Apparently there is a study underway that is setting out to empirically determine the ole adage that trawling is bad for the environment, as reported by New Scientist (link to pdf). This is a tale that has been handed down orally from generation to generation of conservationists. Sometimes when a story is repeated many times, . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Benefits of Bottom Trawling and Other Assorted Fairy Tales
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  December 7th, 2010  9 comments  Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Fishing  benthic, Best of Zelnio, California, Journalism, Nature Conservancy, New Scientist, trawling By Kevin Zelnio, on November 23rd, 2010 26 comments Editor's Desk, Education, Opinion & Editorial academia, Best of Zelnio, Cult of Science, outreach, Rockstars of Science, Science Cheerleaders, Science Communication While I had a completely different post already 60% written for this week’s column, I was struck by a few recent posts about various ways to promote science, which I will outline here. In a sincere defense of the Science Cheerleaders project (see video below), Andrea Kuszewski makes a fascinating analogy about the OCD (obsessive . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Quantifying Outreach to the Cult of Science
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Environmental Sciences Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, Climate Contrarianism, CO2, communication, From the Editor's Desk, global warming, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing on the title, what is the first that comes to your mind? Do you think this is an article describing the latest research on how human-generated carbon dioxide emissions . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment Best of Zelnio, Biocalcification, climate change, CO2, Pteropod, Scientific American I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. [...] To grasp how our input of CO2 feeds back upon polar foods webs we can use the unassuming pteropod mollusk, commonly called the sea angel because of its modified wing-like (ptero-) . . . → Read More: To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 3rd, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Reviews Best of Zelnio, Gecarcoidea natalis, Great Migrations, migration, National Geographic, Red Crab, Rockhopper Penguin Christmas Island red crab migration. Each year they travel from the forest to the seashore to breed. National Geographic embarked on an ambitious two and a half year film project, covering over 420,000 square miles, and telling the story of animal movements for a wide variety of animals. There are several awestruck moments. One of . . . → Read More: Great Migrations
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 27th, 2010 One comment Evolution, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Paleobiology Anatomy, Anemone, Anthozoa, Best of Zelnio, Cambrian, China, Cnidaria, Eolympia pediculata, fossil, Hexacorallia, Mesentery, Microfossil, plos one Continuing its trend as one of the top destinations for out-of-this-world fossil finds, China is yielding yet another piece to the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle. In a recent PLoS One article, Han and colleagues report the findings of a new squishy sea anemone from the Lower Cambrian. The new find lends support to genetic data . . . → Read More: New Fossil Anemone Reveals Innard Secrets
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 15th, 2010 4 comments Industry & Government, Plastic Best of Zelnio, Blog for Action Day, Plastic, Water, Water Bottles, Water Quality “Land gyre” by jonny2love, labeled for resuse on Flickr. This is a post in appreciation of Blog for Action Day’s 2010 theme – Water. People are made mostly of water and thus we need to replenish ourselves, creating a voracious thirst. This is the thirst of nearly 6 billion people on this planet. We also . . . → Read More: The Disease of Plastic Water Bottles
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 8th, 2010 2 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research Best of Zelnio, Bio-foam, Dispersal, larvae, larval dispersal, Marine Reserve Design, Pyura praeputialis, sea squirt, SLOSS, Spawning, Surfactants, Tidal Channels, Tunicate Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography and local oceanography that may have consequences in the debates surrounding marine reserve design. Castillo and colleagues examined the spawning behavior of intertidal tunicates (Pyura praeputialis, an invasive) from the . . . → Read More: Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 4th, 2010 One comment Conservation & Environment, Ecology, New Research Best of Zelnio, competition, energetics, Marine Protected Area, MPA, No-Take Zone, penguin, south africa, Trophic Ecology There is much buzz these days about marine protected areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. We are approaching the age of assessment. There has been enough time passed where we should see a signal of improvement to verify conservation theory. While the data has been trickling in for many MPAs and there is in general an . . . → Read More: Penguins Immediately Benefit From MPA
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 1st, 2010 40 comments Education, Scientist! academia, African-Americans, ASLO, Best of Zelnio, diversity, Ernest Just, Howard University, Minorities, Minorities in Marine Biology, NSF, Race, Robert Trench, Roger Arliner Young, Salary, Samuel Nabrit, SESTAT, STEM Careers At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a variety of trees or are you drowning in a sea of monotony? As a marine ecologist I am trained to measure diversity. Diversity has many attributes and consequences. Biodiversity is . . . → Read More: Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
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