Dear people of the world (and in particular any Wildscreen wonders),
This is a taster of some of the work I was involved with in the Philippines earlier this year. It features both WWF-Philippines and Non Government Organisation (NGO) Physalus and their Large Marine Vertebrate Project.
I will be going back out to the Philippines in January 2013 and will be working on Physalus’ Large Marine Vertebrate Project. I intend to film updates from our projects and share them with you all. Unfortunately to make this possible I need to get some more vital equipment. Ideally I would love for someone to sponsor this project (dreams).
If you think you could help in anyway, or would simply like to find out more then I would be delighted to hear from you: sallysnowglobe@gmail.com
Thanks for stopping by,
Sally x
Sally’s video about an NGO I work for featuring ME somewhere in the middle! Great work Sal, good luck with the pitch!
Watch helplessly as this mussel is slowly & inexorably consumed by a sea star. Oh yeah, you’re watching from inside the shell.
This is so cool! You might not know this about sea stars, but certain species have the ability to invert a portion of their stomach and digest their prey from outside their body. If you’re an invertebrate, you can’t exactly crack open a shell the way a bird can.
This sea star pulls open the mussel shell slightly, inserts its stomach and releases a flood of digestive enzymes that dissolve its prey from the inside. You can watch that happen, sped up in the video above.
Sluuuuuuurp.
No word on whether the sea star also releases a white wine/butter sauce.
(via Deep Sea News)
Monday Mind Massage: “This Is Our Planet”
Need help getting in the groove to start the week? Here’s another heart-palpitating time lapse video of our beautiful home, as seen from the International Space Station.
The aurorae, the ionic lightshow of “atmospheric airglow”, loads of lightning, and a few of the 16 sunrises and sunsets they see every day on the ISS.
Soundtrack: The XX
Author: Tomislav Safundžić
Sense of uncontrollable awe: The universe
Breathtaking. Much needed Monday inspiration :)
The Secret Life of Plankton
A new video from TEDEducation about the beautiful, mysterious food web at the smallest scales of marine life. This is like stepping onto an alien world! All life on Earth depends in some way on these varied, microscopic wonders. A few tablespoons of seawater holds more marine life than there are people on Earth.
There is grandeur in this tiny view of life. Prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor, and then smile.
The absolutely stunning, intoxicating, mesmerizing (and other adjectives too) life of plankton. Smile indeed.
“Drone” used to detect illegal logging and deforestation. Concept is to make homebrewed monitoring devices for every-day conservation researchers and environmental activists.
Autopilot drone flying a transect
Background: Autopilot drone developed by a team of ecologists and software developers for forest monitoring, real-time land use mapping, and biodiversity conservation. This is part of a series of field tests in a remote forest area in Sumatra, Indonesia. The plane is fully autopilot, except when landing (due to a small landing area).
Autopilot system is based on ArdupilotMega developed by an open-source community at http://diydrones.com.
The plane is a low cost Hobbyking Bixler RC model.
Camera system is a GoPro Hero HD (version 1).
#1: Logging transect, http://youtu.be/IOm9v0Ewcek
#2: Orangutan search, http://youtu.be/hXTbJA-304k
#3: River mission, http://youtu.be/4icq_takJLwH/T Revkin
How fantastic is this? You could do so much with all that data! And the videos are pretty magic as well.
I look forward to seeing the results of real-time monitoring of deforestation.
(via good-conservation-news)
I Am Science - Embracing Non-Traditional Paths to Science
Remember this series? What started as a collection of tweets is now assembled in an inspiring video. Life is a bumpy road that forks and loops and dead-ends, and the journey along it can be tough. If it doesn’t feel easy, you’re doing it right.
If it’s not easy to learn, you’re challenging yourself.
Everyone’s path is different, in science and in life. Remember these stories to inspire you in both.
(by Mindy Weisberger)
For all of you who worry that your grades aren’t good enough, or you suck at math/chemistry, or you’re just not sure what you want to do. Don’t panic! You aren’t the only ones. Take inspiration from this video, and these people who did it the long way round.
iPhone 4 & 4S Professional Grade Underwater Housing
The as yet unnamed product is a custom underwater housing rated down to 100’ in salt water for the iPhone 4 & 4s. Design has been tested in real world conditions by Emmy winning National Geographic cameraman Ken Corben, it is ready to manufacture and ship.
*I have absolutely no use for this*
*I have absolutely no use for this*
*I have absolutely no use for this*
Self control - I has it.
A (pretty very amateur) promo video I made for the hatchery I was involved in a few years back.
Komodo ‘11 Highlights.
A combination of mine, Jack, and Joe’s footage/ shots from the trip.
Full length feature on it’s way.
FROGFISH ATTACK!
My Ex-boyfriend is an underwater videographer, and he was a major influence on improving my diving and underwater photography. It didn’t work out, but we’re still friendly enough for him to tell me things I’ll get jealous of, as he dives everyday for work. And I do not. For example, seeing Manta’s/Whaleshark/Hammerhead….and this is him ‘getting attacked’ [?] by a Frog Fish. A phenomenon previously unheard of [to myself] leading me to the conclusion that the Frog Fish decided he was far too dodgy a character to be loitering along it’s wall, so it chased him off.
