It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE GLAMOUR. Fortunately both you and I can live vicariously through this fine music video from the marine scientists working out of the Gump Station on the French Polynesian island of . . . → Read More: Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
By Dr. M, on  August 1st, 2010 Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms, Social Sciences 'Oro, ahu, architecture, Biomass, Carbon, chlorophyll, climate change, Coral, flux, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, marae, Mo'orea, phytoplankton, POC, Polynesia, SST, The Tide Pool, Thorium An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm from Dalhousie University, provides clear evidence of decreasing phytoplankton biomass over the last century. The researchers used a blended dataset of ~450,000 measurements of chlorophyll consisting of field measurements of . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity
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