Starting around 540 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion many animal phyla, including the freshest of them all—bivalves, came into existence. Within ~100 million years, bivalves gained gills modified to filter feed, siphons to better breath, and a muscular foot to bury themselves into the sediment. However, for the last ~400 million years . . . → Read More: Can Bivalves Kick It? Yes they can!
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By Dr. M, on  September 25th, 2012  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Organisms  apoptosis, bivalve, Environmental Sciences, genome, heat shock, Mollusca, mollusk, oyster, protein, shell, stress By Dr. M, on June 11th, 2012 3 comments Art, Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Social Sciences Art, beach, Blue Planet, Capitol Hill Ocean Week, color, conservation, Crafts, culture, decorating, Environmental Sciences, Etsy, fashion, Google Search, Jacques Cousteau, Justin Bieber, life aquatic, LOL Cat, Meme, movies, pop culture, Tattoo, twitter The following post is write up of the talk I delivered last week at Capitol Hill Ocean Week Gavelston Bay When we see images like the above it is hard to believe the ocean inspires us. In one of the most striking examples of our connection to the oceans, if humans, any number of us, . . . → Read More: Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American Culture
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2010 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, BP, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, clean energy, climate change, conservaton, deforestation, Democrat, emmissions, Endangered Species Act, Environmental Sciences, EPA, George Bush, green jobs, greenhouse emmissions, Joe Biden, National Parks, offshore drilling, Oil Spill, public land, Recovery Through Retrofit, Republican, smart grid, U.N., White House Obama’s Pledge on the Environment “We cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. Global warming is not a someday problem, it is now. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, the periods of drought. By 2050 . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Obama and the Environment
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 18th, 2009 6 comments Conferences, Environmental Sciences, Scientist! Environmental Sciences, party, seafood My new hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas is hosting this year’s Benthic Ecology Meeting from March 4-7. Abstracts are due this Friday, Jan. 23. Click here for registration information. It should be a nice meeting, not too huge, with just two concurrent sessions. The three day agenda includes sessions on deep-water ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem . . . → Read More: Benthic Ecology Meeting 2009
By Peter Etnoyer, on September 6th, 2008 One comment Conservation & Environment activism, canned tuna, Environmental Sciences, mercury, seafood Shrimp fisherman and environmental activist Diane Wilson gave a talk today at the Harte Research Institute. Diane’s best known for sinking her own shrimp boat in protest of toxic discharge from a Formosa Plastic industrial plant, but she’s taken on Union Carbide and others like a One Woman Army. . . . → Read More: Mercury rising
By Peter Etnoyer, on September 4th, 2008 12 comments Uncategorized bumblebee, conservation, Environmental Sciences, firefly When a sailor misses a chance to go to sea, he tends to wander around his garden, paying special attention to the clouds and the weather, as if he were walking the deck in the sea air. He circles his home like it were a shipyard, looking for repairs. . . . → Read More: Sailor saves a bumblebee
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