Figure 2 from paper: Mean average phototaxis and geotaxis score of E. marinus exposed to varied concentrations of serotonin (n = 20 per treatment) over a 3-week period. Error bars to one standard deviation. *Significance compared with control determined by Mann–Whitney and Bonferroni correction p < 0.0125. Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are . . . → Read More: Your Happiness Kills Crustaceans
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By Dr. M, on  July 19th, 2010  2 comments  Biodiversity, Critters, Dumping, Life Science, New Research, Zooplankton  Acanthocephala, Amphipoda, anxiety, Arthropoda, Crustacea, depression, Echinogammarus, geotaxis, Parasite, phototaxis, serotonin By Kevin Zelnio, on June 14th, 2010 4 comments Dumping Dredging, Dumping, Munition, mustard gas bombs, warfare A clam boat in Massachusetts dredged up a not-so-welcome surprise last week – 2 tanks of Mustard Gas. One crew member is reported as getting sick from the exposure, confirmed by diagnosis, blood and urine tests, before they tossed the canisters back into the sea. The Coast Guard is now looking for them. Now, one . . . → Read More: Fresh Catch of the Day in Boston: Mustard Gas
By Dr. M, on April 6th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government, Uncategorized, Vessels and Equipment Australia, coal, coral reef, Great Barrier Reef, oil Photo from Queensland Government. Some of the 1,075 tons of fuel carried by the Chinese freighter Shen Neng 1 could be seen leaking from its tanks on Sunday. In part two of unintended series on oil… Unless you live under an oil covered rock you probably already know that a Chinese ship carrying 65,000 tons . . . → Read More: Oil: Not just for autos but coral reefs as well
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 18th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping California, pollution, trash Of course, the sad thing is that this scenario is likely to occur in deep water along the majority of coastlines. Hat tip to @scubadivergirls. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Of course, the sad thing is that this scenario is likely to occur in deep water along the majority of coastlines. Hat tip to @scubadivergirls. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Dr. M, on January 26th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, New Research, Plastic California, Dumping, fishing, monofilament line, Monterey, Moss Landing, sanctuary, Santa Cruz, trash Fig. 5 from Watters et al. (2010). "Examples of debris items observed from the Delta submersible during deep-water surveys on the seafloor off central and southern California: (a) monofilament fishing line in gorgonian corals off central California at 95 m (photo by M. Yoklavich); (b) gill net snagged on rock off southern California at 80 . . . → Read More: Taking Fish and Leaving Trash
By Dr. M, on September 16th, 2009 One comment Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government carbon dioxide, geoengineering, iron fertilization, ocean fertilization, phytoplankton From Nature Adding iron to the ocean is not an effective way to fight climate change, and we don’t need further research to establish that, say Aaron Strong, Sallie Chisholm, Charles Miller and John Cullen. In the face of seemingly accelerating climate change, some have proposed tackling the problem with geoengineering: intentionally altering the planet’s . . . → Read More: Ohh! Ocean Fertilzation Snap!
By Dr. M, on June 10th, 2009 Leave a comment Dumping, Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment air-to-air, fishermen, Gulf of Mexico, longline, MacDill Air Force Base, missile, weapon A commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico last month ensnared a 8ft long missile in his longline. The missile contained a hole leading the fishermen to assume it was previously detonated. Wanting to keep the missile as a souvenir, he tied it to the top of his boat where it rested for the remainder . . . → Read More: Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles Do
By Dr. M, on March 24th, 2009 9 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather Alfred Wegener Institute, algae, copepod, Environmental Issues, global warming, greenhouse gas, iron, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton, Southern Ocean, zooplankton BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
By Dr. M, on March 12th, 2009 5 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research anthropogenic, Biodiversity, biological and chemical weapons, conservation, deep sea, ecologist, economics, energy, energy flows, Environmental Issues, Eugene Odum, famous ecologist, marine conservation, policy, Savannah River Plant, tactical oil spills, war, warfare Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change, ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.” The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government carbon credits, carbon sequestration, circulation, climate change, deep sea, sediments Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind attitude and 2) ignorance about processes in the deep. So pardon me if I don’t get too excited about the new scheme to save us all. Rick and Miriam have . . . → Read More: Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
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