http://deepseanews.com/2009/07/some-sort-of-naturally-occurring-organic-or-otherwise-marine-organism/ All the news on the Earth's largest environment. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:01:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://deepseanews.com/2009/07/some-sort-of-naturally-occurring-organic-or-otherwise-marine-organism/comment-page-1/#comment-7696 Once Again, I Called It | Deep Sea News Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:06:20 +0000 http://deepseanews.com/?p=5149#comment-7696 [...] Like I said, the Great Alaskan Blob was Palin algae. Preliminary results indicate that it doesn’t look toxic. See Time Magazine: “Algae blooms,” she says. “It’s sort of like a swimming pool that hasn’t been cleaned in a while.” The blob, Konar said, is a microalgae made up of “billions and billions of individuals.” “We’ve observed large blooms in the past off Barrow although none of them at all like this,” Barry Sherr, an Oregon State University professor of oceanography, said in an e-mail. “The fact that the locals say they’ve never seen anything like it suggests that it might represent some exotic species which has drifted into the region, perhaps as a result of global change. For the moment that’s just a guess.” [...] [...] Like I said, the Great Alaskan Blob was Palin algae. Preliminary results indicate that it doesn’t look toxic. See Time Magazine: “Algae blooms,” she says. “It’s sort of like a swimming pool that hasn’t been cleaned in a while.” The blob, Konar said, is a microalgae made up of “billions and billions of individuals.” “We’ve observed large blooms in the past off Barrow although none of them at all like this,” Barry Sherr, an Oregon State University professor of oceanography, said in an e-mail. “The fact that the locals say they’ve never seen anything like it suggests that it might represent some exotic species which has drifted into the region, perhaps as a result of global change. For the moment that’s just a guess.” [...]

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