Yearly Archives: 2011
When Is an Island Not An Island?
Basic geographical definition is extremely important in international disputes, especially when it comes to maritime claims, writes Martin Lewis. [Read more]
St. Croix Whimbrel Gets Around
Hope, the whimbrel that winters in St Croix, has returned to Virginia for the summer months. As Joseph McClain reports for the College of William and Mary news site, scientists are amazed at what they have learned from its solar transmitter. [Read more]
Nice Story about Dr. Jennings, Marine Biologist
Jennings works as a research fishery biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and as an adjunct professor of fisheries at the University of Georgia. But on Monday he headed back to his alma mater to see if he might inspire students there to pursue a career path similar to his. [Read more]
Lovely Nudibranch
From the blog of the raft An-Tiki, floating across the southern North Atlantic — among other chores, every once in a while they pull a plankton trawl and this nudibranch showed up among the sargasso weed. [Read more]
CCA/IRF Country Environmental Profiles for Eastern Caribbean States On-Line at USAID
We have just learned via some researching by Kevel Lindsay, that USAID has digitized six of the seven Country Environmental Profiles for the Eastern Caribbean countries of Antigua-Barbuda, Dominica, St. Lucia, St.Vincent and the Grenadines, and Gr… [Read more]
Ocean Acidification Policy Brief by IOC
Discussion of Ocean Acidification is recent and the topic is somewhat complex. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission has posted two version s of this briefing for policy makers on their web site at http://ioc3.unesco.org/oanet/index…. [Read more]
UNEP's Achem Steiner Presents the Green Economy Report
At Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies on Wednesday in Washington, Achem Steiner led a discussion of the United Nations Environment Programme’s new summary report “Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development an… [Read more]
Bitter End goes green
When one thinks of St. Patrick’s Day, one conjures up images of dressing green, drinking green beer, and enjoying the ‘luck of the Irish’. These are all good concepts, but we at Bitter End have a slightly different take on it. [Read more]
World Resources Institute Announces: Reefs at Risk Revisited
This new Reefs at Risk Revisited is sixty four times higher in spatial resolution than the original 1998 report, and several times more precise in thematic resolution. [Read more]
The “Two Cultures” are Still with Us
Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor of BoingBoing.net, gave a really good talk at the University of Wisconsin aiming to encourage scientists to communicate effectively with other human beings. A starting point: listening. Another: Start a blog. [Read more]
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