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By para_sight, on  April 29th, 2011  14 comments  Megavertebrate, New Research, Open Access, Uncategorized  Caribbean, Georgia Aquarium, Mexico, Project Domino, whale shark 
*Ed. Note: Al’s post was selected by the staff at PLoS One as the April Blog Pick of the Month! Awesome Job Al! – KAZ (Oh boy, have I been looking forward to writing this post! This one is 2 years in the making) Like a lot of biologists, I get to see some really . . . → Read More: Inside the Outside
Gorgeous photos of Dale Chihuly’s glasswork, taken by the ever-awesome Boston teacher/travel blogger/my college friend Lillie. Chihuly’s work looks very marine-life-inspired to me – three of my favorites are below. For more, head over to Lillie’s place or to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Happy Friday! Gorgeous photos of Dale Chihuly’s glasswork, taken by . . . → Read More: TGIF: Glasswork from Dale Chihuly
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 27th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened, where would the oil have gone? This short animation by Chris Harmon gives a sense of the vast scale of our oil-based economy. Best of all, he cites his sources so you can check out the numbers yourself. (Via Ayana J.) Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo. If . . . → Read More: If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened…
By Dr Bik, on April 26th, 2011 6 comments Biodiversity, Ecology, Microbes, New Species 454, DNA, Illumina, metagenomics, Microbes, RB Editor's Selection, sequencing If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a bit obsessed. If my life were an SAT analogy, it would be Dr Bik:Sequencing platforms as Teenage Girls:Twilight. My gorgeous Illumina never sleeps (runs 2 weeks straight for a . . . → Read More: Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
By Dr. M, on April 25th, 2011 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills BP, corexit, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Skimmed: Oil skimmed off surface. Captured: Oil captured before escaping into the sea. Burned: 400 burning of concentrated slicks moving barrels from water to air. COREXIT Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" by 1.8 million gallos of COREXIT. Deep-Sea Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" at 1500 meteres through a narrow pipe. Evaporated or Dissolved: Oil that disolved in to Gulf . . . → Read More: Pardon Me If I Don’t Start Celebrating
By Dr. M, on April 25th, 2011 6 comments Life Science, New Research, Vessels and Equipment decompression sickness, Health, medicine, nitrox, scuba diving If you scuba dive, you may already have heard of Nitrox. To breath underwater, most divers use a normal atmospheric air mixture (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, 1% trace gases) under pressure. One the issues every diver faces is decompression sickness. Decompression sickness happens when the dissolved gases in your blood come out of solution . . . → Read More: Scuba Diving = Crappy Vessels?
By Dr. M, on April 25th, 2011 One comment Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government blue urbanism, city planning, urban planning At Design Observer there is nice essay urging us to reconsider how we approach urban planning. As planners and designers, we need to take up the mantle of blue urbanism. Just as green urbanism challenges us to rethink sustainability at the city scale, blue urbanism asks us to re-imagine ourselves as citizens of a blue . . . → Read More: Blue Urbanism
By RickMac, on April 24th, 2011 2 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate conservation, sharks 2011, Cancun Foros (http://www.cancunforos.com); Cartoon Translation: Abelardo Vara (President of Cancun Hotel Association) says you have to kill sharks to avoid exposing Caribbean tourism. Vara: "These sharks are imbeciles attacking anything that stands between them and their food." Shark: "That's curious…. We think the same of you." My life for the past few months . . . → Read More: Sharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of Mobs
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 22nd, 2011 4 comments TGIF: Pictures & Movies Earth Day, fuck the planet, planet earth It’s Earth Day! Please appreciate this eloquent video highlighting the glories of our beautiful planet: “F@ck Planet Earth.” (Strong language, OBVIOUSLY!) It’s Earth Day! Please appreciate this eloquent video highlighting the glories of our beautiful planet: "F@ck Planet Earth." (Strong language, OBVIOUSLY!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClCmO42_tQ0 In honour of a current visit to the ancestral homeland (Australia), I thought I’d share some fish species Aussies (from the southern states at least) are familiar with, but others may not know. Not too much science here, but I thought it might be interesting for fisher folk and ichthyology-bods alike. Snapper, Pagrus auratus Snapper . . . → Read More: Some Aussie fish I have known
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