Category: marine biology

• Discordant harmonies in views of natural systems by The Sierra Club and others

  Anthropocene . Association to Preserve Cape Cod . biology . Buckminster Fuller . Carl Safina . civilization . coastal communities . conservation . Daniel B Botkin . discordant harmonies . ecological disruption . ecological services . Ecological Society of America . ecology . environment . field biology . field science . First Parish in Needham . forest fires . fragmentation of ecosystems . Gaylord Nelson . George Sugihara . invasive species . Lotka-Volterra systems . marine biology . Nature’s Trust . Peter del Tredici . philosophy of science . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . riverine flooding . shorelines . stream flow . sustainability . sustainable landscaping . unreason . water . wishful environmentalism

  Aug 15.2021
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2020: Looking forward to 2021 and well beyond

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Antarctica . Arctic . marine biology . oceanography . oceans . science . science education . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Jan 4.2021
• Unpacking and Packing (WHOI)

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . Irminger Sea . marine biology . oceanography . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Jul 15.2019
• Marine microbes are eating plastics

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . Anthropocene . basic research . ecological services . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . environment . marine biology . marine debris . materials science . microbiomes . microplastics . oceans . plastics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  May 25.2019
• Hypothetical toxins from plastics? Perhaps actual sources of toxins should be concerns …

  algal blooms . Anthropocene . blue-green algae . BMAA . climate . climate change . climate disruption . coastal communities . coastal investment risks . coasts . Commonwealth of Massachusetts . cyanobacteria . global warming . harmful algae . Hyper Anthropocene . living shorelines . marine biology . marine debris . ocean warming . oceans . pollution . red tide

  Apr 24.2019
• Weekend break: Theme for Earth Day

  agroecology . Aldo Leopold . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . an uncaring American public . argoecology . biology . Botany . Buckminster Fuller . climate . David Suzuki . dynamical systems . E. O. Wilson . earth . Earth Day . ecological disruption . ecological services . Ecological Society of America . ecology . Ecology Action . ecomodernism . ecopragmatism . ecopragmatist . Eli Rabett . environment . Equiterre . evolution . fragmentation of ecosystems . global warming . green tech . greenhouse gases . greenwashing . invasive species . investing . investment in wind and solar energy . investments . Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . Lotka-Volterra systems . marine biology . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . microbiomes . NOAA . oceans . Peter del Tredici . Peter Diggle . Pharyngula . physical materialism . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rate of return regulation . scientific publishing . Spaceship Earth . statistical dependence . Stefan Rahmstorf . Tamino

  Apr 6.2019
• Results of short literature search on impacts of climate change upon ecosystems and bird or animal migration patterns, from the journals of the Ecological Society of America

  adaptation . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . biology . climate change . climate education . climate models . complex systems . differential equations . dynamic generalized linear models . dynamical systems . ecological services . Ecological Society of America . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . evidence . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . marine biology . mass extinctions . nonlinear systems . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . tragedy of the horizon

  Sep 16.2017
• Statements by the Ecological Society of America on the proposed U.S. exit from the Paris Agreement, and on Climate Change

  adaptation . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . Anthropocene . argoecology . Carl Safina . climate change . climate disruption . complex systems . ecological services . ecology . Ecology Action . environment . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . marine biology . mesh models . model-free forecasting . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . science . Science magazine . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . Takens embedding theorem . the tragedy of our present civilization . the value of financial assets . tragedy of the horizon . Wordpress . zero carbon

  Jun 15.2017
• Is the answer to the democratization of Science doing more Citizen Science?

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . astronomy . astrophysics . biology . citizen data . citizen science . citizenship . data science . ecology . education . environment . evidence . life purpose . local self reliance . marine biology . mathematics . mathematics education . maths . moral leadership . new forms of scientific peer review . open source scientific software . science . science education . statistics . the green century . the right to know

  Mar 29.2017
• Yes, I will be marching for Science in Boston

  American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Meteorological Association . American Statistical Association . AMETSOC . astronomy . astrophysics . Carl Sagan . climate . Climate Lab Book . ecology . Eli Rabett . engineering . fluid dynamics . geophysics . hydrology . marine biology . meteorology . physics . population biology . Principles of Planetary Climate . reason . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . theoretical physics . thermodynamics . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . XKCD

  Mar 8.2017
• `Environmental science in a post-truth world’ (Lubchenco and Kammen)

  Akaike Information Criterion . American Association for the Advancement of Science . American Statistical Association . being carbon dioxide . Buckminster Fuller . climate . climate change . coastal communities . coasts . ecological services . ecology . environment . environmental law . evidence . global warming . Humans have a lot to answer for . Hyper Anthropocene . ignorance . Jane Lubchenco . marine biology . mass extinctions . population biology . population dynamics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . risk . science . Spaceship Earth . sustainability . T’kun Olam . temporal myopia . the tragedy of our present civilization

  Feb 1.2017
• “Things going fast”: Summary of a class on climate disruption taught by Professor Ricky Rood

  AMETSOC . Antarctica . Arctic . bridge to nowhere . carbon dioxide . Carbon Worshipers . climate . climate change . climate disruption . climate justice . corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions . environment . evidence . fossil fuels . geophysics . glaciers . glaciology . global warming . Hyper Anthropocene . James Hansen . liberal climate deniers . MA . marine biology . Massachusetts . meteorology . methane . MIchael Mann . natural gas . New England . physics . quantitative biology . quantitative ecology . rationality . reasonableness . Ricky Rood . science . sea level rise . sustainability . the right to be and act stupid . the right to know . the tragedy of our present civilization . zero carbon

  Apr 9.2016
• Going down to the Southern Ocean, by Earle Wilson (on the Scripps R/V Roger Revelle)

  Alison M Macdonald . anemic data . Antarctica . climate data . complex systems . Earle Wilson . Emily Shuckburgh . engineering . environment . fluid dynamics . geophysics . marine biology . NOAA . oceanic eddies . oceanography . open data . Principles of Planetary Climate . sampling . science . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . thermohaline circulation . waves . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Mar 5.2016
• Phytoplankton-delineated oceanic eddies near Antarctica

  AMETSOC . Antarctica . Arctic . bacteria . Carbon Cycle . complex systems . differential equations . diffusion . diffusion processes . dynamic linear models . dynamical systems . Emily Shuckburgh . environment . fluid dynamics . geophysics . GLMs . John Marshall . marine biology . Mathematics and Climate Research Network . NASA . numerical analysis . numerical software . oceanic eddies . oceanography . physics . phytoplankton . science . thermohaline circulation . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Feb 10.2016
• “Finding Dory”

  biology . compassion . Disney . ecology . Epcot . marine biology . Pixar . population biology . science . science education . Scripps Institution of Oceanography . Spaceship Earth . Walt Disney Company . WHOI . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

  Jan 6.2016