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Remembering Walter Munk, a photo on a flash drive in a pile of poo from a seal at the bottom of the sea, lucky vikings, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: February 11, 2019

Posted on February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Walter Munk, World-Renowned Oceanographer and Revered Scientist has died.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • So many mesmerizing videos from Deep Sea News! Experience the Life of the Deep Gulf of Mexico in 20 Videos.
  • This is a staggeringly beautiful image: One Great Shot: The Guillemot and the Iceberg.
Carsten Egevang goes looking for seals in Greenland and finds a photogenic guillemot instead.
  • Did you lose a flash drive? NIWA might have it. They were defrosting leopard seal poo…you won’t believe what happened next!
This photo of a sealion on a Southland beach was found on a USB stick swallowed by a leopard seal. Credit: unknown

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

  • Pacific navigator teaches sailors how to travel like their ancestors, featuring some of our students from the Saipan ROV program!
Okeanos Marianas Watch Captain Jerry Joseph sails to Poluwat atoll – one of the old stomping grounds of his grandfather Mau Piailug. Jerry – along with other Okeanos Marianas crew – received Pwo on Poluwat, joining the ranks of master navigators Peia & Nainoa. Photo Credit: Steve Holloway.
  • Six Newly Discovered Catfish Species Have Faces Full of Tentacles.
  • How Small Satellites Will Help Police Earth’s Vast Oceans.
  • Russian activists raise alarm about 100 captured whales kept in Far East ‘prison’.
  • Almost gone: How the Gangetic Dolphin is struggling to cope with the Ganga’s increasing salinity.
  • Ghana: undercover video reveals shocking scale of fish discards.
  • Scientists Will Once Again Try to Explore Alien Ecosystem Exposed by Giant Antarctic Iceberg.
  • How traffickers use Chinese New Year.
  • Fish Hoek beachgoers advised to respect elephant seal moulting.
  • Chile’s latest marine park. The Diego Ramírez-Drake Passage park will protect endangered birds and whales
  • A Faster Way to Find Illicit Fins: Slow, expensive testing has made DNA analysis a poor fit for customs agents on the hunt for protected species—but a new technique could change that.
  • Waste brine – ecological problem or economic opportunity?
  • Sabah whale shark died of starvation after eating plastic bag
  • The Vikings Got Lucky and Hit Greenland During a Warm Spell. But it didn’t go well for them when things got cold again.
  • Using social media to measure air pollution’s psychological toll.

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

  • Holubová and friends (2019) Density dependent attributes of fish aggregative behaviour. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6378.
  • Longo and friends (2019) Aquaculture and the displacement of fisheries captures. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13295.
  • DiBattista and friends (2019) Digging for DNA at depth: rapid universal metabarcoding surveys (RUMS) as a tool to detect coral reef biodiversity across a depth gradient. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6379.
  • Balazy and Kuklinski (2019) Year‐to‐year variability of epifaunal assemblages on a mobile hard substrate—Case study from high latitudes. DOI: 10.1111/maec.12533.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • My 25 Favorite Things For Ocean Field Work.
  • Take a seat at the (policy) table.

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