"La La La La….Nothing to see here!" CREDIT: Brooker, et al., Coral Reefs, Sept. 2011 After reading a recent paper in the journal Coral Reefs on the ability of Harlequin filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris) to masquerade as branching stony coral (abstract only), two facts are inescapable: 1) Evolution freakin’ rocks! 2) Vertebrates are just invertebrate wannabe’s. . . . → Read More: Invertebrate Wannabe
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By RickMac, on  August 16th, 2011  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Evolution, Fish  zomg By RickMac, on July 29th, 2011 17 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate, Opinion conservation, Galapagos, shark finning, sharks, wtf Thresher shark tails found aboard a fishing vessel caught illegally long-lining in the Galápagos Marine Reserve, Ecuador. Image © 2011, John Bruno By now, you’ve probably seen coverage of the news from July 24 by MSNBC, and documented first-hand by my colleague John Bruno over at SeaMonster (What a marine massacre looks like), of the . . . → Read More: Contextualize Your Outrage
By RickMac, on July 25th, 2011 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Fish, Megavertebrate conservation, great white sharks, sharks Here we go again. Follow the link (or click image below) for special report by KTVU TV, Oakland, CA. White shark awaiting tagging, South Farallon Island, CA. For the full online chatter on the Michael Domeier White shark tagging saga, you can’t get any better analysis than Mike Neumann’s blog. See also here, and here. . . . → Read More: Shark Researcher Seeks New Permit For Controversial Tagging Procedure
By RickMac, on June 26th, 2011 5 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Education, Life Science, Opinion, Ramblings, Scientist! Happy Pride Weekend to everyone! Here in San Francisco, I’m hunkered down in the office prepping for field work in Mexico, but through my open window I can hear the cheers of the crowd from the SF Pride Parade just a couple of blocks away. This post has spent a long time languishing in my . . . → Read More: Minorities in Ocean Sciences: The LGBT Pride Weekend Edition
By RickMac, on June 16th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Fish, Megavertebrate Diving, fiji, MPAs, sharks I’ve been on stealth mode for the past few months, in part because my workload doubled this year and I’ve been serving double duty at my day job. But I’ve also been working on some exciting ocean conservation work in remote locations that I’m not yet at liberty to discuss. But since I’m in . . . → Read More: 30 Meters. 70 Bull Sharks. ‘Nuff Said.
By RickMac, on April 24th, 2011 3 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
Simulation of Debris from 2011 Japan Tsunami, 2011 University of Hwaii Mānoa International Pacific Research Center After being pulled away from my online life for quite a while, I regret that my first post back is not happy news. With apologies for sticking my neck into Miriam’s territory, but University of Hawaii researchers have . . . → Read More: Japan Tsunami Debris Sloshing Around The Pacific
Energy plot from March 11, 2011 Honshu Tsunami. Filled colors show maximum computed tsunami amplitude in cm during 24 hours of wave propagation. Black contours show computed tsunami arrival time. © 2011, NOAA I’m blogging from an Amtrak train en route from New York City to Washington DC for a series of donor and partner . . . → Read More: First Thoughts On Honshu Tsunami
Queen Latifah as Ursula by Annie Leibovitz, 2011 After three weeks in the field, I thought I’d ease back into my DSN responsibilities with a little fluff. To wit: Have you heard that Queen Latifah has been chosen to appear as Ursula the sea witch from Disney’s The Little Mermaid for an upcoming magazine ad . . . → Read More: Ursula Re-Imagined
By RickMac, on February 18th, 2011 5 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Fish, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies apex predators, Full On, shark Bull sharks, Fiji. © 2011, Mike Neuman, Beqa Adventure Divers Apologies on my spare offerings of late, but things are crazy busy for me with field work in Fiji. I’m not at liberty to go into too many details at the moment, but I can share a few snippets from an epic Friday (my Friday . . . → Read More: Got Shark?
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