And it only gets worse if our nation’s children, those that will grow up to be future policy-makers and voters when we are all in depends or 6 feet underground, don’t have an appreciation for the ocean and its myriad of issues! Donate NOW to Oceans in the Classrooms! Reject a future of barren . . . → Read More: This is Your Seamounts… On Fishing
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  October 20th, 2009  One comment  Coral, Organisms, Seamount  Atlantic, Corner Rise, Eric Heupel, New England, NOAA, Seamount By Kevin Zelnio, on October 5th, 2009 2 comments Geology, Natural Disaster American Samoa, earthquake, Natural Disaster, NOAA, Samoa, Surfing, tsunami Neil Lumsden was out surfing when out of nowhere the recent earthquake struck the deep sea off of Samoa. We had no warning, being out in the water outside of the reef pass we didn’t feel the earthquake happen, and everyone was caught completely off guard. All of a sudden, while sitting at the usual . . . → Read More: Samoan Tsunami Survivor
By Dr. M, on September 21st, 2009 3 comments Cephalopods, Expeditions, Organisms Architeuthis, Giant Squid, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Smithsonian NOAA scientists with giant squid aboard the NOAA research vessel Gordon Gunter. (Credit: NOAA) From NOAA… Scientists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service have captured a giant squid while conducting research off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. This is only the second known giant squid obtained from the Gulf of Mexico – the . . . → Read More: Architeuthis Caught In Gulf of Mexico
By Dr. M, on September 21st, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Coral, Organisms Coral, Crab, deep sea, Environmental Defense Fund, Florida, Lophelia, NOAA, North Carolina, reef, trawling From the wire… A vast stretch of deepsea coral reefs in the south Atlantic passed a key step toward full federal protection as a special habitat where destructive fishing trawls are prohibited. The deepwater coral reefs, spanning 23,000 square miles from the North Carolina down to the Florida coast, are a relatively pristine habitat, rich . . . → Read More: Protection For Deep-Water Corals Close
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 6th, 2009 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Fish Cape Cod, Cape Cod Fishermen, Catch Shares, Fisheries Management, fishermen, fishing, Groundfish, Massachussetts, NOAA, Overfishing, Western Pacific You may heard of vegetable coops, meat shares and perhaps even fish shares, now NOAA is advocating “catch shares” for western US fishermen. People can buy in to a particular cooperative harvest each season, ensuring that farmers and fishermen get a fair price for their products. Farmers often practice better farming/harvesting methods that hopefully raise . . . → Read More: West Coast Fishermen to Adopt “Catch Shares”
By Dr. M, on August 18th, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, California, EOS, Geology, hydrate, Hydrothermal Vent, landslide, methane, minerals, New Hampshire, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, plume A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
By Peter Etnoyer, on August 15th, 2009 10 comments Education, Industry & Government, Scientist! commencement, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, TAMU-CC Graduation Day at TAMU-CC I expected an obstacle course on Commencement Day, just one more hurdle to clear, but the book length manuscript was delivered, and the defense was over, so I was hooded by Dr. Tom Shirley, happy the PhD was complete. My little girls were not so happy. They thought I had . . . → Read More: Time to fly
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 3rd, 2009 Leave a comment Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment Jane Lubchenco, NOAA, Rats, Scott Smullen, The Washington Post Was marked by a guest appearance… [From The Washington Post] “She has a fine corner office at 15th and Constitution — nothing fancy, but excellent views of the Ellipse and the Washington Monument. She also discovered that she has her own bathroom — or at least a half-bath that she’ll share with her yet-to-be named . . . → Read More: Lubchenco’s 1st Day at NOAA
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 31st, 2009 4 comments Industry & Government, Vessels and Equipment bailout, Barack Obama, fishing, NOAA, ocean law, ocean management, Omnibus Public Land Management Act, stimulus President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean observation, ocean acidification research and monitoring, coastal and estuarine land conservation, and… shipwrecks! They’re in there somewhere. I just know it. ; ) An astute commenter pointed out this . . . → Read More: Can we get excited now?
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 26th, 2009 2 comments Industry & Government, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Coastal and Ocean Observation Act, HR 146, NOAA, ocean acidification, ocean science Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one step closer to becoming law. Congrats to Sheril and Chris Mooney for their promotion from Scienceblogs. Here’s the details on the oceanic stimulus package. “Ocean and Coastal Exploration and NOAA . . . → Read More: One step closer to stimulus
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