If I ever write a popular environmental book, I am going to call it “I Hate Thoreau’s Bastard Children: Why Modern Environmental Writing Sucks.” The pernicious influence of Transcendentalism lingers like a poison oak rash every time someone gets an urge to write about nature. I’ve occasionally thought of making a drinking game as the . . . → Read More: Book Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  April 21st, 2011  14 comments  Books/Media  Atlantic, Book Review, Carl Safina, Lazy Point, Long Island, Transcendentalism By Miriam Goldstein, on April 20th, 2011 10 comments Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Nearly 5 million barrels of oil were spilled, making the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe the biggest spill in world history. The web is filled with resources telling stories and . . . → Read More: One year after the oil started
By Dr Bik, on April 20th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, all hell broke loose in the Gulf. From scientists’ perspective, last year’s massive oil spill only just unlocked gates of Hades; the full fury and environmental wrath of this catastrophe will besiege the Gulf for years to come. I’m not going to give you a round up of all the news . . . → Read More: Oil Spill anniversary: Show me the money…and data!
By Dr. M, on April 20th, 2011 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Megavertebrate Japan, whaling UPDATE: No sooner did I post this did I find out it’s a hoax. Of course, this reaffirms a long held tenet of mine: when things seem to good to be true…they are. A report that the Japanese government will scrap all research whaling has been dismissed as a hoax. The report, tracked back to a . . . → Read More: The end of whaling in Japan?
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 19th, 2011 2 comments Opinion classroom, Funding, GK-12, Obama, outreach, science education, Science Outreach Just a few months ago in his State of the Union address, President Obama called for more science education. As always, this is desperately needed to counteract anti-scientific political antics. From a Wired pieces called “7 Science-Education Battlegrounds of 2011″: Less than four months into 2011, lawmakers in seven states have proposed nine pieces of . . . → Read More: Why is a successful NSF science education program being cancelled?
By Archie Teuthis, on April 19th, 2011 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Expeditions, Fish, Fishing, Mating & Reproduction Atlantic, Belize, Caribbean, Eric Heupel, Field Work, fish, Invasion, Invasive Species, Lionfish, Scientist In Residence Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used to part of The Other 95% team along with me before we closed shop. You can find Eric tweeting as @eclecticechoes. —————————————————- Hey folks, Kevin asked me to do . . . → Read More: Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 17th, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Adrian Glover, Best of Zelnio, bone, Bone Worm, Colonization, Craig Smith, deep sea, dwarf male, fish, Greg Rouse, Habitat, Life History, lipid, Monterey Canyon, Nutrition, Osedax, Robert Vrijenhoek, Whale Fall We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago and much work on their reproduction, evolution and ecology has yielded incredible insights into a unique and bizarre way of life! Early on, Osedax was only found on whale bones . . . → Read More: Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
For the lay science enthusiast and the scientist interested in fields other than their own alike, there are few better perspectives you could get on the current state of things than “The Open Laboratory 2010: The best of science writing on the web”. Compiled by “Blogfather” and series editor Bora Zivkovic, who blogs at Blog . . . → Read More: Book Review: Open Laboratory 2010
By Archie Teuthis, on April 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Megavertebrate, Oil Spills Bottlenose, Box Plots, Cetacean, Dolphin, Eric Heupel, graphs, Scientist In Residence, Statistics, stranding, UME Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used to part of The Other 95% team along with me before we closed shop. You can find Eric tweeting as @eclecticechoes. ——————————– Recently the deaths of bottlenose dolphins . . . → Read More: DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 15th, 2011 3 comments Bringin' It, Education Film, Norway, Randy Olson, Tromsø This is my favorite video this week. My kids were cracking up watching it too. The Norwegians were part of Randy Olson‘s film workshop. Like he said, they set the bar high with this one! Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}This is my favorite video this week. My kids were cracking up watching it too. The Norwegians were part of Randy Olson‘s film workshop. Like he said, they set the… |
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