Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my fish in oil please. PLoS One published an article by Fodrie and Heck concluding that immediate catastrophic loss of fish was avoided in the Gulf oil spill. They also found . . . → Read More: Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
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By Dr. M, on  July 10th, 2011  Leave a comment  Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Mining, Oil Spills  conservation, Dumping, fishing, geosequestration, iron fertilization, IUCN, mining, Oil Spill, pollution, tuna By Dr Bik, on June 28th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Oil Spill, restoration, seafood safety I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with NOAA. If you’ve been to their homepage lately, you’ll notice that the key Deepwater Horizon links have been inserted into a nice little banner across the top of the site. The historic archive! Restoration Projects! Seafood Safety! I’d like to think that Deep-sea News had something to . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon: Resources and Restoration
By Dr. M, on April 25th, 2011 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills BP, corexit, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Skimmed: Oil skimmed off surface. Captured: Oil captured before escaping into the sea. Burned: 400 burning of concentrated slicks moving barrels from water to air. COREXIT Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" by 1.8 million gallos of COREXIT. Deep-Sea Dispersed: Oil "dispersed" at 1500 meteres through a narrow pipe. Evaporated or Dissolved: Oil that disolved in to Gulf . . . → Read More: Pardon Me If I Don’t Start Celebrating
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 20th, 2011 10 comments Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Nearly 5 million barrels of oil were spilled, making the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe the biggest spill in world history. The web is filled with resources telling stories and . . . → Read More: One year after the oil started
By Dr Bik, on April 20th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, all hell broke loose in the Gulf. From scientists’ perspective, last year’s massive oil spill only just unlocked gates of Hades; the full fury and environmental wrath of this catastrophe will besiege the Gulf for years to come. I’m not going to give you a round up of all the news . . . → Read More: Oil Spill anniversary: Show me the money…and data!
By Dr Bik, on April 14th, 2011 One comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill The New York Times has a great article out this week, as we near the year anniversary of the Macondo Well blowout and the ensuing horror of the Gulf oil spill. What has emerged in studies so far is not a final tally of damage, but a new window on the complexities of the gulf, . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon: Science progresses, a year later
By Dr. M, on April 6th, 2011 One comment Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, Transocean Two days ago I posted on the fiasco that characterized Transocean’s recent decision to give out bonuses because of their terrific 2010 safety record. This is despite the Deepwater Horizon even that resulted in a loss of 11 lives. Yesterday Transocean announced that Transocean’s senior management team, led by Chief Executive Officer Steven Newman, announced . . . → Read More: Umm Thanks?
By Dr. M, on April 4th, 2011 3 comments Oil Spills, Uncategorized big balls, brass balls, Gulf of Mexico, Horizon, Oil Spill, Transocean In what will surely take the 2011 Audacity Award Transocean Ltd. made a statement Friday that it had its “best year in safety performance.” O’ no they didn’t! O’ yes Transocean has balls and despite the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon rig that left 11 dead, 9 Transocean employees, and polluting half the Gulf of Mexico they . . . → Read More: Transocean Has Big Brass Balls
By Dr Bik, on April 3rd, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Education, Oil Spills, Scientist! career, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, undergraduates, Workshop 
I’ve just wrapped up another whirlwind week in the Gulf of Mexico – a 3-day sampling trip spanning 250 miles of coastline, followed by a weekend workshop for undergrads covering the “Bioinformatics of Biodiversity” As far as sampling, I got what I needed but it wasn’t pleasant. I re-sampled all our existing sites from Dauphin . . . → Read More: Teaching undergrads the ‘Bioinformatics of Biodiversity’
By Dr Bik, on March 28th, 2011 2 comments Expeditions, Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, sampling My sporadic posting lately has been due to my ridiculous travel schedule – in the past 2 weeks, I’ve been to New York, Maine, San Diego, and now the Gulf of Mexico. I’m currently on another short sampling trip, and at the end of the week I’ll be lecturing on a ‘Bioinformatics of Biodiversity’ workshop . . . → Read More: Gulf sampling, part deux
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