Is Super Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda one for the record books?
As I was writing this, initial damage reports from the Philippines were still coming in. It looks like the damage from the storm is really bad, many…
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Posts
I hate the barrage of the annual “best of” posts recapping everything from the last year that always besets us in late December and early January.…
Gulf oil spill suffocated marsh grasses, enhanced erosion
Another oil spill study hot off the presses! This new Silliman et al. PNAS paper is looking at the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…
Drilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mud
There are scientists floating in the middle of the North Atlantic who are holding the dinosaur extinction in their hands. Really. Here it is: This…
Dramatic impacts on beach microbial communities following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Ironically enough, I was at a meeting about oil spills when the Macondo well blew. The “Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) in Arctic waters” workshop…
To see the world in a grain of sand – movement from a turtle hatchling’s perspective
[This is a repost originally published at my old blog, DeepTypeFlow] A grain of sand represents many things to a baby turtle. While still within…
Into TheBlu, virtually
Try to imagine a virtual ocean, an online watery world divided into discrete ecosystems, each populated with semi-autonomous avatars of every marine species that lives there. …
ReefBase broadcast tonight!
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums is holding its annual conference in Atlanta this week (Twitter #AZA2011) and at tonights iceabreaker event at Georgia Aquarium,…
Assembling the Little Skate Genome
This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…
From the Editor’s Desk: The Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis
On December 26th 2004, a 9.0 earthquake struck off northern Sumatra in Indonesia. This triggered a massive tsunami that affected Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri…