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I want you to have amazing adventures with underwater robots, protecting the oceans like national parks, songs of a ice and warming, cannibals, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: October 22, 2018.

Posted on October 22, 2018October 21, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • I want you to have amazing adventures with underwater robots. That’s why Nat Geo and OpenROV are giving away 1000 robot submarines!
  • National Geographic Announces Initiative to Donate 1,000 Underwater Drones to Explore the Ocean.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Get inspired with the latest TED Talk for OpenROV visionary David Lang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k32nNIzWHog

  • Teen scientists went looking for meteorites in the Great Lakes. They found another type of alien.
    • And follow these kids’ incredible expedition on Open Explorer.

The Gam (conversations from the ocean-podcasting world)

  • Hear the eerily beautiful song of the Antarctic ice shelf.

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

  • oceanbites continues to put out some of the best ocean science stories and their headline game is solid: Beyond cannibalism, can tide pools help explain the universe?
  • Divers remove wet wipes from Charleston Water Treatment Plant after massive backup. Eww.
(Charleston Water System)
(Charleston Water System)
  • How ancient whales lost their teeth—and turned into the world’s biggest living filters.
  • Hakai continues their fun series on Coastal Jobs: Driftwood Artist.
  • Infrastructure matters, folks. How a giant water tunnel saved downtown San Antonio during the flood of ’98.
  • First ever video footage of a humpback whale calf nursing.
  • In Iceland, activists, industry are waging war over commercial whaling.
  • Scientists Catch Rare Glimpses of the Endangered Vaquita. I catch common glimpse of the New York Times’s paywall.
  • Hunting for debris in the Arabian Sea: Pakistani divers are clearing old fishing nets but a longer-term solution is needed.
  • I love these little joyblobs. Mesmerizing Deep-Sea “Headless Chicken Monster” Filmed in the Southern Ocean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ9DnZnX66E

  • Earther pulls no punches. The Biggest Organism on Earth Is Dying, and It’s Our Fault.

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

  • Chaput and friends (2018) Near-Surface Environmentally Forced Changes in the Ross Ice Shelf Observed With Ambient Seismic Noise. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL079665.
  • Juliani and Ellefmo (2018) Resource assessment of undiscovered seafloor massive sulfide deposits on an Arctic mid-ocean ridge: Application of grade and tonnage models. DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.10.002.
  • Zereik and friends (2018) Challenges and future trends in marine robotics. DOI: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2018.10.002.

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