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blogfish: The jellyfish are coming
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. The jellyfish are coming. Kiss your salmon goodbye. Jellyfish are now 86% of the life in Puget Sound. A sign of things gone badly wrong. Nutrient soup from your poop, Noctiluca blooms (red-orange streaks in the water) and the fish start disappearing. Note: proper scientific caution dictates weaselly caution words like perhaps and maybe should be in this post, so consider them to be here. See p 27 of link for the 86% finding). Posted by Mark Powell.
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blogfish: Puget Sound in trouble?
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. Puget Sound in trouble? I just saw a very scary presentation. Scary, that is, for oceanography wonks. It looks like Puget Sound is changing in ways that people won't like. Fewer fish, lower oxygen, more jellyfish. Thanks to nutrients from sewage treatment plants and some surprising food web changes. You'll know you're seeing it happen if the waters light up, bioluminescence from Noctiluca blooms, as in the funky YouTube video. Posted by Mark Powell.
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NeuroDojo: Carnival of the Blue #45
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Carnival of the Blue #45. The epipelagic: The sunlight zone. The surface of the ocean is the place that most of us are familiar with, since this is where the water meets the land. Humans have been driving stakes into the mud flats and beaches. The interactions of humans with the denizens of these shallow waters are not always. friendly. And well lit does not always mean “visible.” Heed well the tale of Ivan, he who stepped on a stonefish. And live to tell thee the tale. The mesopelagic: The twilight zone.
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blogfish: July 2014
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, July 18, 2014. Ocean fertilization experiment reviewed. Remember the rogue scientists who sprinkled iron in the Pacific Ocean off Canada? Andy Revkin reviews the evidence and comments on the significance of the results. The iron made a plankton bloom, but the experiment was too small to be significant beyond that. No big impact on CO2 or salmon. By the way, I'm reading an interesting new book on rogue ocean scientists, it's a fascinating subject. More later. Swim Aroun...
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blogfish: Natural disasters and ocean ecosystems
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Natural disasters and ocean ecosystems. How did the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami affect the oceans? Really, we don't know, but it's nearly certain that ocean effects are less dramatic than effects on people. Here's an excerpt from an interesting article on the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. Man was not alone in feeling the impact. Ecosystems and other species were also hit. Closer to the shore, many natural ecosystems, most notably coral ...
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blogfish: August 2014
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. The jellyfish are coming. Kiss your salmon goodbye. Jellyfish are now 86% of the life in Puget Sound. A sign of things gone badly wrong. Nutrient soup from your poop, Noctiluca blooms (red-orange streaks in the water) and the fish start disappearing. Note: proper scientific caution dictates weaselly caution words like perhaps and maybe should be in this post, so consider them to be here. See p 27 of link for the 86% finding). Posted by Mark Powell.
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Through the Aquarium Glass: October 2015
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Through the Aquarium Glass. History, News, and Curiosities Regarding the Aquasphere. Thursday, October 1, 2015. The historical precedent to Mickey and Jay. But I was also interested in the video when I ran across this picture researching this morning:. This is a picture of a sunfish caught off the coast of Catalina Island on Sept. 3, 1919. Mr. Van Campen Heilner (The man behind the cart) describes the capture in the Bulletin of the New York Zoological Society:. To read more about it). US Fish and Wildlife.
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Through the Aquarium Glass: February 2016
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Through the Aquarium Glass. History, News, and Curiosities Regarding the Aquasphere. Tuesday, February 2, 2016. Saving our seas by consuming invasive species. Lionfish are a rapidly advancing invasive marine species. They eat juvenile fish, reducing the diversity and native fish population on some species by up to 95%. So, what to do with these creatures? In the middle of the 19th century, two things happened in parallel:. The first was a large influx of immigrants from Europe (and especially Germany).
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DC Dispatches: July 2015
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Nelson Mandela @ trial in 1964. RIP. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Trading Freedom for Security - why arming serving military members on US Soil is the WRONG response to Chattanooga. And I understand the impulse in today’s insecure environment. And when you ...
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DC Dispatches: Government Accountability
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I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Nelson Mandela @ trial in 1964. RIP. For a listing of my posts on how and why government is no longer accountable to "We the people", follow this link:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe To DC Dispatches HERE. Promote Your Page Too. The Blogs I like.
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