Octopus Ballet
Sunday, August 15th, 2010 Marine biology John Delaney, ocean monitoring, octopus None
This footage is just amazing.
Check out John Delaneys’ talk about building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab — at TED.com. I get goose bumps thinking about the vast possibilities in monitoring the world below the ocean surface.
Happy World Oceans Day!
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Marine biology The Ocean Project, World Oceans Day None
Read more about The Ocean Project and this day HERE and sign the Seven C’s pledge to show your support!
ShareThisPoetry from the lab: Photonblues revisited @ #RUC
I actually wrote this while finishing my master thesis the summer of 2007. Being stuck in the lab trying to get some results at the end of my fellowship as a PhD student at UiO, it reappeared quite vividly in my mind.
Before reading this, you’ve got to know a couple of things. First, I’m a nerdy marine botanist. Second, when my mind starts to wander it quite often does so in verses – for some reason. You should also know that quite a few Norwegians struggle attempting to pronounce LOW correctly. It usually comes out as LOVE. At least coming from the mouth of the lecturer at the course Light Climate and Primary production in Arctic environments – incredibly amusing when you’re hyped on coffee and to little sleep due to Arctic midnight sun and attending a master/graduate course spanning four intense and exciting weeks at Svalbard… And especially with the backdrop of your lecturer explaining the reaction centres of the photosynthetic apparatus (RCs) by referring to Monty Pythons sketch on “the machine that goes BING“… Oh, man… priceless.
If you want to know more about light and marine “compensation” levels (E~1%**), THIS is a great place to start. Anyhows and anyways… here it goes:
Photonblues revisited
by: kelpRmy
I’m staring out the window
where I see the mocking sun.
Throwing all those photons at me,
but hitting me with none.
There is this wall between us,
this fucking drag of a thing.
It’s called a shitload of work
and keeps my machine from going “BING”!
My RCs are all open, you know
they’re ready for some love…
But these love-light conditions, man
are really way below (E 1% **)
Well, as you can tell from hearing this,
i’m doing rather swell.
Excuse me while I ask my ambitious self,
to go take a vacation – IN HELL!!
Tomorrow I’m taking the night off to go see a movie. Obviously needed :)
Update from #RUC experiment
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Kelp, Marine biology, PhD, Science None
Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean | Video on TED.com
Friday, May 14th, 2010 Ecology, Marine biology conservation, Enric Sala, TED None
I’ve been posting quite a few TED talks lately… I will try to spread it out more evenly in the future. This time though, I just HAD to post two in a row. The reason is that this brilliant talk by Enric Sala follows up on Jeremy Jacksons kind of pessimistic attitude with a more hopeful approach. He shares quite new insight, which I am sure applies to our northern systems as well. This is a path and a way of thinking we really need to explore more extensively in the future.
If you are interested in the research, I suggest you read this: Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands.
Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean | Video on TED.com
Sunday, May 9th, 2010 Ecology, Marine biology, Uncategorized None
I’ve heard this talk before. What came across as the most important message to me is how we need to realise the synergistic effects created by our fuckups and that we have to face these issues right now!
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