Archive for the 'Ocean' Category
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I was watching the October 13, 2009 episode of the Colbert Report on Comedy Central and was pleasantly surprised to when Stephen interviewed Sylvia Earle. Ms. Earle is a very accomplished ocean explorer.
She just put out (yet another) book, The World Is Blue: How Our Fate And The Oceans Are One. (Personally, that title makes [...]
Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunset “Doing my small part to preserve ocean biodiversity while advancing the vast left wing conspiracy and queer, godless agenda.”
http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2008/08/great-ocean-blogs.html
Sustainable Ocean Project “Changing the way we think about our oceans.”
http://sustainableoceanproject.com/
Blue Planet Divers “A Place for Researchers Divers of All Levels to Connect and Learn.”
http://blueplanetdivers.org
CephalopodCast “Science info + Ocean info.”
http://cephalopodcast.com
The Beacon [...]
It may not come as a surprise, but, a lot of my friends and family consider George Costanza as the most famous marine biologist they know. Long before Seinfeld, Jacques Cousteau, the world’s most well known deep sea explorer, made studying marine science seem fun and not as intimidating as people once thought.
So here are [...]
A hurricane develops due to the hot, hot air temperatures of summer moving along the hot, hot ocean. This collision of heat joins forces to form a mass of air and water that starts swirling, blowing, sinking and rising in a path that you see on the weatherman tracking device.
You probably begin paying attention to [...]
In order to breathe sharks have to keep moving. They have to engulf water to extract the oxygen in the water and then the rest of the water filters out of their gills. If the water current is very strong they can stay still.
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Sharks really do have a sixth sense.
It is the electrosensory organ that we spoke of with the hammerhead sharks. The electrosensory organ is called the ampullae of Lorenzini. Sounds intimidating, but, it is really just a funky jelly filled canal that starts near the nose and helps them find food under the sand and figure [...]
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In reality, there is just one ocean.
However, I understand the confusion as of late on the geographic names applied to different sections of this ocean ecosystem. While we lost a planet (Pluto), we gained an ocean! In 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization named this new ocean the Southern Ocean. Basically, it is the southern equivalent [...]
Actually, before there was life on land. Life in the ocean began about 3.1 to 3.4 billion years ago. Life on land began only 400 million years ago.
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