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Protecting the Iron Snail, more then meets the eye, ROV-bot in disguise, saying farewell to a glacier, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: July 29, 2019.

Posted on July 29, 2019July 28, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • For US Citizens: Call your representatives and demand Impeachment Hearings. Now. It is, in point of fact, the absolute least you can do.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • I can’t speak to the practicality of this beyond a few very niche applications, but it is still awesome. Aquanaut, an autonomous submarine that transforms into a humanoid robot.
  • Scientists Just Discovered a 310-Mile Coral Reef Corridor in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • The Trek to Bid Farewell to an Icelandic Glacier: A plaque will soon mark the site of Okjökull, one of Iceland’s dearly departed.
The copper plaque will be installed on Ok in August 2019. COURTESY RICE UNIVERSITY.

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

  • South Pacific islanders threatened by climate change and overfishing.
  • Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior.
  • Don’t Go Looking for Geoengineering Info on YouTube—It’s Mostly Lies, Study Finds.
  • French Minerve submarine is found after disappearing in 1968.
  • Cashing in on the waste sorting revolution.
  • What caused a massive hole in Antarctic sea ice?
  • 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Baltic Sea Looks ‘Like it Sank Yesterday’
Photogrammetric model of the ship’s stern. Credit: Deep Sea Productions/MMT
  • Sea Pangolin: the first ever species endangered by potential deep sea mining.
  • Cities Acidify the Water Next Door: Coastal communities have a stronger effect on local ocean acidification than previously believed.
  • How can China’s climate journalists better engage the public?

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

  • Tollis and friends (2019) Return to the Sea, Get Huge, Beat Cancer: An Analysis of Cetacean Genomes Including an Assembly for the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz099.  
  • Audzijonyte and friends (2019) Atlantis: a spatially explicit end‐to‐end marine ecosystem model with dynamically integrated physics, ecology and socio‐economics modules. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13272.
  • Kågström (2019) A social scientist’s reflection on EIA implementation of methods for threatened species. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12521.
  • Cristescu and friends (2019) Environmental impact assessments can misrepresent species distributions: a case study of koalas in Queensland, Australia. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12455.
  • Salgado and friends (2019) Connectivity and zebra mussel invasion offer short‐term buffering of eutrophication impacts on floodplain lake landscape biodiversity. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12938.

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