Whale sharks (in Vietnamese: Ca Ong, literally “Sir Fish”), have been in the headlines quite a bit lately. Here’s a roundup: WA WS, OK? A whale shark was seen far from home back in January; it was around Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Now WA is home to probably the best characterised whale shark . . . → Read More: Sir Fish grabbing headlines, but it’s not all good
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By para_sight, on  February 22nd, 2012  Leave a comment  Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Fishing, Megavertebrate  Elasmobranchia, whale shark By Miriam Goldstein, on December 19th, 2011 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Natural Disaster, Plastic marine debris, OSCURS model, physical oceanography, SCUD model, tsunami Estimation of debris path created with OSCURS model. The colors are years after the tsunami. Click through for more information. Map courtesy of J. Churnside (NOAA OAR) and created through Google. Debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed towards Hawaii and the North American west coast. For those concerned, several new sources of information . . . → Read More: Japanese tsunami debris link roundup
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 28th, 2011 5 comments Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Fish Blogging Scholarship, Contest, David Shiffman, sharks My ocean blogging colleague, David Shiffman – known as “Why Sharks Matter” on twitter and the blog Southern Fried Science – is in the lead for an amazing opportunity: a $10,000 blogging scholarship! You can vote for him to win here and you are allowed to vote once per day. I should mention that voting . . . → Read More: Sharks Need Your Vote!
By Miriam Goldstein, on November 15th, 2011 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Education #SciFund, crowdfunding, Donor's Choose Remember the Donor’s Choose campaign? Remember how I offered AMAZING PRIZES to a lucky randomly selected donor? I haven’t forgotten – just got a bit swamped with work and travel. We’re only $171 away from buying a some awesome sea life for this low-income classroom in Utah – donate through Friday and be eligible for . . . → Read More: Two opportunities to make science awesome and WIN PRIZES!
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2011 One comment Carnivals & Link Love #SciFund, Circus of the Spineless Click to enter the Circus of the Spineless! Welcome the 67th edition of the Circus of the Spineless! It is my distinct honor and privilege to highlight the stars of this here traveling roadshow for the month of October in the year 2011. I hope you can all sit back and enjoy the amusement! Watch . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless #67
From our good friends at Southern Fried Science: The Historical Origins of ‘Whales as People’. An important, and overlooked, point that shared traditions and cultural references are not universal. The 41st edition of the Carnival of Evolution is up at Mermaid’s Tale (an excellent evolution blog in and of itself you should explore)! From @DrChrisKellogg . . . → Read More: Dredged from the Depths…
Hagfish ’11 coming to live October 19 on WhaleTimes.org. Let’s celebrate ugly, they are the 99%. Hagfish ’11 coming to live October 19 on WhaleTimes.org. Let’s celebrate ugly, they are the 99%. By para_sight, on October 5th, 2011 5 comments Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Zooplankton copepod, Microscopy Check this out: That right there is one gorgeous copepod, one of the bigger and more important groups of planktonic crustaceans. It looks huge but is actually tiny; probably 1-2mm. This is what they normally look like on a light microscope: You can see how much richer and more detailed the top image is (although . . . → Read More: Copepod awesomesauce
Click to enter the Circus of the Spineless! Long time poster and hoster of the Circus, Wanderin’ Weeta, has the latest edition of the Circus up! A fantastic selection of posts! Stayed tuned for instructions for next month’s circus. You can send submissions my way for now, kzelnio at gmail dot com. [caption id="attachment_5603" align="alignleft" width="180" . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless #66 is up!
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 6th, 2011 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love Circus of the Spineless Click to enter the Circus of the Spineless! Danna at The Cephalopodiatrist (see her for all your head-foot problems!) has the latest edition of the Circus up! Great stuff inside as always, another great month with plenty of submissions shows that the spineless community really enjoys keeping this Circus going! Next month’s edition will be held . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless #65!
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