DSN’s vey on Miriam G. is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Head over to read about her recent work on the Pacific Garbage Patch aboard the Okeanos Explorer. We at DSN are brimming with pride at her accomplishments. “For a thousand miles of the open ocean we sampled it all,” said Miriam Goldstein, an … . . . → Read More: WE R TAKIN OVAR UR CITY AN PRES
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By Dr. M, on  November 13th, 2010  Leave a comment  Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Life At Sea, Plastic, Scientist!  NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, Pacific Garbage Patch By Dr. M, on November 11th, 2010 One comment Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Weather climate change, John Boehner, Republican In case you haven’t already read it, head over to Southern Fried Science where WhySharksMatter delivers an elegantly written, sincere, and ultimately balanced letter to John Boehner. Boehner is the soon-to-be Speaker of the House and will be leading the Republican majority on a predicted anti-climate change agenda. As a scientist, however, I am deeply … . . . → Read More: An open letter about climate change
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2010 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather atmosphere, CH4, Clean Air Act, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, graphs, methane, trends Confronting Climate Contrarianism looks into the claims made climate contrarians and how they (mis)use the scientific literature. —————————————————————– In a textbook example of climate contrarians misusing the primary literature for an anti-scientific agenda, Robinson et al. (2007) are seemingly flippant about decades of research showing how humans have affected the climate since the onset of the … . . . → Read More: Confronting Climate Contrarianism II: Methane Accumulation in the Atmosphere
Professor Callum Roberts of the University of York, England, with his MPA mantra in the background. Get your minds out of the gutter, pervs! We are talking about marine protected areas (MPAs) here! I’m fresh back from a quick trip to DC where I attended the 2010 Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Symposium. … . . . → Read More: More, Bigger, Better, Faster!
By Dr Bik, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Oil Spills, Zooplankton BP, Deepwater Horizon, food web, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, zooplankton A new study released today shows the first evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil entering planktonic food webs in the Gulf of Mexico (is anyone surprised? No? Didn’t think so. ). Researchers from Dauphin Island Sea lab and the University of South Alabama tracked levels of δ13C across different size classes of plankton, looking … . . . → Read More: Oil hydrocarbons ingested by GOM plankton communities
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Environmental Sciences Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, CO2, communication, From the Editor's Desk, global warming, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing on the title, what is the first that comes to your mind? Do you think this is an article describing the latest research on how human-generated carbon dioxide emissions … . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 7th, 2010 Leave a comment Cephalopods! Cephalopod, Germans, Octopus, Paul the Octopus, Soccer Hat tip to the Bitter End blog. . . . → Read More: Conspiracy Shrouds Paul the Octopus’ Untimely Death
The first two episodes were up tonight. If you were able to see it on National Geographic Channel what did you think? I posted my review of it last week here. . . . → Read More: Great Migrations Open Thread
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 7th, 2010 Leave a comment Deep Sea Music, Fish Molecular Lab, Music Video, Stickleback Hat tip to the awesome Scicurious! . . . → Read More: Get Your Stickle On!
By Dr. M, on November 6th, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Critters, Natural Disaster, New Research, Weather barometric pressure, cyclone, earthquake, Hurricane, sea snake, Thailand, typhoon Undoubtedly you have heard that dogs can sense earthquakes before the tremors occur. While anecdotes are common, experimental evidence supporting these claims remains elusive. The USGS in the 1970′s even examined the ability of animals for prediction “but nothing concrete came out of “. Cueing on changes in the weather is frequent among … . . . → Read More: Can Sea Snakes Predict The Future? What About Hurricanes? Lottery Numbers?
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