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Since the end of the last LP I've started the first year of my PhD in oceanography.  I've only really taken classes about plankton so far, so I'm looking forward to seeing all the macroscopic fish touchin'.
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Cutesy Southern girl who works in the ocean? Can't unhear her voice as Sandy.
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Nov 30, 2012 00:44
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Discendo Vox posted:I completely agree. There's way too much Cisjardered thinking going on in this thread. Everyone needs to take a moment and check their vessel privilege. The Bible says Adam and Eve, not Amphora and Canteen. 
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Apr 27, 2013 17:32
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Monkfish is really that good? Guess I'll have to give it a shot next time. Eating sea urchin still kinda weirds me out for some reason. I recently got the opportunity to try skate for the first time, then felt bad about how delicious it was when I learned that a lot of skates are unsustainably fished.  I got to work at my department's touch tank exhibit for Rutgers Day yesterday! We had horseshoe crabs, fiddler crabs, green sea urchins, whelks, lady crabs, and spider crabs. It was a lot of fun handling them all, but making sure the little kids crowding around and grabbing at them didn't stress them out too much was a challenge. I made sure all the little kids still got to touch all the sea creatures they wanted, though.
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Apr 28, 2013 17:07
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Her new haircut makes her look like Ma-Ti. Seriously.
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Mar 14, 2014 16:53
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tlarn posted:
 Pretty sure it's the inspiration for the Pokemon Huntail.
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May 1, 2014 20:06
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Pelican eels look like something out of a videogame, I swear I've seen something like them before.
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gschmidl posted:It's not giant, but but it's still adorable! I'm kinda surprised we don't have at least one person studying turtles in my department, but as far as I know the only charismatic macrofauna people work on here is fish. I wish I got to learn more about turtles from the people here...
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May 2, 2014 13:59
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tlarn posted:I just want one episode where Captain Planet doesn't receive or manages to lose Heart and becomes a vengeful nature god; it would finally cut the crap with him doing all this poo poo for the sake of nature. Maybe he'd duke it out with Gaia, even! Two avatars of nature fighting for the earth. As long as the remaining Planeteers are still there blithely cheering Cap on like the oblivious little vigilantes they are. "You can do it, Captain Planet! Punish the humans for their hubris!"
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Aug 24, 2014 18:03
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We're gonna have that million pelagos in no time with royalties from selling this miracle cure! ...Right? 
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Sep 2, 2014 21:07
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Sea dirt is actually pretty neat! One reason it's mainly silica and continental dust is that as particles sink to the bottom of the ocean, any and every possible bit of them that can be considered nutritious to some sort of life is eaten along the way (unless you've got a very high deposition area like a river mouth). Even after the particles hit the seabed, benthic organisms (things that live at or below the ocean floor) still try to eat them, then down below those critters are countless different species of bacteria, relying on less energy efficient and more arcane methods of creating energy from whatever's left behind. I believe we've found chemosynthetic bacteria (bacteria that rely on chemical reactions for sustenance as opposed to sunlight or eating other things) down over a kilometer into the sea floor! In addition, where the silica comes from in the first place is the shells of plankton such as diatoms.  They take in dissolved silica in the water, make shells out of it, and then once the plankton dies the shells sink (and are not typically consumed on their own). The other main type of shell, created by plankton such as coccolithophores, is made of calcium carbonate, but in general calcium carbonate is found only in the deepest ocean sediment because ocean water (particularly in the Pacific) is too acidic, so the shells tend to dissolve before they're sedimented. It's possible that the gradually increasing acidity of the ocean is putting pressure on the organisms that create calcium carbonate shells to keep their shells structurally sound, and we think this is part of what's causing large coral die-offs as well. Ocean acidification is a problem! Edit: achillesforever6 we had the same idea! I'm currently working on a Master's in oceanography.
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Sep 6, 2014 06:06
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Did y'all hear about this one? We may have discovered a completely new branch of life in the sea.
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Sep 10, 2014 04:11
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My department recently hosted as a special guest speaker Marc Mangel, Australia's expert witness in the IWC Australia vs. Japan whaling case. To win, Australia needed to demonstrate to the International Court of Justice not that Japan's whale science program was bad, but entirely non-existent. They were taking hundreds of whales out of the ocean and basically doing nothing that could in any way be called "research" with the animals. In some ways, as Japan tried desperately to justify its practices, the case was ultimately about the definition of science itself. A bit more background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqFoHhV2ARI
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Jan 17, 2015 23:19
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Pretty much.
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Jan 17, 2015 23:56
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As someone from California who knows SF pretty well, I will be unable to think of Coit Tower as anything other than a giant sprinkler ever again. Eta: I would also like to request a gif of the fireworks rave inferno Rose Spirit fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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Jun 8, 2015 01:27
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Obviously Turkey in the Straw is better, since it's what all the ice cream trucks near me play.
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Jun 25, 2015 18:03
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I began and completed my Master's degree in oceanography over the course of this LP. It was way more entertaining than any of my classes, though.  Thanks so much for all the effort put into this LP, it was a great ride!
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