Summer News
By Daniel de la Calle Children in Rio de Janeiro were on vacation for the three Rio+20 summit days. Schools organized activities that involved the environment, sustainability, recycling, awareness; like this sculpture made out of used plastic bottles. ≈Science Magazine recently published an article on Ocean Acidification and the results coming from a new high […]
Fog
By Daniel de la Calle June 20th, with the RIO+20 summit here in Brazil. An agreement to be signed by the heads of governments and ministers was reached yesterday. It is raining, misty, clouds cover at times the peaks encircling Guanabara Bay. We have a screening downtown, in the Museu da República, at 6:30PM […]
Summer News Sample
By Daniel de la Calle Children in Rio de Janeiro were on vacation during the three days of the Rio+20 summit. Some schools organized activities for them, such as art projects using plastics and recyclable materials. ≈Science Magazine recently published an article on Ocean Acidification and the results coming from a new high resolution computer […]
Information & Communication
By Daniel de la Calle Information and communication, going hand in hand as should be: »Lecture near Lake Tahoe: Dr. Howard Spero, UC Davis, will deliver a lecture titled Changing Seas about the earth’s climate, climate change throughout history and ocean (and Lake Tahoe) acidification. The date is March 22nd at 5:30PM and the location […]
Symposia, Volunteer Work, A Job Offer And A Video
By Daniel de la Calle »The Georges River Tidewater Association seeks volunteers to monitor acidification in St. George Estuary (Maine). “GRTA has been developing a monitoring program with assistance from Friends of Casco Bay, the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment, and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. GRTA is investing in sampling […]
Learning & Working Around OA
By Daniel de la Calle One learns and then works, and sometimes one’s work is learning. A few opportunities to do both: ≈A month-long research voyage in Scotland is using the latest robotic submersible technology to study the risks of Ocean Acidification to their deep coral colonies. The Mingulay coral reefs were only discovered ten […]
Tangled Up In Words
By Daniel de la Calle In an LA Times article titled “In Science, Words Matter” oceanographer Elizabeth Tobin refers to the often talked about controversy that terms like the “great Pacific garbage patch”, the algae “red tide”, “global warming”, “Ocean Acidification”, etc tend to be hyperbolic, inaccurate and in occasions simply wrong. She is worried […]
Moncktons And Abrahams
By Daniel de la Calle Whether in our tangible daily slippers-and-ties lives or in our ever growing virtual internet browsing hours, we are often faced with opinions and discourses about the environment, about scientific work and data that are diametrically opposed to what we see and read everywhere. The environment has become a polarized political […]
The Crossing Of The Andes
By Daniel de la Calle You can fool and distract yourself in the days leading to a trip, go through the motions of packing, closing doors and taking cabs in hypnotic discipline, behave in such a drowsy way during the flight that the experience nears teletransportation, but when the captain’s voice comes in the speaker […]
News In Pairs Like Castanets
By Daniel de la Calle Maybe influenced by the traditional Spanish music I was listening to while writing, here are some news in twos: Ω There are two billion tonnes of fish in the oceans, which is about 660 pounds/300 kilograms for each human being on the planet. Villy Christensen, ecosystem modeller with the University […]
THE FUTURE WE WANT and THE FUTURE WE DON’T WANT
By Daniel de la Calle I am sure you have seen this image all over the media these days. I took it on my way to the airport, the night I was leaving Rio: Fish made out of plastic bottles, illuminated at night. They were placed on Botafogo beach, the nearest beach to downtown Rio […]
News Wire
By Daniel de la Calle Woke up today missing Jimmy McNulty, hence the title. News, unstoppable, like rolling trains filled with sea adventures, awards, money, great videos and mahi mahi. Who could possibly offer you more?: •MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) researchers started carrying out this past February a three month expedition along the […]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Daniel de la Calle Two news, one good and one bad. Then the ugly: THE GOOD: NASA claims to have developed an innovative method called OMEGA (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae), that grows algae, cleans waste-water, captures carbon dioxide and ultimately generates biofuel without competing with agriculture for water, fertilizer or land. Wow. […]
A Sea Change is in Colombia
By Daniel de la Calle Our documentary will be showing today at the MALOKA center in downtown Bogotá. The screening begins at 5PM and the organizers have promised a very full house, so if you happen to be here, or live here, in this huge capital of Colombia, make sure to come at least a […]
News Keep Coming
By Daniel de la Calle A new year has begun and that fabricated clean slate feeling is very encouraging. Please find below the almost classic by now mix of news, job offers and information. Same style, new content: •Fish larvae might be directly harmed by Ocean Acidification: various news published on December 11th, 2011, […]
The Hook that Caught the Fish that Saves the Corals that Inspired the Artist
By Daniel de la Calle Here are a few Ocean and Ocean Acidification news bits found while surfing the web over the past week. I hope some are news to you: •How long has man been catching fish from the open ocean? 42,000 years at the very least. Archeologists from the Australian National […]
ANTARCTICA
By Daniel de la Calle This week marked the 100th Anniversary of Amundsen’s expedition to the South Pole. On December 14th Norwegians around the world commemorated the significant date in various ways and followed through the media the last few miles of a 57 day journey that has followed the famous 1911 route. If this […]
News, If That’s What They Are To You
By Daniel de la Calle We are half way into the month of February and very much in need of some news about Ocean Acidification, coral reefs and the environment: »Australian study finds that coral reefs in colder waters have benefited from warmer conditions over the past 110 years. The work was carried out in […]
The Sea in Songs
By Daniel de la Calle On this quiet Sunday afternoon, several songs about the oceans, whales, waves, sailing, gulfs and shores: Katell Keineg. GULF OF ARABY Pearl Jam. OCEANS Coldplay. SWALLOWED IN THE SEA Rod Stewart. SAILING Morcheeba. THE SEA Madredeus. AO LONGE O MAR The Velvet […]
Assorted News
By Daniel de la Calle •Early last week a group of UN organizations participating at the 36th UNESCO General Conference presented a project to protect the world’s oceans and coasts, so threatened by environmental deterioration. The document, titled Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, will be submitted to RIO+20, the UN Conference on […]
Ocean Acidification News on the Web
By Daniel de la Calle Some Ocean Acidification news for this beginning of May: ¤Symposium on Ocean Acidification to be held in Canberra, Australia from the 15th to the 17th of June 2011. The event is titled Ocean Acidification and Implications for Living Marine Resources in the Southern Hemisphere and aims to: “enhance the […]
The Tough Choice
By Daniel de la Calle Let me ask you this question: in the fight to save ecosystems and biodiversity around the globe, do you think we should begin targeting those areas and species with more chances of survival? Or should most funding resources still go to those areas that seem more fragile, more threatened by […]
Autumn News
By Daniel de la Calle •Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute scientists have launched a sophisticated, unique tool to study the effects of Ocean Acidification on deep-sea animals in their native habitat, using free-flowing water. The idea behind Free-Ocean Carbon Enrichment (FOCE) is to create a test area on the seafloor where seawater pH […]
Ocean Acidification News, Again
By Daniel de la Calle I know it has been a while since we last posted news about Ocean Acidification and other related environmental problems on the blog. In an effort to catch up with the latest information out there, here we offer a first list: •Scientists launched the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature […]
To Save Corals
By Daniel de la Calle Right where you read these words now many others have stood, layer upon layer, in a frustrated attempt to write about corals and my dives at the Tayrona National Park back in June. They were not the problem, the source of trouble was the confusing mixture of sensations and […]