A World Ocean
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By , on June 8th, 2011 2 comments   Conservation & Environment   ,  

I hope everyone is having a great World Ocean Day today, reflecting on an ocean that needs us just as much as we need it. I wrote a piece for the Scientific American Guest Blog today reflecting on our need to better understand the mind-ocean connection: The ocean is such a ubiquitous part of our . . . → Read More: A World Ocean

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To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification
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By , on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment   Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment   , , , , ,  

I wrote a piece on the plight of our favorite “winged” mollusc, the pteropod, in arctic seas over at Scientific American’s guest blog. [...] To grasp how our input of CO2 feeds back upon polar foods webs we can use the unassuming pteropod mollusk, commonly called the sea angel because of its modified wing-like (ptero-) . . . → Read More: To Catch a Fallen Sea Angel: How a Mighty Mollusc Detects Ocean Acidification

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