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Blending smartphones for science, understanding the environmental hazards of 3D printing, flooding the midwest, and ocean news, too! Monday Morning Salvage: March 25, 2019

Posted on March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Your regular reminder that the currently proposed 2020 US budget is a crime against the American People. Call your representatives, especially if you live in MD, LA, or NC.
    • U.S. Interior Official Suggests Trump’s Drilling Proposal Will Include Parts of Atlantic.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • The destruction of Beira is a catastrophe on a nearly unimaginable scale. ‘Almost Everything Is Destroyed’: Cyclone Idai Leaves Mozambique’s Fourth-Largest City in Ruins.
  • It’s Official, This Is the Oldest Known Mariner’s Astrolabe in the World.
The oldest mariner’s astrolabe ever found, decorated with the Portuguese coat of arms. COURTESY DAVID MEARNS
  • After Two Decades, a Fishy Genetic Mystery Has Been Solved.
  • A scientist faced down the ultimate cold case: How did two groups of fish separately evolve genes for making antifreeze?

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

  • Deep-sea mining: regulating the unknown.
Venting fumeroles just from the crown of Godzilla hydrothermal vent. Ocean Networks Canada
  • Scientists track damage from controversial deep-sea mining method.
  • Discard Studies’ monthly round up of, well, discard studies. It’s The Dirt!
  • Wounded Wilderness: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 30 Years Later.
  • This headline is my brand: Study Shows Rogue Waves Are Becoming More Extreme.
  • Enric Sala: ‘We cannot continue just writing the obituary of the ocean’.
  • More coverage of Dr. McClain’s alligator falls in the Gulf of Mexico: Alligators dropped to darkest Gulf depths to see what bites.
  • The history of our whales and how whaling brought species ‘to brink of extinction’.
  • How is the deep sea so diverse? The struggle is real for late 1900s ecologists.
Small marine animals called macrofauna — snails, worms, clams, and other creatures no bigger than a pencil eraser — live and feed in the seafloor sediment. In an area the size of a coffee table, there may be more than 300 species of macrofauna in deep-sea sediments. Credit: Craig McClain
  • New Climate Change Visualization Presents Two Stark Choices For Our Future.
  • Wounded Wilderness: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 30 Years Later.
  • This headline is my brand: Study Shows Rogue Waves Are Becoming More Extreme.
  • Enric Sala: ‘We cannot continue just writing the obituary of the ocean’.
  • More coverage of Dr. McClain’s alligator falls in the Gulf of Mexico: Alligators dropped to darkest Gulf depths to see what bites.
  • The history of our whales and how whaling brought species ‘to brink of extinction’.
  • New Climate Change Visualization Presents Two Stark Choices For Our Future.
Image: Alexander Radtke
  • Whales in the bay: Great for sightseers, but biologists are concerned.
  • Release the Robots! How researchers are studying stressed sharks.
  • Exploding Whales, Poisoned Porpoises: The Gruesome World of Cetacean Autopsies.
  • Bottom trawling may irreparably damage seamount habitats.
  • Dramatic Satellite Photos Show Historic Flooding Across Central U.S. in Wake of Bomb Cyclone.
  • I am always here for new mountains in the sea. Thousands of unknown underwater mountains found in Earth’s oceans.
  • Even more from Discard Studies: Mapping USA electronics manufacturing pollution.
Chemical releases from the computer and electronics sector, 1991-2015. Click here to open the live map. Source: worldingelectronicwaste.xyz
  • Become? Could conservation become locked in a cycle of violence?
  • Wreckage Of World War II-Era Carrier USS Wasp Discovered.
  • These Scientists Ground an iPhone to Dust to Figure Out What’s Inside.

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

  • Simon‐Lledó and friends (2019) Ecology of a polymetallic nodule occurrence gradient: Implications for deep‐sea mining. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11157.
  • Boesch (2019) Barriers and Bridges in Abating Coastal Eutrophication. DOI :10.3389/fmars.2019.00123.
  • Zhang and friends (2017) Characterization of particle emissions from consumer fused deposition modeling 3D printers. DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2017.1342029.
  • Zhang and friends (2018) Investigating particle emissions and aerosol dynamics from a consumer fused deposition modeling 3D printer with a lognormal moment aerosol model. DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2018.1464115.
  • Liou and friends (2019) Coral-algal interactions at Weizhou Island in the northern South China Sea: variations by taxa and the exacerbating impact of sediments trapped in turf algae. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6590.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • The longer you sit in a closed conference room with a bunch of people, the worse your decision-making will be. Impaired Decision Making in Conference Rooms.

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