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Skate saunas, clone armies, deep news from deep-sea mining, an ocean of plastic, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: February 12, 2018.

Posted on February 12, 2018February 13, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Attack of the clones! A Pet Crayfish Can Clone Itself, and It’s Spreading Around the World!
Ranja Andriantsoa/The Atlantic
  • One of the take-home points in the talk I gave last Friday is that we barely know anything about the services hydrothermal vents provide to the rest of the ocean ecosystems. Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are nurseries for skates.
ROV framegrab of Pacific white skate egg sacs near a black smoker in the Galapagos. Photo Courtesy Ocean Exploration Trust

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

  • This week in Deep-sea Mining:
    • Nautilus Granted New Exploration License; Includes New Targets
    • Minister should listen to the people on Experimental Seabed Mining
    • Seabed Mining – from Raglan To Papua New Guinea
https://ia601509.us.archive.org/26/items/SeabedMiningInPNGLucilleParuAndNatalieLowry180208/Seabed%20Mining%20in%20PNG%20-%20Lucille%20Paru%20and%20Natalie%20Lowry%20180208.mp3

 

  • This week in ocean plastics:
    • Scientists Watch Ocean Plastic Hotspots Form in Real Time.
    • How Microplastics Are Contaminating Seabirds in Remote Regions of Alaska.
    • The Queen (of England) declares war on plastic after David Attenborough documentary.
This is an amazing picture of Attenborough. The Queen with Sir David Attenborough during an event at Buckingham Palace for The Commonwealth Canopy CREDIT: YUI MOK PA
  • Appreciate seafood? Climate change isn’t your friend.
  • Fewer Vultures Could Mean a Lot More Dead Things.
  • Hacked at Sea: Concerns Grow Over Lax Cybersecurity for Ships, Ports.
  • The way the world catches fish defies all economic logic.
  • Folks, don’t touch the coral: Tourist’s mermaid pose incites wrath over coral damage. 

  • Lobster Emoji/s make the cut! Maine senator claws his way to lobster emoji victory. Soon Puffin and Anglerfish.

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

  • Brost and friends (2018) A model-based solution for observational errors in laboratory studies. DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12765.
  • Boetius and Haeckel (2018) Mind the seafloor. DOI: 10.1126/science.aap7301.
  • Vera-Escalona and friends (2018) Past, present, and future of a freshwater fish metapopulation in a threatened landscape. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13093.
  • Johnston and friends (2018) A simple molecular technique for distinguishing species reveals frequent misidentification of Hawaiian corals in the genus Pocillopora. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4355.
  • Salinas-de-León and friends (2018) Deep-sea hydrothermal vents as natural egg-case incubators at the Galapagos Rift. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20046-4.
  • Niner and friends (2018) Deep-sea mining with no net loss of biodiversity – an impossible aim. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00053.
  • Weaver and friends (2018) Environmental Risks of Deep-sea Mining. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-60156-4_11.
  • Cruz and friends (2018) Estimating common dolphin bycatch in the pole-and-line tuna fishery in the Azores. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4285.
  • Mullineaux and friends (2018) Exploring the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in a metacommunity framework. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00049.

Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)

  • Mote Aquarium rebirth planned near I-75, helping City Island campus advance science & ‘blue economy’.
  • National Science Foundation warns sexual harassment will jeopardize researchers’ grants.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • Tales of an Ecotourist: What Travel to Wild Places Can Teach Us About Climate Change by Mike Gunter.

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