satellites – Southern Fried Science

How tiny satellites are tracking marine wildlife

December 1, 2025 Andrew Thaler

Long time friend of the blog, Dr. Jake Levenson, delivers a talk twenty years in the making, about how space technology and open data standards can help protect the ocean.

Space whales. Space. Whales. SPAAAAACE WHAAAAALES! Weekly Salvage: October 21, 2019

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Andrew Thaler

Weekly Salvage

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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

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 Andrew Thaler

Weekly Salvage

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

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Parasitic mussel babies and big whale brains: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, November 30th, 2017

November 30, 2017November 30, 2017 David Shiffman

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Cuttings (short and sweet):

Watch this incredible footage from Blue Planet 2!
Follow Annmarie Fearing, a graduate student researching sawfish conservation, on twitter!
Lobster found with Pepsi logo fuels fears over ocean litter. By Ashifa Kassam, for the Guardian.

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