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Mud volcanoes, starfish wasting, the stinkiest fruit, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: February 4, 2019.

Posted on February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Scientists demand military sonar ban to end mass whale strandings.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Mud volcanoes, the baby cousins for hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, don’t get nearly as much attention as they deserve. There she blows! Mud volcanoes in the Mediterranean.
Underwater mud volcanoes in the Flower Garden National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico. Escaping gas can be seen rising from the mud volcano. PC: Sea Research Foundation (SRF) and the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET).
  • Starfish wasting disease continues to plague the Pacific: A Starfish-Killing Disease Is Remaking the Oceans.
Two photos of the same rock, 20 days apart (Neil McDaniel)

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

  • As a policy, I tend not to mess with animals that might be smarter than me. Should we farm octopus?
  • Why Are Some Icebergs Green? Spoilers: it’s not because they’re jealous.
  • Wiretapping Minke Whales: Hundreds of hours of intense listening reveal the secretive communications of the Pacific’s smallest baleen whale.
  • Led by our own favorite submariner, Erika Bergman, this Vancouver company dove into the biggest underwater sinkhole in the world.
  • Radioactive cesium above legal limit detected in fish caught off Fukushima.
  • Protest planned as fourth dolphin dies at Dolphinaris Arizona.
  • Shutdown pushes Maine fishing community to the brink of crisis.
  • This is the most interesting article you’ll read about durian this week. Riding the durian Belt and Road: Risky times for Thai agriculture.
  • Male mermaids? Aquamen add a splash of macho to underwater burlesque show.

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

  • Aalto and friends (2019) Catastrophic Mortality, Allee Effects, and Marine Protected Areas. DOI: 10.1086/701781
  • Kayal and friends (2019) Predicting coral community recovery using multi‐species population dynamics models. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13203.
  • Mallin and friends (2019) In oceans we trust: Conservation, philanthropy, and the political economy of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.01.010.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • What Are Your Research Group’s Scientific Core Values?

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan.

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