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Doodles from the deep sea, a mining company founders, finding lost warships, rogue scientists, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: December 24, 2018

Posted on December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • ‘We Are Not Prepared to Die’: Island Nations Push Ambitious Plan at UN Climate Talks.
  • This is beautiful: What the ocean floor can tell us about climate change.
Illustrations by Jackie Roche.
  • Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of ocean.
  • The Most Terrifying Climate Disasters of 2018.

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What does your sandwich cost, rare species in the deep, dong worms, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 26, 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • NPR did a great breakdown on the full carbon cost of one sandwich.
  • Public Lab was born from the desperate need for unconflicted data during the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Since then, they’ve grown into a global movement for citizen science. They just relaunched their world-changing balloon mapping kit on Kickstarter. Get yours now!

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Book review: the marine mammal observer’s handbook

Posted on August 22, 2016August 23, 2016 By Chris Parsons
Reviews and Interviews

I agree with Dr Phil Clapham, who provided the forward for the “Marine mammal observer and passive acoustic monitoring handbook” (by V. Todd, I. Todd, J. Gardner & E. Morin): the title is a bit of a mouthful. Therefore, I will refer to the book by the abbreviated title above. That said, this is a really useful book that I’ve found myself reaching for on several occasions when needing to look something up.

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