California has been a big transition for me. I mean big. Not only am I now living in the sun-drenched utopia I have long pined for (a climate which finally meets my minimum temperature preference of 90F), but I also have leaped into to an entirely new scientific world. I think I’m becoming a microbiologist. . . . → Read More: Microbiology at Sea: A tale of ballast, vomit, and cockroaches
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By Dr Bik, on  May 17th, 2012  2 comments  Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Microbes, Vessels and Equipment  Bacteria, Ballast, cockroaches, Microbes, microbiome, Seasick By para_sight, on May 9th, 2012 2 comments Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Megavertebrate, Opinion, Weather dolphins, Pelicans, Peru, UME 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?
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 Dr. M, on May 7th, 2012 2 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Fishing, Industry & Government auction, black coral, CITES, Coral, ebay, endangered, vulnerable eBay’s history is dotted with carcasses of endangered and vulnerable species. In 2000, the Sea Turtle Conservancy announced that a large selection of illegal hawksbill turtle shell products were available on the online auction site. “On Jan. 6, about about 50 genuine tortoise shell items were listed for sale through ebay, said Gary Appelson, advocacy . . . → Read More: Finding Endangered Life on eBay
By Miriam Goldstein, on May 5th, 2012 8 comments Best of, Conservation & Environment, Natural Disaster, Weird Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, spam, tsunami Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as is. Who wouldn’t trust Savy Pappy with a Fukushima reactor? I’m sending them $100,000 right now! American People, Global Community, Ladies and Gentlemen We are the Freedom consultants firm. [address]. We . . . → Read More: Amazing Fukushima-related spam
By Miriam Goldstein, on May 2nd, 2012 18 comments Fishing fisheries, Sardines, seafood, Steinbeck, sustainable fishery Sardines school off Baja California. Photo by Jon Bertsch. http://www.thalassagraphics.com/blog/?p=167 I only eat anchovies with Caesar salad, and am rather fond of the tiny fish that add a bit of strong flavor to the romaine lettuce. I’m unusual for wanting to get even that close to the tiny, oily fish – sardines, anchovy, menhaden – . . . → Read More: How to eat sardines sustainably
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 24th, 2012 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Last Friday was the 2 year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The ramifications of the vast amount of oil and dispersant polluting the Gulf are still becoming clear, but the problem hasn’t gone away, nor is it likely to. The New Orleans Times-Picayune rounded up official statements from . . . → Read More: BP oil spill 2-year anniversary: link roundup
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 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?
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
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