I am liveblogging Hurricane Dolly from Corpus Christi, Texas. It’s raining here in the Coastal Bend. Not too much wind. Thanks to the storm we…
View More Hurricane stokes tuna consumption, Part 4Author: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Hello Dolly, Part 3
The second Atlantic hurricane of the year has arrived. Hello Dolly.
View More Hello Dolly, Part 3Clouds in the Hood, Part 2
Clouds can be a sailor’s best friend. Given, you’d have to be an awfully lonely sailor, and probably have to scratch a half dozen unmentionables off the list before you ever got to “clouds”, but, … hey, some modern sailors keep a nice cloud book with them in the navigation room. OK?
View More Clouds in the Hood, Part 2Blogging the Storm, Part 1
The view from my desk in the kitchen is a sunny garden near the bay, but Tropical Storm Dolly is moving slowly west from 200 km off the coast here in the Gulf of Mexico. I am “in the Cone”. The one question on my mind, though, is how and will this tropical storm intensify?
View More Blogging the Storm, Part 1Yikes. I'm in the Cone!
The supermarket in Corpus Christi is jammed and classes are cancelled the day after tomorrow at Texas A&M Universe in anticipation of Hurricane Dolly’s landfall…
View More Yikes. I'm in the Cone!TGIF: Postcard from "Sharkbite capital of the World"
The internet’s abuzz about this photo of a surfer in Smyrna Beach, Florida (the sharkbite capitol of the world). Is it real or is it…
View More TGIF: Postcard from "Sharkbite capital of the World"Find your Inner Fish
World Wildlife Fund has an entertaining new website called WaveForward where you can “discover your inner fish” by answering a few questions about where you…
View More Find your Inner FishIs it all over for corals?
A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the “the human meteor”.
View More Is it all over for corals?Score one for home schoolers!
Students from the New York City Home Educators Association (NYCHEA) took second place behind Blue Hills Technical High School in the 2008 NE Regional ROV…
View More Score one for home schoolers!March of the Penguins Dwindles
From CNN.com: “Penguins may be the tuxedo-clad version of a canary in the coal mine, with generally ailing populations from a combination of global warming,…
View More March of the Penguins Dwindles