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By , on August 6th, 2010 One comment   Carnivals & Link Love   , , , , , , , , ,  

Carnival of the Blue Mike Bok of the sensational Arthropoda blog has the latest Carnival of the Blue (edition #39!) up. Lots of great reads. Next month is held at our good friend Angelo’s Saipan Blog. For “Carnival of the Blue XL: Top of the Food Chain” edition send in your posts about predation in . . . → Read More: The Giant Linkopod

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Dead Zones Are Here To Stay
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By , on October 26th, 2009 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Natural Disaster, New Research, Organisms   , , , , ,  

In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was the first study to quantitatively assess the condition. Chan et al. found that from 2000-2005, hypoxic (low oxygen conditions) extended to shallow water but always remained above 0.5 ml/L. In . . . → Read More: Dead Zones Are Here To Stay

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