Super congrats to our friends at Oceana, who report on their blog The Beacon today that negotiations to protect over 16 million square miles of…
View More 16.1 Million Square Miles of Deep Seafloor Protected in North PacificCategory: Conservation & Environment
Citizen Science to track lingering oil in the Gulf
Although most of the media has now forgotten about that oil spill thing that happened last year, I’m consistently impressed by strength of ongoing citizen…
View More Citizen Science to track lingering oil in the GulfNPR’s oil spill Hat Trick
Once again this week, NPR was subtly poking us all with a stick—“Hey, remember that oil spill that happened last year?” I love NPR. ‘Fog…
View More NPR’s oil spill Hat TrickOil Spill Update: Deep-Sea Degradation
More bad news from the oil spill front. University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye reporting findings from her fifth Gulf of Mexico expedition since the…
View More Oil Spill Update: Deep-Sea DegradationWild Oysters Functionally Extinct?
Add this to your growing list of Earth going to hell Enjoy your shucking while it lasts. Wild oysters are now “functionally extinct” in many…
View More Wild Oysters Functionally Extinct?Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is Adrift
via Toxic blob drifting in Gulf mystifies scientists | HeraldTribune.com. Just off the Florida Panhandle coastline, within site of Perdido Key, an underwater mass of dead…
View More Better Hide The Kids…Hide The Wife…A Toxic Blob Is AdriftScientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?
February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…
View More Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?Got Shark?
Apologies on my spare offerings of late, but things are crazy busy for me with field work in Fiji. I’m not at liberty to go…
View More Got Shark?Oceans Past: What Do We Know About Them
Poul Holm describes why understanding history is important in marine ecology. Holm is currently chair of the global History of Marine Animal Populations project (HMAP)…
View More Oceans Past: What Do We Know About Them100% Guaranteed, Guilt-Free, Sustainable Sushi?
Fellow science blogger, friend, and colleague Jennifer Jacquet recently invited me to contribute to a special all-ocean-themed issue of the journal Solutions that she, Nancy…
View More 100% Guaranteed, Guilt-Free, Sustainable Sushi?