Weekly Salvage
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- This cuttlefish:
- Thanks to Nik Hubbard for bringing it to our attention.
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Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Watch this horn shark hatch in this video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium!
Video from Monterey Bay Aquarium - Follow environmental lawyer Linda Nowlan on twitter!
- Salmon farmers use wrasse to combat sea lice, threatening wrasse stocks. By Robin McKie, for the Guardian
Weekly Salvage
Fog Horn (A Call to Action)
- 27 National Monuments are under review by the Department of the Interior. Our Nation Monuments are our National Treasures. Don’t let them be sold to the highest bidder! Submit formal public comments on the DOI Monument Review and make your voice heard.
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Sand. Over the weekend I asked Twitter if they were into sand, and Twitter said yes. So now I’m trapped in an endless cycle of ‘likes’ and facts about sand. it’s a sandstorm!
Jetsam (what we’re enjoying from around the web)
- Tangier Island. It’s disappearing, due to a combination of erosion and sea level rise, and when it goes,Virginia’s last offshore fishing community vanishes, too. We’re visiting Tangier next week, so now is a great time to read up on the challenges facing the island.
- Autonomous Cargo Ships Extend Miner’s Technology Drive to Seas.
- Beasts from the sea dominated the monster flick of the 60s and 70s. Hakai is on the hunt for these leading monsters.
- I’m sure this is fine. Trump Said to Mull Combining Agencies Separated After Gulf Oil Spill.
- Donald Trump vs. the Tide of History on Climate Change. A great piece by my old college roommate. Hi Victor!
- In 1950, an Australian adventurer set out to sail and drive around the world in an old amphibious jeep. It did not go entirely to plan.
- The world’s smallest porpoise has caused a big battle in Baja California.
- Paleoshorelines: Time capsules of the ocean’s ancient shorelines from our friends at oceanbites.
- This week in deep-sea mining: Huge rare metal reserve found on seabed 350 km off Japan.
- The protests against deep-sea mining are also ramping up. This video, which is perhaps the best I’ve seen capturing local concerns about near-shore hydrothermal vent mines, was featured at the UN Ocean Summit.
- Japan’s famous fish market, where the world’s most expensive tuna are sold, is closing down to relocate from it’s historic home: Visit Tsukiji, a ‘Great Wonder of the World,’ While You Still Can.
Academic life
I am pleased to announce that following the success of 2016’s OceansOnline, this event will return!
What is it? OceansOnline focuses on how marine scientists, conservationists, and educators can use internet tools for research, collaboration, and public outreach. It is open to anyone interested in marine science or conservation topics.
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Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Watch this salmon shark. Video by Ravencroft Lodge in Alaska
Video by Ravencroft Lodge, Alaska - Follow Cassandra Ruck, a graduate student studying shark conservation genetics, on twitter!
- Coral reef fish suck up their meals with slime covered lips. By Erin Ross, for Nature News.
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June is National Ocean Month! Take a moment to step back, breathe, and reflect on what the ocean means to you. Go to the beach. Read Moby Dick. Build an underwater robot. And then go remind you representative how critical science-based ocean policy is to the future of our country. It seems like our elected leaders may need a little refresher on that, since the presidential proclamation announcing National Ocean Month is a bit… inaccurate.
Fortunately, we’ve take the time to graciously provide some constructive corrections. You’re welcome.
Weekly Salvage
Fog Horn (A Call to Action)
- We Should All Care About Sea Grant. Despite being one of the most bipartisan research programs in the United States, with a huge return on investment for coastal communities and businesses, Sea Grant is under attack from the current administration. Read the latest at Deep Sea News: Pam DiBona: #IAmSeaGrant.
- 27 National Monuments are under review by the Department of the Interior. Our Nation Monuments are our National Treasures. Don’t let them be sold to the highest bidder! Submit formal public comments on the DOI Monument Review and make your voice heard.
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Seasteading. Ok, we’re not actually obsessed with Seasteading. What we are obsessed with are the increasingly convoluted proposals to create floating nations at sea (heck, I even wrote a novel or two about that). Fresh from the New Republic: Libertarians Seek a Home on the High Seas.
- Ocean/Policy superstar Miriam Goldstein reminded me that China Mieville wrote an absolutely brutal takedown of the degraded imagination of the libertarian seasteaders several years back.
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Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Watch how guitarfish pull their whole eyeball inside their skull instead of blinking (learn more about this here)
Guitarfish can sink their eyeballs into their skull. Video courtesy AAAS. (This is research not wildlife harassment) - Follow Norah Brown, a UBC graduate student studying ocean acidification’s influence on marine ecology, on twitter!
- Dugong baby boom is good news for the Great Barrier Reef. By John Pickrell, for National Geographic.
Weekly Salvage
Fog Horn (A Call to Action)
- #IAmSeaGrant. Despite being one of the most bipartisan research programs in the United States, with a huge return on investment for coastal communities and businesses, Sea Grant is under attack from the current administration. Deep Sea News has been collecting stories from marine researchers who’ve benefited from Sea Grant programs: Ben Wetherill, Nyssa Silbiger, and Christy Bowles.
- 27 National Monuments are under review by the Department of the Interior. Our Nation Monuments are our National Treasures. Don’t let them be sold to the highest bidder! Submit formal public comments on the DOI Monument Review and make your voice heard.
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Zach Weinersmith has perfectly capture the essence of what it is to be a marine biologist in the United States right now. Pure. Abyssal. Horror.
- The Deep Sea News crew is at sea, and Dr. Craig and his team did a hilarious, fascinating, informative Ask Me Anything over at Reddit. Worth reading the whole thread, even though it’s done for now.
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Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Watch this electric torpedo ray in a clip from Jonathan’s Blue World
From Jonathan’s Blue World - Follow Dr. Kara Yopak, a professor at UNC-Wilmington who studies shark brains, on twitter.
- What NOAA does to help Endangered Species. From the NOAA Response and Restoration Blog.