams, which live to be . . . → Read More: Deep-corals are world’s oldest animal
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 24th, 2009 2 comments Ramblings, Vessels and Equipment HMS Tireless, oxygen generator, submarine Oxygen candles and CO2 scrubbers are the lifeline of a submarine dwelling 200 feet under Arctic ice, but faulty units are to blame for the deaths of two British mariners in 2007, according to coroner’s findings reported by the BBC. The deaths of Anthony Huntrod, 20, from Sunderland and Paul McCann, 32, from Halesowen in . . . → Read More: System to blame in British sub deaths
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