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Info on Marine Bio Major

see also Marine Mammals and

Ocean Research UCSC resources

Articles

Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico from fertilizer

Excellent article on plastic in the Pacific Gyre

Sharks off Santa Cruz City on a Hill

Dolphin Attack from City on a Hill

Stormwater pollution in SF Bay (good overview)

Websites

Environmental Defense Fund research

Marine Mammal Rescue Center Here is info on rescue volunteering.

Monterey Bay Aquarium blog

Audio

Sylvia Earle on Google Earth 5 mapping the oceans. Interview here's a sample

Farallon Island discussion KQED NPR radio /10

Dwindling Stocks of Wild Fish Put Fish Farms on the Table San Diego promoters say an open-ocean fish farm could satisfy our demand for seafood and help protect dwindling species. A small pilot version could be operating in a couple of years. But skeptics say the proposed farm would cause more harm than good.

Cleaning Up the Ghost Fleet. For decades, dozens of retired Navy and merchant ships have been slowly decaying in Suisun Bay, leaking pollution into the waters northeast of San Francisco. After years of trying to get the federal government to address the situation, environmental groups sued in 2007, and yesterday they announced a settlement NPR CA Report. 4/10

An amazing whale story (Realplayer required)***

Our Ocean World

'Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest' by Sy Montgomery (several chapters on audio)

Video

The Cove is a documentary about the annual slaughter of dolphins in Japan. audio and videoText and audio. trailer. Short overview in Scientific American.

Jean Michel Cousteau "Call of the Killer Whale" 2009.

Strange Days on Planet Earth from National Geographic. Overfishing and chemical runoff.

UCSC video of deep sea plastic.

The Short Attention Span Science Video on Ecological Sustainability. Example: resilience Lots of info on coral reefs and whales.

Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says. Not only are they incredibly smart, the can control the color and even texture of their skins and "morph." Another example. This once can open a glass jar

Sylvia Earle is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990-1992. She is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General." video TEDtalk Prize

The End of the Line documentary on fishing.

Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see in 3D. TEDtalk video.

Overfishing by trawlers depletes stocks and endanger poor fishermen Link 3/09

Ocean Animal Emergency Features UCSC folks. You can volunteer to help at Marine Mammal Center (see volunteer page).

Sea Otter mystery

David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean. See also longer video TEDtalk

Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash.

The Big Picture

Marine biologist Tierney Thys (Monterey Bay Aquarium) tags the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish.

Robert Ballard on ocean exploration. Crittercam is a videocamera attached to ocean animals to observe their behavior. UCSC alum will showed this work April 5th at UCSC. See Costa and Fowler below. 60 Minutes profile part II 11/09

Video overview on ocean health (beware greenwash ad at end).

Dolphins playing with bubbles

Chef Dan Barber squares off with a dilemma facing many chefs today: how to keep fish on the menu. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie's honeymoon he's enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain. TEDtalk.

Books

The human, the orchid, and the octopus : exploring and conserving our natural world Cousteau, Jacques Yves New York : Bloomsbury S&E Stacks - GC30.C68 A3 2007

People

Sylvia Earle discusses this and other topics in her book The World is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One. Her amazing TEDtalk video. 2009 interview addresses many issues, including fish farms. Colbert Report

Sea Slugs

List of UCSC departments involved in researching the ocean.

UCSC Alumni

Kathryn Sullivan--oceanographer, astronaut, educator wins Global Oceans Award, which recognizes Sullivan for her outstanding contributions to the understanding and conservation of the oceans. The primary goal of the first of her three shuttle missions was to survey the Earth, the atmosphere, and the oceans. She worked on the 2003 Pew report on the oceans.

Teresa Ish helps comsumers find sustainable fish.

Brock Dolman (College Eight '92, Environmental Studies/Biology), Director of The WATER Institute Ecologist Permaculture Program

John Francis, vice president of research, conservation, and exploration for the National Geographic Society works with Crittercam

Current Students

Melinda Fowler tags very large elephant seals

Hoyt Peckham studies endangered turtles

Allison Luengenstudies toxins in the ocean

Engineering students develop a coral reef monitoring system.

Faculty

Rachel Barnett-Johnson, a fisheries biologist, investigates salmon population.

Dan Costa and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest

Global Warming research is being done by Christina Ravelo, a professor of ocean sciences and James Zachos, professor of Earth and planetary sciences.