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The real deep reefs of South Carolina, dolphin chatter, autonomous starfish killing robots, an exciting submarine discovery, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: September 3, 2018

Posted on September 3, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Robots versus Aliens is my favorite genre of conservation technology. Sea-Star Murdering Robots Are Deployed in the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Fish Bombardment is my other. Video: Utah Officials Restock Remote Lakes by Plane.

The Gam (conversations from the ocean-podcasting world)

Speak Up for the Blue with two great recent episodes.

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

  • Such a  cool story! Go Alvin! 85 Miles of Atlantic Coral Reef Stayed Hidden Until Now.
  • Environmentalists win appeal against seabed mining decision.
  • This is brilliant!

https://twitter.com/eldahshan/status/1035929578626318336

  • The Mysterious Science of Motion Sickness: New research starts to explain why some people feel nauseous on cars, boats, buses, and carnival rides, while others don’t.
  • It’s an older paper, but still a great paper: Jumbo Shrimp: The First Definitive Evidence of a Megalodon Nursery.
Megalodon teeth from several museum collections used for size and jaw placement comparisons.
Megalodon teeth from several museum collections used for size and jaw placement comparisons.
  • The Ecologist on a Mission to Count New York’s Whales.
  • run. fish. beer. Conservation through Recreation. From our friends at the Fisheries Blog.
  • Lonely dolphin stranded in Scottish firth alters ‘speech’ to fit in with local sea life.
  • Bankrupt Titanic Collector Is Selling Everything. Cool cool cool.
  • It’s Photoshop. Thousands share photo of man with 16-foot shark on Outer Banks. There’s a big problem with it.
No hyperlink link, it’s a fake photo.
  • When Conservation Backfires: Ironically, the creation of huge marine reserves can temporarily worsen the problems they are designed to address.
  • USNS Comfort Ordered To Colombia But The Future Remains Uncertain For The Hospital Ship.
  • How Escaped Pets Took Over Florida. When store-bought animals are released, they may go from pet to pest.

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

  • Willoughby and Christie (2018) Long‐term demographic and genetic effects of releasing captive‐born individuals into the wild. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13217.
  • Coldren and friends (2018) Warming accelerates mangrove expansion and surface elevation gain in a subtropical wetland. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13049.
  • Gooden and Grenyer (2018) The psychological appeal of owning private land for conservation. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13215.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • The Realm of the Submarine by Paul Cohen.

Story time! I found this delightful volume in a used book store in Annapolis. Inside the front cover, I found a letter from the author to Admiral Mike Rindskopf, the youngest officer to command a fleet submarine and (when he died in 2011) the last living US commander of a WWII sub. What a cool piece of submarine history!

The Realm of the Submarine.It gets better! Check out the end page inlay illustration the sizes of various submarines compared to a blue whale. Not only does it show just how big military subs are compared to research subs (we have bad priorities), but some of the sizes genuinely surprised me. I always though that Aluminaut (4), for example, was about the same size as Alvin (3).

From The Realm of the Submarine.

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