Andrew is a post-doctoral researcher in North Carolina focused on population and conservation genetics in hydrothermal vent communities.



David is a graduate student in Florida. He studies the ecology and conservation of sharks.




Amy is a graduate student in North Carolina studying local ecological knowledge within small scale fisheries.



Chuck is a graduate student in North Carolina focusing on apex predators and how they interact with fisheries.




Lyndell is a graduate student in North Carolina, studying the feeding ecology of cownose rays.




Iris is a graduate student in Washington studying habitat use and feeding habits of juvenile Pacific salmon and herring in Puget Sound.



Michael is a graduate student in Maryland investigating the visual systems of mantis shrimp.



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Watch Blue Pints Episode 8: WormCam!

Watch Blue Pints Episode 7: Big Fish Stories

Watch Blue Pints Episode 6: Science Online Oceans and Hacking the Ocean

Blue Pints returns Monday 4/29 at 6:30 P.M.

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I am pleased to announce the return of Blue Pints, our Google+ hangout discussion series ! Join us at 6:30 P.M. EST on Monday 4/29! The Southern Fried Scientist will be discussing the Sea Leveler and other DIY projects related to ocean instrumentation, and I’ll be talking about ScienceOnline Oceans!

We’ll share the link to watch shortly before the hangout starts here in this post as well as on twitter and Facebook. While the video will be archived, we encourage you to follow along live and ask questions via twitter. Blue Pints is intended to be a casual conversation about marine science, so we’ll each have a pint or three. I hope you’ll join us!

Watch Blue Pints Episode 5: 2012 in review, what’s in store for 2013

Join us tonight at 7 for the first 2013 edition of Blue Pints!

bluepintglassWe’re kicking off the new year by reviving our popular Google+ Hangout — Blue Pints! Join us tonight (Thursday, January 3) at 7 for a casual conversation about marine science and conservation. On this episode, we’ll be reflecting on our favorite moments from 2012 and giving you a peak at what we have planned for Southern Fried Science in 2013.

You’ll find the hangout at my Google+ Page: Andrew David Thaler. We’ll also be broadcasting the link via twitter. Make sure to follow Me: @sfriedscientist, David: @WhySharksMatter, and Amy: @bgrassblecrab before the show.

As always, we’ll respond to comments from the Google+ thread and tweets sent to David.

See you tonight!

You can view our past Blue Pints episodes here.

Watch Episode 4 of Blue Pints: Sea Grant and Sea Monsters

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Watch Blue Pints Episode 3: Japanese Kelp Fishing and Cryptic Species

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Watch Blue Pints Episode 2: Sea Level Rise, Seafood Fraud, Shipwrecked Aliens, and more!

Watch Episode 2 here:

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Check out Episode 1 of Blue Pints: shark fishing, shark finning, and finding common ground in shark conservation

Sunday night at 7:30, David Shiffman and myself will host the first, of what we hope will be many, Blue Pints on Google+. The two of us will get together via Google Hangouts and broadcast a 45-minute-to-one-hour program discussing recent important issues in ocean science, while enjoying a pint of what-cures-you. We’ll provide a link to the live stream (and subsequent YouTube video) here, in this post, as well as announce it over our various social media platforms. We’ll be monitoring the comment thread on the Google+ post, so feel free to ask questions and join the discussion during the hangout.

This week, we’ll be discussing shark fishing, shark finning, and finding common ground in shark conservation. Tune in Sunday at 7:30!

Watch the video here:

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