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High octopuses don’t love you back, sextants in space, protect our ocean monuments, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: September 24, 2018

Posted on September 24, 2018September 23, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (a call to action)

  • After a decade spent expanding marine protection throughout the US EEZ, the federal government is going to war on healthy oceans: The Trump Administration’s New Attack on Marine Monuments.
  • Want to work for COMPASS in DC? One of the nation’s preeminent science communications institutions is hiring, and trust me, DC needs you.
  • If fleeing to Canada is more your style (David (¬_¬) ), Ocean Watch is hiring a manager to plan, manage and execute the Coastal Ocean Health Initiative.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Gulper Eels are amazing. Amazing.
  • This is an amazing series of visualizations from the Guardian. Seven endangered species that could (almost) fit in a single train carriage.
There are approximately 30 vaquitas left in the world Illustration: Mona Chalabi
There are approximately 30 vaquitas left in the world
Illustration: Mona Chalabi
  • There are sextants on the International Space Station and I can’t stop thinking about it.

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

  • Somehow I missed this the first time around: We May Never Understand the Ocean-Wide Damage Done by Industrial Whaling.
  • Aerial Photos Reveal the Devastation Left by Florence.
Chicken farm buildings are inundated with floodwater near Trenton, North Carolina. Photo: AP
Chicken farm buildings are inundated with floodwater near Trenton, North Carolina.
Photo: AP
  • Coal Ash Could Be Spilling Into North Carolina’s Drinking Water.
  • Epic Polynesian Canoe Voyage Arrives In San Francisco.
  • This fortnight in the great debate over banning fishing in the high seas:
    • Closing the High Seas to Fishing Probably Won’t Hurt Global Food Security.
    • Eyes on the High Seas.
    • Wait, So How Much of the Ocean Is Actually Fished?
  • According to the transitive property, this bear now owns the American automotive industry.
  • Maybe don’t get your octopus high just to get an octo-hug.
  • The Buzz: This fortnight in e-waste and how technology shapes our world.
    • Does driving an electric car help decarbonize the economy?
    • The treasure hidden in our gadgets.
  • Scientists get break finding elusive beaked whales.
  • Tsukiji fish market hosts last tuna auction viewing before move.
An auctioneer starts its new year auction of the frozen tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on January 5, 2018. The famous market opened its doors for public viewing of their tuna auction one last time on Friday before moving to the new location in Toyosu. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)
An auctioneer starts its new year auction of the frozen tuna at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo on January 5, 2018. The famous market opened its doors for public viewing of their tuna auction one last time on Friday before moving to the new location in Toyosu. (AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)
  • Best way to save the orcas? Borrow a submarine and travel down the food chain.
  • Three miles underwater, investigators search for answers to the El Faro disaster.
  • When having babies, is quantity or quality better? from the always excellent oceanbites.
  • Three Freaky New Fish Species Discovered in One of the World’s Deepest Trenches.
  • Wreck of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour ‘discovered’ off US coast.
  • To The Bottom of the Sea with Small Things Considered.
  • Holy Mola! Dolphin, penguins left at defunct aquarium spark concerns.
This photo taken Sept. 19, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a pool for a bottlenose dolphin at the-defunct Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)
This photo taken Sept. 19, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a pool for a bottlenose dolphin at the-defunct Inubosaki Marine Park Aquarium in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)
  • Donald Trump’s Administration Wants to Let Oil and Gas Companies Emit a Lot More Methane.

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

  • Raymond-Yakoubian and Daniel (2018) An Indigenous approach to ocean planning and policy in the Bering Strait region of Alaska. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.08.028.
  • Treves and friends (2018) Differentiating between regulation and hunting as conservation interventions. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13211.
  • Fanelli and friends (2018) Deep-sea mobile megafauna of Mediterranean submarine canyons and open slopes: Analysis of spatial and bathymetric gradients. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.09.010.
  • Baillie and Zhang (2018) Space for nature. DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1397.
  • Barone and friends (2018) Benthic deep-sea fungi in submarine canyons of the Mediterranean Sea. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.09.011.
  • Bräger and friends (2018) The current status of environmental requirements for deep seabed mining issued by the International Seabed Authority. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.003.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • One of the World’s Biggest Scientific Societies Just Made It Possible to Strip an Honor From Alleged Harassers.
  • AAAS Approves Policy to Revoke Elected Fellows for Misconduct or Ethics Breach. Huge props to @McLNeuro for spearheading this initiative.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

  • #DrownYourTown: Exploring Sea Level Rise through real-time, interactive, GIS modeling.
  • Bonehenge – Community action in science outreach.

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