A new study in Nature: Geoscience suggests that current estimates of sea-level rise in response to global warming are too low. Rohling et al. utilize…
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Get Used to Acidic Oceans
Mark at blogfish is the bearer of bad news this morning. Ocean acidification is permanent, even with reductions in CO2 (like that will ever happen).…
View More Get Used to Acidic OceansThis Week In The Global Climate Scene
A whole sack full of news on climate this week. Yesterday, I enjoyed an excellent talk delivered by Joaquim Goes from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean…
View More This Week In The Global Climate SceneIn This Evening's Debate We Will Be Focusing on Science
In case you’ve been living in a hole that doesn’t have internet access, something is brewing on the internet. A CALL FOR A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE…
View More In This Evening's Debate We Will Be Focusing on ScienceSaba joins the Deep-sea Club
The latest diving expedition was funny because our unofficial job was to help the Saba join the “deep-sea club”. The plan was to collect gorgonians and crustaceans down to 200m using a nifty little robot from Seabotix launched over the side of a local lobster boat.
View More Saba joins the Deep-sea ClubHow Much Do You Like Big Cuttlefish?
Photo from the Cephalopod PageThe reason I ask is the Giant Australian Cuttlefish, the world’s largest cuttlefish at 23lbs and near 4-5 ft long, may…
View More How Much Do You Like Big Cuttlefish?Cuts In 2008 Shark Take Quotas Not Enough
OCEANA Europe is not pleased with European Commission’s proposals for 2008 shark quotas for Total Allowable Catches (TACs). Two of the species included in the…
View More Cuts In 2008 Shark Take Quotas Not EnoughHow to Save The Ocean
&Here’s the list beginning with my thoughts. Hopefully the readers can suggest other ideas and revisions with the goal of this being a central archive…
View More How to Save The OceanJapanese go whaling for humpbacks
A friend of mine from Japan used to like to begin his grad school seminar talks with a favorite recipe for preparing whale meat. His…
View More Japanese go whaling for humpbacksMRSA Killed By Deep-Sea Bacteria
Before this marine-based life I worked in a hospital. One thing that scared the @#$% out of me was methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. When…
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