This is the question that has been floating around the marine blogs this week. The complaint is that Discovery Channel “is promoting negative stereotypes about…
View More Discovery Channel: Friend or Foe of Sharks?Category: Conservation & Environment
Once upon a time, the ocean was blue
Over the years, I’ve marveled at the ways and means of different scientists. Some have a career that’s focused like a laser beam, boring through…
View More Once upon a time, the ocean was blueReality Check on Whaling, and Its Opposition
Folks must have been shocked last week to hear outgoing whaling Commissioner Dr. Bill Hogarth say he was convinced “there would be less whales killed…
View More Reality Check on Whaling, and Its OppositionMoving forward too slowly?
From the New York Times… The House passed legislation on Friday intended to address global warming and transform the way the nation produces and uses…
View More Moving forward too slowly?Giant Isopods and Shark Rays in Cincinnati?
Finding my self in Cincinnati for a conference, I couldn’t help myself from heading across the river into Kentucky to the Newport Aquarium. This aquarium…
View More Giant Isopods and Shark Rays in Cincinnati?Happy Birthday Jacques!
Jacques-Yves Cousteau born on June 11, 1910
View More Happy Birthday Jacques!Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles Do
A commercial fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico last month ensnared a 8ft long missile in his longline. The missile contained a hole leading the…
View More Fish Don’t Kill People, Air-To-Air Missiles DoSea-Link Petition is Front Page News
The plight of the RV Seward-Johnson and Sea-Link submersibles made the front page at the Palm Beach Post yesterday. The article features interviews with Harbor…
View More Sea-Link Petition is Front Page NewsMy World Ocean Day Wish – Kevin Z
I am absolutely horrible about remembering to bring in my cloth sacks to the grocery store. It is quite shameful too considering my background and…
View More My World Ocean Day Wish – Kevin ZMetal Taste Goood…Nom, Nom, Nom
New research out in Microbiology reports on a strain of the bacteria Brachybacterium (Mn32) that can remove toxic metal manganese from solution by oxidizing in…
View More Metal Taste Goood…Nom, Nom, Nom