Hot off the press! Erich Hoyt, MarineBio’s Director of all things cetacean and Senior Research Fellow with the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society in the UK has just published a fully-revised 2nd edition of his book Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises. The new edition features 477 pages, 12-pages of color plates, 100+ [...]

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[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Check out this excellent short film describing the increasingly important issue of ocean acidification and its causes and numerous effects on marine life. Produced by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory: http://www.pml.ac.uk

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I wonder if they’ll rename it “Ocean Change” too… New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows us that not only is global warming (aka Climate Change) increasing the acidity of the entire ocean (by forcing more CO2 into it) and increasing it’s temperature (which alone is forecasted to cause widespread shifts in habitats, changes [...]

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OCEAN ACIDIFICATION A Workshop to Introduce the New Data in the Classroom NODE Module NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program cordially invites teachers in the south Florida area to attend a one-day workshop on ocean acidification introducing our new Data in the Classroom NODE module in: Fort Lauderdale (June 1) South Miami (June 15) Key West [...]

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A year after the BP oil spill, endangered sea turtles still wash up dead on Gulf of Mexico shores in large numbers. A federal investigation suggests that the culprit is likely not oil.

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You can probably guess which “side” I’m on but I thought I’d post this to see what you think.

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In Awe of the Shark from Save Our Seas Foundation. “We got some our shark scientists together to tell us how they feel about sharks….”

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Visit: how to save the Bluefin

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