Dead pelicans on the beach in Peru. Img: The Guardian As many as 900 dolphins and over 4,000 pelicans have washed up dead on the beaches of northern Peru in the last couple of months, (see news coverage here, here and here), leading to a flurry of activity as various authorities and other interested parties . . . → Read More: What is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?
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By para_sight, on  May 9th, 2012  One comment  Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Megavertebrate, Opinion, Weather  dolphins, Pelicans, Peru, UME By para_sight, on May 7th, 2012 12 comments Conservation & Environment, Fishing, New Research Pacific, sharks A paper by Marc Nadon and colleagues from U. Hawaii and U Miami RSMAS has been getting a good bit of press lately (see here and here and here), and rightly so, it’s an interesting and important subject. They studied populations of reef sharks in the Pacific and attempted to reconstruct what the “starting” populations . . . → Read More: Are humans and reefs sharks mutually exclusive?
By para_sight, on April 27th, 2012 4 comments Biodiversity, Cephalopods!, Coral, Critters, Deep Sea 101, Expeditions, Fish, New Research, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Vessels and Equipment Gulf of Mexico, Little hercules, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, ROV This week the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer has been dropping its ROV Little Hercules onto various features in the northern Gulf of Mexico, including an old wood/iron wreck, salt domes and man-made seismic trenches. Okeanos has an interesting remote arrangement where folks back on the continent can direct the ROV pilots in real time by . . . → Read More: TGIF – Pretty pictures from Okeanos Explorer
By para_sight, on April 20th, 2012 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Coral, Evolution, TGIF: Pictures & Movies From the Barber lab at UCLA comes this awesome video. Not only can they sing better than most biologists, but the lyrics are great! I especially liked the line about not caring about income, just wanting to discover stuff. I feel ya… Hat tip to @neillosin on Twitter Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}From the Barber lab . . . → Read More: TGIF – the coral triangle, a-capella style!
By para_sight, on April 20th, 2012 One comment Biodiversity, Coral, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies coral reefs, fiji, Solomon Islands Right now our own @rmacpherson is in the Pacific, talking coral and shark conservation Fiji. In honour of his trip, here is a beautiful video of 100% live acroporid coral cover in the nearby Solomon Islands, shot by Bruce Carlson. I offer it as evidence for this TGIF that there are still many beautiful and . . . → Read More: TGIF – 100% live coral cover
By para_sight, on April 20th, 2012 4 comments Biodiversity, Critters, Invertebrate Wars Bobbit, Eunice, Polychaete John Bobbitt: Baby, this is not what I meant by "trial separation" Once upon a time in 1993, when I was imbibing my sophomore year at college in Australia – drinking in the knowledge, so to speak – I heard tell of a horrific crime, one that struck fear into the hearts and sub-heart-areas . . . → Read More: More annelid than anaconda
By para_sight, on April 12th, 2012 8 comments Cephalopods!, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Fish, Fishing, Industry & Government CITES, conservation, marine conservation, Nautilus, sharks, tuna CITES is the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, to which 175 nations are signatories. Along with the IUCN Red List, it’s one of the main ways that the international conservation status of a species is recognised (IUCN) and regulated (CITES). The main mechanism for this at CITES is through listing of a . . . → Read More: Will marine conservation miss out at the next CITES meeting?
h/t Bruce Carlson and TED Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}h/t Bruce Carlson and TED Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By para_sight, on April 5th, 2012 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Invertebrate Wars, New Research algae, competition, coral reefs, georgia tech, seaweed Battle lines are drawn and chemical warfare commences between alga (left) and coral (right). Img: Jennifer Smith I was lucky enough to attend an all-day workshop today, just down the road at Georgia Tech, where Prof. Mark Hay organised the Teasley Symposium on the interactions between corals and seaweeds on reefs. Like many, I was . . . → Read More: Turf wars
By para_sight, on March 31st, 2012 14 comments Expeditions, New Research, Oil Spills, Vessels and Equipment exploration, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer This is a time sensitive post. By the time some find it, there may be nothing showing, but right now at 1155hrs EDSL, there’s a great feed from the Little Hercules ROV at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, looking at some deep corals See more here Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}This is a time . . . → Read More: Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of Mexico
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