[This is a repost originally published at my old blog, DeepTypeFlow] A grain of sand represents many things to a baby turtle. While still within…
View More To see the world in a grain of sand – movement from a turtle hatchling’s perspectiveTag: sea turtles
Vote for Ocean Revolutionaries
Thought Kitchen is giving away $10,000 to a public minded individual through their “Grant for Change” initiative. The contest awards the ones who get the…
View More Vote for Ocean RevolutionariesThe Real Ocean
J Nichols blog reminds us not to be fooled by digital imitations of the Earth, cool as they are. Stay in touch with the Real…
View More The Real OceanReflections upon an award, thanks, and praises
In which one of the pirates here at at DSN receives the 2008 NOAA David Johnson Award for “outstanding and innovative use of satellite data” for work describing the migratory behavior of blue whales and sea turtles in relation to sea surface temperature fronts in the Northeast Pacific…
View More Reflections upon an award, thanks, and praisesLoggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fishery
Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries.
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