Mud volcanoes, starfish wasting, the stinkiest fruit, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: February 4, 2019.

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

• Scientists demand military sonar ban to end mass whale strandings.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

• Mud volcanoes, the baby cousins for hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, don’t get nearly as much attention as they deserve. There she blows! Mud volcanoes in the Mediterranean.

• Starfish wasting disease continues to plague the Pacific: A Starfish-Killing Disease Is Remaking the Oceans.

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

• As a policy, I tend not to mess with animals that might be smarter than me. Should we farm octopus?
• Why Are Some Icebergs Green? Spoilers: it’s not because they’re jealous.
• Wiretapping Minke Whales: Hundreds of hours of intense listening reveal the secretive communications of the Pacific’s smallest baleen whale.
• Led by our own favorite submariner, Erika Bergman, this Vancouver company dove into the biggest underwater sinkhole in the world.
• Radioactive cesium above legal limit detected in fish caught off Fukushima.
• Protest planned as fourth dolphin dies at Dolphinaris Arizona.
• Shutdown pushes Maine fishing community to the brink of crisis.
• This is the most interesting article you’ll read about durian this week. Riding the durian Belt and Road: Risky times for Thai agriculture.

• Male mermaids? Aquamen add a splash of macho to underwater burlesque show.

Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)

• Aalto and friends (2019) Catastrophic Mortality, Allee Effects, and Marine Protected Areas. DOI: 10.1086/701781
• Kayal and friends (2019) Predicting coral community recovery using multi‐species population dynamics models. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13203.
• Mallin and friends (2019) In oceans we trust: Conservation, philanthropy, and the political economy of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.01.010.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

• What Are Your Research Group’s Scientific Core Values?

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

• The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan.

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