May 2011
justmeandthesea asked: I'm from the Philippines too and I've been in love with the ocean and everything in it for as long as I can remember. While I'm a Fine Arts student now, a part of me wonders how my life would've been had I taken marine biology. I'm really happy for you. :)
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via hippiescientist)
This is so true about so many conservation issues.
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My Peeps
My colleagues and friends have caught the Tumblr fever. They’re all geeky passionate about conservation and biology. Check out their blogs:
Tara Beardmore, Marine Biologist and Journalist, passionate about animal rights, making videos about the issues: sexyactionplanet
Rich Cottrell, pseudo-Marine Biologist, Ecologist, Photographer, working his way towards working with Marine Parks and/or...
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Watchyouknowicanspeakwhale:
I thought I’d kick off this blog on a light note. Filmed this rather confused White Eye Moray Eel on a dive off Mabul a few weeks back.
Haha…silly eel!
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Thinking Blue...: Hong Kong bans trawling →
youknowicanspeakwhale:
Hong Kong took an important step this Friday towards restoring it’s seriously depleted waters and protecting it’s marine natural heritage. After more than 5 years of pressure from environmental groups such as WWF the Chinese province banned the use of bottom and mid-water trawling and created a…
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Space Squid
When the space ship Endeavour launched last week, it was carrying an unusual cargo: a baby bob-tail squid.
This is not because the astronauts want a change in their menu: the squid could help us understand how “good” bacteria behave in the microgravity of space. As Jamie Foster of the University of Florida in Gainesville, who is running the experiment, puts it: “Do good...
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eduardo- asked: Indeed, I see your plight - and I appreciate you for your candid honesty on it. What happens in much of Asia (and many Pacific islands too, the Marshalls come to mind) in regards to the aquarium trade as a general rule is little short of reprehensible and vile. The lack of stringent management has truly done terrible things, this I must agree. Shame too, the outlooks I see for much of the...
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Forecasting Turtles
A new study finds that shifting climate and ocean conditions appear to have played a dominant role in recent worldwide declines of endangered loggerhead sea turtles. The conclusion suggests that efforts to protect nesting beaches and keep turtles out of fishing nets will be just part of the solution to saving turtles. But the study also finds that future ocean climate shifts might bring good...
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For seaneryginga
seaneryginga asked me where I majored in Marine Biology. I did not. I went to Plymouth University in the UK. We have a slightly different system to the US.
Read more about it here.
eduardo- asked: This might seem like an unusual question, but well, I'm gonna ask it anyway! I'm a rebel, muwahaha!
Mmkay. I'm basically about to undertake a pretty big personal aquarium project - heavily plankton-fed and filled to the teeth with spawning pairs/harems of fish. Now, the plan has expanded to encompass a sidecar aquarium stocked with azooxanthellae corals and designed...
Mmkay. I'm basically about to undertake a pretty big personal aquarium project - heavily plankton-fed and filled to the teeth with spawning pairs/harems of fish. Now, the plan has expanded to encompass a sidecar aquarium stocked with azooxanthellae corals and designed...
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Good morning balls
This morning I was woken up by the sounds of scampering feet on the roof of the staff accommodation at work. The mischievous long-tailed macaques were at it again.
I looked out the window as they jumped off the roof onto the mango tree, they turned to look at me, groggy eyed primate that I am, and then one scratched it’s balls.
Good morning to you too.
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How can I recycle this? →
eco-autumn:
A website full of ways to recycle or reuse all the stuff that you want to get rid of.
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