Imagine you are yodeling whilst snowshoeing in a majestic mountain range. All of a sudden you hear a rumble. You look up to see a white…
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Category: Environmental Sciences
Epic Science Raps of History – A teaser
It all started on a perfect San Diego summer night, Taco Tuesday to be exact (For those of you who don’t live in the local area,…
View More Epic Science Raps of History – A teaserShark Feeding, Managed Risk, and the Tredwellian Paradigm
Ocean conservation work takes me to many an unusual locale, but none stranger than tomorrow’s destination: Las Vegas. I’m headed there to attend the annual…
View More Shark Feeding, Managed Risk, and the Tredwellian ParadigmFukushima radiation detected 100 miles from California Coast. Still not harmful.
The latest results from the Fukushima radiation citizen science project Our Radioactive Ocean have just been released. NO Cesium-134 has been detected on West Coast shores, but it…
View More Fukushima radiation detected 100 miles from California Coast. Still not harmful.How much weight is the "Ocean Atlas" really carrying on its shoulders?
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor has teamed up with B.R.E.E.F. to create “Ocean Atlas”, the worlds largest underwater sculpture. Underwater reef, diverter of tourists from natural reefs and a new…
View More How much weight is the "Ocean Atlas" really carrying on its shoulders?Are swimming zooplankton driving ocean currents? Sort of.
Biomixing, where the ocean is mixed by swimming animals, has long been a hot topic in oceanography. Some people think all that biological flapping and stroking…
View More Are swimming zooplankton driving ocean currents? Sort of.New Obligations and Continuing Challenges in Shark Conservation
As the sun rose this morning here in Trinidad and Tobago where I’m conducting field work, I was certain about two facts. First: Trinidadians and…
View More New Obligations and Continuing Challenges in Shark ConservationTo El Niño or not to El Niño, that is the question
UPDATE Jan 2015: Turns out, the great El Niño of 2014 may never actually materialize. And if it does, it’s probably going to be wimpy.…
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No way is that a Manta in the Kelp Forest…
Yes…yes it is. This video was just taken off of San Clemente Island by spearfisherman Carter Jessop (used with permission). This is his account…
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What the "Call of the Reef" is Telling Us
Coral reefs are in crisis. They are fragile. They are complex. And they are disappearing faster than we are able to understand them. This threat…
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