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Shrinking Islands, shrieking dolphins, little hobbit shrimp, boat knives, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 18, 2018

Posted on June 18, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • We owe the next generation a better world than we’re giving them. Call your representatives. Demand they stop separating children from their parents at the border. The ACLU has a script to use.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Dispatch from Tangier, the Sinking Island in the Chesapeake.
A combination of storm-driven erosion and sea-level rise, which are both increasing as climate change advances, may soon swallow the island entirely.Photograph by Gordon Campbell / At Altitude Gallery
  • Scientists say they’re confident Chesapeake Bay health is ‘significantly improving’.
  • This is the sound a dolphin might hear if it’s about to become dinner.
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A normal call. 

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The call of a dolphin that would rather not get eaten. 

The Levee (A featured project that emerged from Oceandotcomm)

  • Our Speak Up for the Blue rundown continues!

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

  • Lawsuit Claims $1.6-Billion Toyota-Mazda Factory Could Push Fish Species To Extinction. Great.
  • This week in Climate Change:
    • Rising Seas Will Inundate Coral Reefs That Protect Vulnerable Coasts.
    • Antarctica Is Losing An Unfathomable Amount of Ice. [Is that a pun?! ~Ed.]
Ice mass loss is clearly speeding up, driven largely by what’s going on in West Antarctica. Image: Shepherd, et al., 2018
  • Somehow I missed this the first time around: New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized.
  • How the West Can Counter China’s Maritime Expansion.
  • Why Famed Ocean Advocate Sylvia Earle Is Looking South.
  • How Fish Meant for Market Might End Up in a Museum: Natural history curators and fishers have a deep relationship.
Two opah caught in San Diego, California. JOHN GIBBINS/SDU-T/ZUMA PRESS/ ALAMY
  • File under Problems you didn’t realize were as big as they are: An Alarming Number Of Shipping Companies Are Banning Knives, Here’s How To Stop Them.

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

  • Bowers and friends (2018) Selective reactions to different killer whale call categories in two delphinid species. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.162479.
  • Yeom and friends (2018) A new minute ectosymbiotic harpacticoid copepod living on the sea cucumber Eupentacta fraudatrix in the East/Japan Sea. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4979.
  • de Gier and Fransen (2018) Odontonia plurellicola sp. n. and Odontonia bagginsi sp. n., two new ascidian-associated shrimp from Ternate and Tidore, Indonesia, with a phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palaemonidae). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.765.25277.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • Harassers Aren’t Brilliant Jerks, They’re Bad Scientists–and They Cost All of Us.
  • The Many Reasons Biologists Eat Their Study Subjects.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire by Wendy Hinman.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

  • Three facts (and a lot of questions) about The Ocean Cleanup.
  • Why I keep returning to the Baltimore Water Wheel.

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