Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

• ‘We Are Not Prepared to Die’: Island Nations Push Ambitious Plan at UN Climate Talks.
• This is beautiful: What the ocean floor can tell us about climate change.

• Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of ocean.
• The Most Terrifying Climate Disasters of 2018.

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

• The Unbearable Maleness of the UN Climate Talks.
• Climate Change Has Wiped Out Most of the World’s Oldest Sea Ice.
• Why Does Halibut Cost So Much? There are good reasons why putting halibut on your plate can strain your wallet.
• Jellyfish are not an ecological dead end.

• Okay Google, Let’s Map Some Mud: A massive new map of the world’s mudflats may help save critical shorebird habitat.
• New giant salamander! Beneath the Waters: A Giant Discovery.
• The orca and the orca catcher: How a generation of killer whales was taken from Puget Sound.
• Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Atlantic Seismic Surveying.
• Nine Coastal States Join Lawsuit to Ban Offshore Air Gun Blasts Okayed by Trump.
• The grind: This week in Deep-sea Mining news.
  • New paper considers protection for damage caused by deep-sea mining.
  • A high-profile deep-sea mining company is struggling.
  • India plans deep dive for seabed minerals.
  • For Nautilus Minerals, the debt comes due.
  • A year of discovery in the deep sea.
  • Mapping the online conversation around Deep-sea Mining.
• The US Lost 1 Warship in WWI. 100 Years Later, We Know What Caused the Sinking.

• How whale sharks saved a Philippine fishing town and its sea life.
• Conservationists clash over coral reefs. Shenzhen divers spark row over the role of human intervention in reef protection.
• What really powers your smartphone and electric car.

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

• Mevencamp and friends (2018) Responses of an abyssal meiobenthic community to short-term burial with crushed nodule particles in the South-East Pacific. DOI: 10.5194/bg-2018-489.
• Donald and friends (2018) Loss of forest intactness elevates global extinction risk in birds. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12469.
• Eom and Wood (2018) The ventilation mechanism of the Pacific hagfish Eptatretus stoutii. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13885.
• Schneider and friends (2018) Past, Present, and Future Approaches Using Computer Vision for Animal Re‐Identification from Camera Trap Data. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13133.
• Cheng and friends (2018) The biogeography of invasion in tropical and temperate seagrass beds: Testing interactive effects of predation and propagule pressure. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12850.
• Donlan and Luque (2018) Exploring the causes of seafood fraud: A meta-analysis on mislabeling and price. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.11.022.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

• China’s scientific community confronts ‘rogue science’.

• Assigning authorship for research papers can be tricky. These approaches can help.

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