DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event
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By , on April 15th, 2011 Leave a comment   Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Oil Spills   , , , , , , , , ,  

Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used to part of The Other 95% team along with me before we closed shop. You can find Eric tweeting as @eclecticechoes.   ——————————– Recently the deaths of bottlenose dolphins . . . → Read More: DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event

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Ghost Ships
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By , on October 29th, 2009 One comment   Carnivals & Link Love, Social Sciences   , , , , , , , , , ,  

The Baychimo, image from Wikimedia Commons Top Tenz as a list of 12 ghost ships. Just kidding, it is just ten. My favorite… One of the most amazing cases of a real-life ghost ship concerns the Baychimo, a cargo steamer that was abandoned and left to drift the seas near Alaska for nearly forty years. . . . → Read More: Ghost Ships

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Just Flip ‘em
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By , on September 15th, 2009 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Organisms   , , , , ,  

Student Horseshoe Crab and the Arts contest winner The Ecological Research & Development Group (ERDG), a non-profit wildlife conservation organization founded in 1995 with the primary focus conserving the four remaining horseshoe crab species, announced the flip’em campaign. Our Just flip ‘em! program is designed to bring attention to the hundreds of thousands of horseshoe . . . → Read More: Just Flip ‘em

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Let The Whales Die
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By , on April 7th, 2009 9 comments   Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Hervey Bay Whales 3938 courtesy of Michael Dawes on Flikr and available by CC Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/) No matter what meaning I intend with the title, it has more than likely made you uncomfortable. It makes me uncomfortable to write it. I do this as a sort of social and individual level experiment for . . . → Read More: Let The Whales Die

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