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Voyaging canoes, failed sea-steading sea states, breaching ocean plastic, deep-sea mining, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: July 2, 2018
Foghorn (A Call to Action!)
- This year’s Jairo Mora Sandoval Award for Courage in Conservation goes to Patima Tungpuchayakul! Between August 2014 and October 2016, Patima helped rescue 3,000 trafficked fish workers stranded on remote islands in Indonesian waters by the Thai fishing industry from their slavery. Read more about Patima’s tireless work to liberate enslaved peoples in the fishing industry.
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
Atlas Obscura is on a roll this week with some seriously fabulous ocean coverage, including my new favs:
- The Canoe That Changed Hawai‘i: How Hōkūleʻa and its amazing voyage across the Pacific helped kickstart a Hawaiian cultural renaissance.
- Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was.
The wreck of the Jalisco. ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Levee (A featured project that emerged from Oceandotcomm)
Monday Morning Salvage: January 16, 2017
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Ruby Sea Dragons! For the First Time, a Ruby Sea Dragon has been filmed in the wild, and it is magnificent.
- Some SFS deep history: I got my start in marine science working in a seahorse lab. Seahorses are among my favorite animals.
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Monday Morning Salvage: January 2, 2017
Welcome to 2017 and the ninth year of marine science and conservation at Southern Fried Science!
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
- Alex Warneke knows exactly how to push all of my ocean outreach buttons: Low-cost teaching tools? Check! Hands on student engagement? Check! Open-source materials and datasets? Check! 3D Printing? Check! Meet 3D Cabrillo:
Courtesy A. Warneke, DSN.
- Learn more about this awesome project from the National Park Service: How to Build a Better Biomodel.
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A curious case of convergent evolution?
The title of this post is followed by a question mark. That is because what follows is not a statement of fact but a puzzle that I have been mulling over in my head since a photograph was published early last year. I do fervently hope the authors of the paper will forgive me for not citing the picture directly, the full citation can be found at the end of this post. I do this only because I want to lead off with a mystery.