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Talkin' Trash
Category: Blogging
I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an...
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Put down the duckie (at least don't throw it into the ocean)!
Category: Ecology
Miriam Goldstein of the Oyster's Garter and Double X blogs (follow her on Twitter) is embarking on a sea-faring expedition! SEAPLEX is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego project studying plastics - yes, including the rubber duckies...
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An Innovative Use of Twitter: monitoring fish catch! Now published.
Category: Technology
A few months ago, I posted about a very innovative way of using Twitter in science - monitoring fish catch by commercial fishermen. The first phase of the study is now complete and the results are published in the journal...
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Waves of Ocean Literacy
Category: Science Education
Periodic Tables and the Museum of Life and Science Present: April 14, 2009 | 7:00 P.M. Waves of Ocean Literacy Speaker: Cynthia Cudaback, NC State University If the Earth is a body, the ocean is its blood, circulating over most...
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An Innovative Use of Twitter: monitoring fish catch!
Category: Blogging
From NC Sea Grant: ....At nearly every fisheries management meeting he attends, Baker hears the same complaint: North Carolina's recreational fishermen don't have to account for their catch. Two years ago, during a regional meeting about snapper and grouper, Baker...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:50 PM • 6 Comments •
Science crowdsourcing - ecology
Category: Technology
Help scientists track plant and animal cycles: The USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) -- a University of Arizona, Tucson-based group of scientists and citizens that monitors the seasonal cycles of plants and animals -- is calling for volunteers to help...
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Warm temperature affects sex ratio in mammals
Category: Ecology
Anne-Marie writes, in Hot Mommas Make Boys: A study published in the latest edition of the Journal of Mammalogy reports the results of a 30 year study on a population of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris), which shows that the...
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Wet or Dry, it's our Earth
Category: Earth
Carnival of the Arid #2, the blog carnival about deserts, is up on Coyote Crossing. Related to lack of water is, well, lack of water and how it affects people, leads to wars over water, etc. So for the World...
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Daniel, welcome back to the blogosphere
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Those of you who have been following the science blogosphere for a while may remember that excellent old blog Down to Earth which, sadly, went dormant back in 2006. I am happy to announce that Daniel Collins has now started...
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