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Category: Science News
Last couple of weeks months were awfully busy, on many fronts, not least finalizing the ScienceOnline2010 program, herding cats almost 100 moderators/presenters to do various stuff (e.g., respond to my e-mails) in a timely manner, and making sure that registration...
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Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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