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Bone-eating Jabba worms, the world’s deepest plastic bag, new shipwrecks, climate change art, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: May 14, 2018.

Posted on May 14, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Yale study: Newspaper op-eds change minds and The Long-lasting Effects of Newspaper Op-Eds on Public Opinion. Scientists and conservationists, this May, make an effort to publish a Letter to the Editor or OpEd in your local paper. If you’ve done so, please leave a link to it in the comments.
  • How to save the high seas: As the United Nations prepares a historic treaty to protect the oceans, scientists highlight what’s needed for success.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • No commentary needed: Eyeless, Mouthless, Bone-Eating Worm Named After Jabba the Hutt.
Osedax worms growing on the vertebrae of a dead whale.
Photo: 2006 MBARI
  • Every ocean, every dive, every time, trash: Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World’s Deepest Ocean Trench.

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

  • Expedition Reveals the Mysteries at the Bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • South Georgia Island Has Finally Been Certified Free of Swarms of Rats That Feasted on Rare Birds.
  • More news from the deep-sea mining world: PNG Government urged to follow Anglo American’s lead.
  • How ‘Ugly’ Toadfish Compose Their Own Strange Love Songs.
  • This week in climate change, denialism, and our inevitable future.
    • Climate Denial is a Form of American Exceptionalism.
    • Report: Marine Protected Areas Offer No Protection from Climate Change.
    • Scientists: Climate change could punish fish habitats targeted for conservation.
  • Frog News! Frog News! Frog News! We Finally Know Where the World’s Deadliest Amphibian Plague Got Started.
  • Check out the pdf, there are some amazing shipwrecks here: 19th Century Shipwrecks Found During Search for MH370.
Image credit: AMSA / Western Australian Museum
  • This Beautiful Watercolor Painting Contains a Dark Climate Message.
A section of “Gulf of Maine Variability”
Image: Courtesy of Jillian Pelto

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

  • Zhou and friends (2018) Characterization of vent fauna at three hydrothermal vent fields on the Southwest Indian Ridge: Implications for biogeography and interannual dynamics on ultraslow-spreading ridges. DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2018.05.001.
  • Spijker and friends (2018) Marine fisheries and future ocean conflict. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12291.
  • Narrowe and friends (2018) Microbial Biodiversity: Straight from the Dolphin’s Mouth. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.068.
  • Kegler and friends (2018) Small tropical islands with dense human population: differences in water quality of near-shore waters are associated with distinct bacterial communities. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4555.
  • LaBella (2018) Gene Flow and Population Structure in Two Species of Deep-Sea Mollusks Assessed using Multilocus Amplicon Datasets. DOI: N/A.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • It turns out “Scientist runs for congress” is not as easy at it seems. A house too far: Two scientists abandon their bids for Congress.
  • Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • The Rope of Tradition: Reflections of a Saipan Carolinian by Lino M. Olopai.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

  • Why a DNA database is a very bad idea. Suddenly relevant again after 8 years.

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