Foghorn (A Call to Action!)
- Congratulations to Dr. Hal Holmes of Conservation X Labs for earning a Moore Foundation Inventor Fellowship for his DNA Barcode Project.
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
LarvalBot gently squirts the coral larvae onto damaged reef areas. Credit: QUT Media
Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)
- Argentine Sub Found Partially ‘Imploded’ After Yearlong Search and Argentina lacks technology to salvage submarine wreck.
Part of the wreckage of the ARA San Juan submarine located one year after it vanished into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Photo: The Guardian
- Looters plunder Albania’s sunken treasures.
- Dolphin Found Shot to Death on Manhattan Beach; $5,000 Reward Offered.
- Not really, no. Do we know what it means to engineer the climate?
- ‘Sad surprise’: Amazon fish contaminated by plastic particles.
- The Biologists Using Toy Guns to Thwart a Pacific Snake Invasion.
- This Deep-Sea Fisherman Is Still Posting His Discoveries and OH GOD THE TEETH WHY DOES IT HAVE TEETH.
A horrifying fish discovered by deep-sea fisherman Roman Fedortsov
- Drone finds ‘rare’ shark nursery, 2,500 feet beneath the surface.
- An Octopus Nursery Discovered on a Deep Underwater Mountain.
- As Arctic ship traffic increases, narwhals and other unique animals are at risk.
- Royal IHC Launches World’s Largest Cutter Suction Dredger ‘Spartacus’.
Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)
- Khan and friends (2018) Impact of the 2004 tsunami on the macrofauna of the continental slope of the southeast coast of India. DOI: 10.1111/maec.12527.
- Warner and friends (2018) Seafood sleuthing: How citizen science contributed to the largest market study of seafood mislabeling in the U.S. and informed policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.10.035.
- Guerra (2018) Wolves of the Sea: Managing human-wildlife conflict in an increasingly tense ocean. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.11.002.
- Germond and Mazaris (2018) Climate change and maritime security. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.10.010.
Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)
- Dr. Craig McClain is taking on the academic publishing industry, and he’s bringing the Cajun Navy with him! Tipping Points, For-Profit Scientific Publishing, and Closed Science.
- Where corals lie. Ruth Gates, inspiration to a generation of coral biologists, died on October 25th, 2018.
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