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.
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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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