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Category: The Basics

Fishing Opinion & Editorial The Basics

Shark finning: a response to Kim Bosco Mo

Alistair Dove November 19, 2012 Finningshark finningsharks

Kim Bosco Mo has a piece in Huff Po Canada today on whether banning shark fin soup is an equitable way to protect sharks.  I…

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Expeditions Life At Sea New Research Scientist! The Basics Vessels and Equipment

We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.3

Dr. M October 16, 2012 budgetexplorationFundingNASAoceanSciencesubmersible

For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…

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Expeditions Gadgets & Gear Life At Sea New Research Scientist! The Basics Vessels and Equipment

We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.1

Dr. M October 16, 2012 budgetexplorationFundingNASAoceanSciencesubmersible

For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…

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Oil Spills The Basics

Guest Post: Crude oil insults in the Caribbean

Miriam Goldstein August 29, 2012 CaribbeanCuracaoecosystem servicesKristen MarhavermangrovesOil Spill

This is a guest post from Dr. Kristen Marhaver. Kristen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, who lives full-time and studies…

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Conservation & Environment Industry & Government The Basics

Whale shark ecotourism: the good, the bad and the ugly

Alistair Dove August 22, 2012 conservationindonesiamarine conservationMexicoPhilippinessustainable ecotourismwhale shark

Practically nothing was known about the biology of whale sharks up until about 15 years ago.  Since that time there has been a veritable explosion…

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Plastic Reviews The Basics

Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Miriam Goldstein August 20, 2012 marine debrisPacific Garbage Patchplastic pollution

O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women…

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Conservation & Environment Ecology Evolution Mating & Reproduction Opinion & Editorial Organisms The Basics

Encomium: Lonesome George

RickMac June 24, 2012 GalapagosLonesome George

I just read that Lonesome George, the presumed sole-remaining member of the Pinta Island giant tortoise species of the Galápagos, has died.  Lonesome George was…

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Fish Reviews The Basics

Hooper Drives The Boat, Chief

RickMac June 20, 2012 careerschildhood obsessionsJawsmemory lanesharks

Picture this: Cape Cod, June 20, 1975.  Gerald Ford is President, gas is .53 cents a gallon, and a carefree, 11 year-old–yet already ocean-nerd, future…

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Climate Change Conservation & Environment Environmental Sciences The Basics Weather

What is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?

Alistair Dove May 9, 2012 dolphinsPelicansPeruUME

As many as 900 dolphins and over 4,000 pelicans have washed up dead on the beaches of northern Peru in the last couple of months,…

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New Research Scientist! The Basics

10 Reasons Why We Should Explore The Deep

Dr. M March 28, 2012 CameronexplorationinnovationJames Cameronmarianas trenchocean exploration

This post is co-authored by Craig McClain and Al Dove Among both scientists and non-scientists there is skepticism about James Cameron’s “Deep Sea Challenge” dive…

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