Of course, anyone who bothered to look at a map would have known that St. Pete Beach — and hundreds of other vacation spots throughout the Sunshine State — would have pristine beachfronts through the summer, even under the worst of the worst-case scenarios.But Mr. Overton and others don’t blame tourists or the news … . . . → Read More: Should BP’s Money Go Where the Oil Didn’t?
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By Dr. M, on  October 25th, 2010  3 comments  Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills  BP, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill This is from via ABC Radio Australia News…Delay as Canadian firm seeks PNG mining licence The Papua New Guinea government has delayed granting a Canadian mining company, Nautilus Minerals, an undersea mining licence because of disagreements over conditions of the licence. . . . → Read More: Delay in PNG Mining Permit?
This is the overall winner but check out the others at the Reef Photography Competition | Reef Photography Competition | Herald Sun. . . . → Read More: Reef Photography Competition
By Dr. M, on October 21st, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Mining Nautilus Mining, Papua New Guinea Well shit… The green-lighting of the world’s first deep-sea mineral mine in Papua New Guinea waters has caused alarm among scientists and indigenous people who fear it will damage local marine life. Papua New Guinea’s prime minister, Michael Somare, today licensed the new mine for ore that contains copper, zinc and gold, to be run by … . . . → Read More: PNG Gives OK to Deep-Sea Mining
Sorry I’ve been so absent around DSN of late but it has been literally non-stop travel, meetings, and field work with my day job. In fact, I’m about to head to Honduras for a site-visit to the Bay Islands Marine Protected Area Network. The plan was to blog from the field about the conservation … . . . → Read More: The Irony Is Freakin’ Exquisite
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment ocean acidification, poetry, really lousy poetry Ocean acidification is evil. Ocean species expect great upheaval. Horrific for survival, expect no survival Second worst for calcification, what an abomination! Dire but better for growing with all signs of slowing. Photosynthesis and reproduction fair the best, but unpleasant like all the rest. If you’re a calcifying organism, kiss you sweet hardened ass goodbye. Because it’s marked with a giant … . . . → Read More: Ocean acidification is evil: a not-so-great poem
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Evolution, Fish, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, Paleobiology, Paleobiology adaptation, Cretaceous, deep sea, evolution, hermaphrodite, Jurassic, lizardfish 145 million years ago, in the Cretaceous, the air was warm and the seas were high and rum flowed freely. On land, mammals were oppressed under dinosaur Republican rule. Massive reptiles and ammonites, long since extinct, dominated the oceans. Under the reign of these giants, the lizardfishes were mere fledglings. Today, the 256 known lizardfishes represent … . . . → Read More: Of eyes and sex in lizardfishes
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 2 comments Cephalopods!, Expeditions, Scientist!, Seamount cirrate octopus, MBARI, octopoda, Octopus, Seamount, Taney This ghostly-looking orange cirrate octopus was observed with the MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts on my recent research cruise to the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals called Cirrata named for the presence of hair-like structures called ‘cirri’ which may aid these animals in the capture of food. via YouTube – Ghostly critters … . . . → Read More: Ghostly critters of the deep sea: Cirrate octopus
By Dr. M, on October 20th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral bleaching, climate change, Coral, global warming If the impending coral death in the Caribbean didn’t make you nauseous… International marine scientists say that a huge coral death which has struck Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean reefs over recent months has highlighted the urgency of controlling global carbon emissions. Many reefs are dead or dying across the Indian Ocean and into the Coral Triangle following … . . . → Read More: Worst coral death strikes at Southeast Asia
By Dr Bik, on October 20th, 2010 One comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Six months ago today I was at a meeting in Alaska entitled “NRDA in Arctic Waters”, where we were discussing research priorities that would help us prepare us for a hypothetical future oil spill in the Arctic ecosystem. On April 20th, we woke up for breakfast wondering where the BP employees had all … . . . → Read More: Reflections abound on the 6-month anniversary of Gulf Spill
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