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A literal foghorn foghorn, Apple’s recycling farce, art from the deep sea, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: March 11, 2019.

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • A literal foghorn. Trump official who said air gun tests don’t hurt whales blasted with air horn.A

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • This reports on the activities of the WWF is shocking and damning. WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People.
  • I am always here for deep-sea art.

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

  • Every so often Atlas Obscura is amazing. An Artist, a Shantyboat, and the Lost History of American River Communities
Made from recycled materials, Modes’s shantyboat can weather the storms. WES MODES/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
  • Dirty Diapers, Used Needles, and More: The Worst Things Americans Try to Recycle.
  • San Diego man charged with catching and keeping great white shark.
  • Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Mysterious ‘Type D’ Killer Whale, Possibly a New Species.
  • Ports That Boomed in China May Never Be the Same as Trade Shifts.
  • An ambitious project aims to map the entire ocean floor. It could also open it up to mining.
Flickr: NOAA’s National Ocean Service
  • Humans Are Taking Up a Surprisingly Large Swath of Antarctica.
  • Applied marine hyperspectral imaging; coral bleaching from a spectral viewpoint.
  • I remember when this call for proposals first went out and damn if they didn’t keep on trucking. DARPA Wants to Turn Sea Life Into a Giant Submarine Detection Network.
  • We should explore the deep ocean, not mine it, by the phenomenal Diva Amon!
  • USS Fitzgerald: A Warship Doomed By the Trump Navy.
  • This is great little slice of life story from gCaptain. Do You Have Any Weapons Onboard?
  • CONSUME. OBEY. Behind the Hype of Apple’s Garbage Plan to End Mining.

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

  • Bayley and friends (2019) Capturing complexity: field-testing the use of ‘structure from motion’ derived virtual models to replicate standard measures of reef physical structure. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6540.
  • Böni (2018) Biophysics and Biomimetics of Hagfish Slime.
    • This PhD thesis contains more than you’ll ever want to know about the incredible properties of Hagfish slime.
  • Toczydlowski and Waller (2019) Drift happens: Molecular genetic diversity and differentiation among populations of jewelweed (Impatiens capensis Meerb.) reflect fragmentation of floodplain forests. DOI: 10.1111/mec.15072,
  • Kohl and friends (2019) Public views about gene editing wildlife for conservation. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13310.
  • Valle and friends (2019) Rapid prototyping of decision‐support tools for conservation. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13305.
  • Cormier and Londsdale (2019) Risk assessment for deep sea mining: An overview of risk. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.02.056.
  • Torney and friends (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13165.

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