Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets

There’s no getting around it, science is a social enterprise. Go ahead, try and do some by your lonesome. Oh, you may putter and dial-twirl and churn out some damn fine solo research. But you�...

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Conservation International, one of the largest (by budget and size) biodiversity conservation NGOs on the planet, has given itself a facelift. Gone is the familiar green rainforest silhouette (le...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/09/conservation-transformational.html

Okay, that's quite the mouthful. What I meant to say was OoPS, as in Ocean of Pseudoscience Week.The hillbillies over at Southern Fried Science have cooked up more than just beer in a coffee pot ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/09/non-normative-ocean-conceptions-week-at.html

What looks like my blog posts here at MBSL&S, walks like my blog posts here at MBSL&S, and quacks like my blog posts here at MBSL&S, yet ISN'T MBSL&S?

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/09/game-is-afoot.html

Amongst my many reasons for resuscitating MBSL&S, most proximate is that I'm spending the weekend in Monterey, CA, where I'm attending BLUE: the global oceans film and conservation festival.On on...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/08/im-so-blue.html

It was either that header or, "I'm baaaack!"A confluence of really juicy events (some past, some present, and some on the horizon) have brought me out of my bloggy torpor. As I wipe the moss and ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/08/just-when-i-thought-i-was-out-they-pull.html

What's 635 pages long, fully illustrated, weighs 5.4 pounds, cost millions of taxpayer dollars to produce, was written and signed by a blue-ribbon, cross-sectoral panel of ocean scientists, milit...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/06/back-to-blueprint.html

So sue me. I'm not above a little gratuitous self-promostion. In celebration of World Ocean(s) Day, the Coral Reef Alliance is debuting these new videos that help describe our work. Best of all, ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/06/were-on-mission-and-were-in-hurry.html

It all started out nice enough. A Memorial Day outing to Half Moon Bay for some lunch, plenty of farm stands with early summer produce, and maybe some tidepooling at Princeton Beach. But that was...

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Absolutely pathetic.

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I bet you thought Reed Richards was the only Super Scientist. Well think again! A new research fellowship opportunity at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies is changing that (alth...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/super-science-fellowships-in-coral-reef.html

It's Earth Day, so at some point today I hope you reflect on the fact that most of planet Earth is covered by this:An ocean that moderates our climate like this:An ocean which is full of a lot of...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/you-live-here.html

Tip of the hat to a stranded Karen James for pointing me towards this infographic, courtesy of Information is Beautiful.UPDATE: 4/23/10The producers of this infographic issued a retraction of the...

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There are rumors coursing through the intertubes that those rascals at SyFy Channel, the same folks who brought you Megashark vs Giant Octopus, Mega Piranha, and Mansquito, are in development of ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/sharktopus-real-or-urban-legend.html

We here at MBSL&S are incredibly proud of our fantabulous ocean blogging scientist pal Miriam Goldstein on successfully passing her quals at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography! Ma...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/smarty-pants-in-da-hizzle.html

UPDATE: 5/3/2010: It seems that the folks over at Sea Dine are ashamed of the light being cast upon their Snorkel Snax product in action. And justifiably so. I posted images from their own site s...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/snorkel-snax-really.html

Bottle of 2008 The Squid's Fist Sangiovese Shiraz by Australian vintners Some Young Punks: $18.00Look of envy on the DSN Team's face: PricelessThe Squid's Fist: 70% Sangiovese from Kalimna (Baros...

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How many times has this happened to you? You're diving along a beautiful coral reef or chilling-out at 40 feet in a spectacular kelp forest. Suddenly you notice the delicate, translucent beauty o...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-post-jelly-sighting-time.html

During a US House Armed Services Committee hearing last Thursday, March 25, 2010, Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) was questioning Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet, about ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/tipping-points.html

Hot on the heels of his recent celebrity earlier this week in helping MSNBC demystify pictures of a giant ocean isopod making the rounds on the internet, Dr. Craig McClain, noted marine biologist...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/04/deep-sea-biologist-plays-host-makes.html

Daddy likes! Thanks to a post by my friends over at Climate Shifts, I learned of a new ID guide to Indo-Pacific corals. The Coral Finder by BYO Guides is a practical, photo-driven (and best of al...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/03/spanking-new-waterproof-coral-id-guide.html

Another year, another transit around the sun, and yes faithful readers, another chance at glory with The 3rd, Maybe-Annual, MBSL&S Spring Ocean Egg Hunt. I've been delighted to offer this little ...

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/03/3rd-maybe-annual-mbsl-spring-ocean-egg.html

Part travelogue, equal parts science, opinion, and political observations, but mostly dedicated to capturing the often irksome and sometimes wonderful moments that are all part of field-based ocean conservation

http://coralnotesfromthefield.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-little-things.html

Forget Fuck You, Penguin. When the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) wraps up its 15th triennial Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Doha, ...

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As much as I hate tooting my own horn, I've been remiss to pass along a few interesting tidbits I've been involved in over the past few months. I'm much more comfortable in advancing an issue rat...

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