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Thursday Afternoon Dredging: September 14th, 2017

Posted on September 14, 2017September 13, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Watch this bat ray at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
  • Follow Marie Auger-Méthé, an Arctic ecologist, on twitter!
  • How sea creatures change color. From Nature Research Highlights.
  • Global fingerprints of sea level rise revealed by satellites. By Rachael Lallensack for Nature News.

 

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Hurricane effects on fish. By Troy Farmer, for the Fisheries Blog
  • Twisted Fishter- how mud eels change their face. By Jake Buehler, for Hakai.
  • Brexit leaves French fishermen on the hook. By Joanna Kakissis, for NPR.

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