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Ocean apps and beluga migrations: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, April 19th, 2018

Posted on April 19, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Follow marine scientist and public educator Maeva Gauthier on twitter!
  • Want to save the ocean? There’s an app for that! By Tim Fitzgerald, for the EDF blog.
  • Historic deal to curb shipping emissions. By Anna Hirtenstein, for Bloomberg.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • How culture guides belugas arctic odyssey. By Joshua Rapp Learn, for Smithsonian Magazine.
  • Shell game: saving Florida’s oysters may destroy local culture. By Laura Reiley, for the Tampa Bay Times.
  • Plastic is literally everywhere: the epidemic attacking Australia’s oceans. By Graham Readfearn, for the Guardian.
  • Budding barnacle bonanza. By Heather Wiedenhoft, for Hakai.
  • The shellfish gene. By Ed Yong, for the Atlantic.
  • Why this insurer wants to put the spotlight on growing “ocean risk.” By Jessica Leber, for OceansDeeply.
  • How deep sea fish got to be so exceptionally black. By Elizabeth Ann Brown, for National Geographic.

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