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Saving the Great Barrier Reef, bolt cutters, bulk cutters, beak scars, and more! Monday Morning Salvage, August 27, 2018.

Posted on August 27, 2018August 26, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Do you have a novel idea that could help save the world’s reefs? Sign up for the Out of the Blue Box Reef Innovation Challenge!

Out of the Blue Box is a global search for new ideas to strengthen the recovery of our iconic Great Barrier Reef. We are calling for solutions to the challenges facing the Great Barrier Reef, and reefs all over the world, to fast-track projects that will have an immediate and lasting impact.

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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • oceanbites has great three part series on undergraduate research.
    • Growing a Scientist: Undergraduate Research 2018, part 1.
    • Growing a Scientist: Undergraduate Research 2018, part 2.
    • Growing a Scientist: Undergraduate Research 2018, part 3.
  • Conservation and climate change needs fewer aisle-crossing compromisers and more Haydukes. Courage and Bolt Cutters: Meet the next generation of climate activists.

  • I’ve been excited about these observations for years. Really ecited to finally see them in the peer-reviewed literature: Beaked whales may frequent a seabed spot marked for mining.
L. MARSH, V. HUVENNE AND D. JONES/ROY. SOC. OPEN SCIENCE 2018
L. MARSH, V. HUVENNE AND D. JONES/ROY. SOC. OPEN SCIENCE 2018

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

  • Scientists Have Found a New Way to Keep Shipwrecks in Shape.
  • The scoop: this week in deep-sea mining:
    • Treasures of the Deep: Tapping a Mineral-Rich Ocean Floor.
    • Seabed mining the next frontier as DeepGreen trawls Pacific for copper.
  • MIT finally figures out how to get planes and submarines to communicate, sort of.
  • Catalonia’s Conflicted Effort to Save Red Coral.
  • Bait shack: this week in fisheries:
    • 150 Years of Shifting Global Fishing.
    • Why a New Fisheries Bill Is Being Dubbed the “Empty Oceans Act”.
  • Fishcoin: A blockchain based data ecosystem for the global seafood industry with a rather interesting bounty program for community engagement.
  • This is really not good: Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record.
  • U.S. Sanctions Russian Shipping Companies, Vessels Over North Korea Oil Transfers.
  • Yes. Yes we should. Balloons Are Bad—Should We Ban Them?
  • Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change.
  • How Bogus ‘Eco-Friendly’ Products Trick You.
  • New Documentary A Whale of a Tale Reexamines the Debate Over Japanese Dolphin Hunts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T1ALfLKUkA

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

  • Marsh and friends (2018) Geomorphological evidence of large vertebrates interacting with the seafloor at abyssal depths in a region designated for deep-sea mining. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.180286.
  • Jorde and friends (2018) Are we underestimating the occurrence of sympatric populations? DOI: 10.1111/mec.14846.
  • Wells and Dale (2018) Contrasting gene flow at different spatial scales revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing in Isocladus armatus, a massively colour polymorphic New Zealand marine isopod. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5462.
  • Crotty and friends (2018) Foundation species patch configuration mediates salt marsh biodiversity, stability and multifunctionality. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13146.
  • He (2018) From country-of-origin labelling (COOL) to seafood import monitoring program (SIMP): How far can seafood traceability rules go? DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.08.003.
  • Ishiyama and friends (2018) Predicting the ecological impacts of large‐dam removals on a river network based on habitat‐network structure and flow regimes. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13137.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park by Lee H. Whittlesey.

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