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This is not an article about epoxy river tables.

Posted on June 4, 2024June 6, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
This is not an article about epoxy river tables.
Built to Last, Featured

Fourteen years ago, when Social Media was fresh and new and full of hope, I started teaching Social Media for Environmental Communications at Duke University. The internet was bursting with potential and we wanted to help ocean campaigners tap into that cognitive surplus for the good of the planet.  This was a data driven course, … Read More “This is not an article about epoxy river tables.” »

Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.

Posted on January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.
Academic life, Science

2023 felt like a year where I was just treading water. I barreled through it so fast that I barely registered everything that we accomplishes (and just how much is left to finish). This was a kludge year for me, with lots of small projects instead of one, big, overarching project. Onwards! Deep-sea Mining remains … Read More “Conservation, Technology, and the Future of the Seafloor: My 2023 science year in review.” »

Vanishing Islands, nuclear leaks, oceans of plastic, and one feisty Beluga. Weekly Salvage: November 18, 2019

Posted on November 18, 2019November 17, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

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Unprecedented destruction in the deep Gulf of Mexico, The Ocean Cleanup’s River Pivot, and More! Weekly Salvage: October 28, 2019.

Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

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Dead whales, glass sponges, 3D-printing for the ocean, and more! Weekly Salvage: October 14, 2019

Posted on October 14, 2019October 13, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

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The Ocean Cleanup has an ocean of problems, whales, KISS, and more! Weekly Salvage: October 7, 2019

Posted on October 7, 2019October 6, 2019 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on The Ocean Cleanup has an ocean of problems, whales, KISS, and more! Weekly Salvage: October 7, 2019
Weekly Salvage

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Boaty McBoatface triumphs, Narluga ascends, Sharks decline, too many bro-authors, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 24, 2019

Posted on June 24, 2019June 23, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

In every issue of the Monday Morning Salvage, we try to highlight 2 to 5 papers from the scientific literature. In doing so, we attempt to provide a broad and diverse cross-section of the diversity of people conducting scientific research. However, our priority is in highlighting papers of particular interest to ocean science, and occasionally that means that we end up recommending papers that are exclusively authored by men. A new paper by Salerno and friends highlights the extreme extent to which papers led by men excludes women co-authors.

To do our small part to push back against this phenomenon, we are adopting a new style guide for paper citations. Conventionally, at Southern Fried Science, we use the colloquial “and friends” instead of “et al.” to make paper citations more approachable and less jargon-y. Going forward, in cases where a paper contains only male co-authors, we will instead replace “et al.” with “and some other dudes“.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • It is the hero we deserve. Boaty McBoatface Just Helped Solve a Deep-Sea Mystery.
Boaty McBoatface, fresh off of doing science. Photo: NOC
  • Shark populations in NC coastal waters are down, despite uninformed opinions based on absolutely nothing.
  • It may be formed from rock and plastic, but ‘plasticrust’ is by far the most Metal name they could have come up with. A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island.
“Plasticrust” sticking to rocks on the shores of Madeira. Photo: Ignacio Gestoso

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After mining a seabed is forever changed, divers do good and bad, eating plastic, a Musk mystery sub, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 17, 2019

Posted on June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • What Makes Things Slimy? Now, I’m just a humble country deep-sea ecologist, but I reckon it’s probably the slime.
  • I’m not not considering this: I Live Alone in an Island Paradise.
  • Hong Kong diver, 66, wages marine war against ocean’s silent killers – ghost nets.
Mr Harry Chan (in blue t-shirt) with divers who have joined his cause from Today Online.

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A literal foghorn foghorn, Apple’s recycling farce, art from the deep sea, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: March 11, 2019.

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • A literal foghorn. Trump official who said air gun tests don’t hurt whales blasted with air horn.A

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • This reports on the activities of the WWF is shocking and damning. WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People.
  • I am always here for deep-sea art.

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The fate of the deep sea is being decided behind closed doors, plastic in the deepest trench, memories of whales, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: March 4, 2019

Posted on March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Last week was a huge week for deep-sea mining and there’s still more coming. Catch up on the latest!
    • Species threatened by deep-sea mining.
    • The future of deep seabed mining.
    • Deep seabed mining: key questions.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Legendary submarine pilot Erika Bergman, a couple dudes, and a group of scientists make exciting discovery inside Great Blue Hole and What Erika Bergman, Richard Branson, Fabien Cousteau, and Aquatica Submarines Found In Belize’s Great Blue Hole.
The voyage meant scientists could construct a 3D map of the hole. Picture: Thomas Bodhi Wade/Aquatica Submarines

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