By Madeline McCurry-Schmidt | September 12, 2012 | http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ Researcher Eugenie Clark is 90 years old. Her office shelves are lined with gaping shark jaws. One is from a tiger shark. It bit her once—the only shark bite of her life. She was driving to talk to a student group, and the shark jaw sat on […]
6:21 PM, Sep 12, 2012 Written by Jessica Clark. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/ ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Diane Schleissing walks the beach bright and early. She has served on the Sea Turtle Patrol in Crescent Beach for eleven years. She’s passionate about turtles. “I love my turtles,” she said with a laugh. She and her team look […]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2012) — Marine conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society working with other coral reef experts have identified heat-tolerant coral species living in locations with continuous background temperature variability as those having the best chance of surviving climate change, according to a new simplified method for measuring coral reef resilience. Therefore, coral reefs […]
By Nina Chestney LONDON | Wed Sep 5, 2012 1:33pm EDT (Reuters) – Bottom trawling by fishermen, long believed to harm marine life, may be even more damaging than previously thought, affecting the seabed as seriously as intensive ploughing of farmland erodes the soil, according to a new Spanish study. Bottom trawling – dragging nets […]
By David Fleshler, Sun Sentinel 10:47 a.m. EDT, September 10, 2012 The giant Caribbean sea anemone, whose tentacles snatch fish, shrimp and other creatures from South Florida’s reefs, is itself frequently snatched by divers collecting them for the aquarium trade. To help rebuild their dwindling population, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission on Wednesday voted […]
9 September 2012 By Matt Bardo Reporter, BBC Nature. Lemon sharks have the ability to learn from each other’s behaviour, scientists have found. The team compared the performance of inexperienced juvenile sharks working with both trained and untrained partners. The results showed that sharks working with trained partners could complete tasks more quickly and successfully. […]
Lauren Davis. September 9, 2012 . http://io9.com/ Matthew Albanese specializes in photo trickery, sculpting detailed dioramas out of everything from garbage bags to jelly beans and lighting them in such a way that they look like natural landscapes. He’s built the surface of Mars from charcoal and paprika, turned ostrich feathers into weeping willows, and […]
Reef Relief will be celebrating the 27th year of the International Coastal Cleanup with a community kayak shoreline cleanup on Saturday, September 15th of Geiger Key. Kayaks are being generously provided by Key West Ecotours. Meet us at Geiger Key Marina located at 5 Geiger Key Rd, on Geiger Key, look for the Reef Relief […]
08/30/12 UPDATE: Dean Jacobson This morning I visited the reservoir site near the Majuro airport (Marshall Islands) and saw that PII (Pacific International Inc.) has flagrantly started to dredge near-shore coral using their excavators. The giant Lima crawler crane, which will be able to reach nearly all the fringing reef, has already been moved to […]
This Weekend – Key West Bar Crawl Raises Funds for Reef Relief This Saturday, September 22nd a group of rum-enthused fanatics will gather in starting at 2pm to celebrate the fine drinking establishments of Key West while raising funds for the Reef Relief and coral reef conservation. Participants will enjoy tropical libations while […]