Friday Smorgasbord: Extinct mollusks return, deep sea robot reboot, tuna-bots, dolphin birth, Madagascar reefs and NYC LFS makes the WSJ

Another Friday in the book and the last one before the annual mecca to MACNA next weekend in Dallas. We have a full slate of cool tidbits to entertain you and set your weekend off on fun foot. First off…

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Friday Mega-Smorgasbord: Squid arms, robofish, shark feast, sea slugs, coral planting, living undersea, AEFW hit the high seas and gigantic clumps of whale poo

We have a great post lined up for this Friday with everything from amazing to just odd and something in between. We lead off this edition with a breaking story about deep sea squids that actually tear its arms free…

Friday Smorgasbord: Reef building volcanoes, space fish, water jumping robots and GoPro gets competition from JVC

We always knew volcanoes were a major player in the rebuilding of the ocean floor but a new bit of research shows that distant undersea volcanoes are helping build the Great Barrier Reef one hitchhiker-filled rock at a time. It…

Google Reef View is a collaboration to do street view video survey of Great Barrier Reef

Google Reef View – Looks like Google is collaborating with the University of Queensland, and the Caitlin Group to survey Australia’s Greet Barrier Reef and bring it into the tech giant’s popular Google Street View part of Google Maps. The…

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Scientist to freeze, cryogenically preserve Great Barrier Reef corals

[dailymotion width=”680″ height=”382″]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmmiji_scientists-look-to-cryogenics-to-preserve-coral-reefs_news#from=embediframe[/dailymotion] Cryogenics and coral banks are nothing new but as one of the largest and most famous reefs in the world, Australian scientists are exploring using cryogenics to preserve corals from the Great Barrier Reef. We’ve previously seen…

Video of Ribbon Reefs shows part of the scale of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

[vimeo width=”680″ height=”400″]http://vimeo.com/27138522[/vimeo] If mondays are great occasion for exciting stories, edge of your seat kind of stories then it seems suitable to go out on Friday with something more mellow, such as this tranquil clip of the Ribbon Reefs.…

Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve set to be the world’s largest marine park

The Australian government just announced plans to create a marine reserve park covering nearly 1 million square kilometers (385,000 square miles) of the Coral Sea that includes the Great Barrier Reef.  Once opened, the Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve will…

AIMS to take a closer, scientific look at damage to GBR from Chinese Tanker

We all can pretty much figure out the Chinese tanker that got caught up on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef did some massive damage; exactly what the ecological damage done is the current focus of a research team led by the…

Chinese Tanker runs aground near Great Barrier Reef

A tanker ship filled with 950 tons of oil  and 65 thousand tons of coal has run aground 70 miles east of Great Keppel Island, northeast of Australia. Some oil has leaked from the vessel already, and authorities fear the…

Great Barrier Reef marine reserves aiding in reef’s health

A new study was just released showing positive effects from the use of marine reserves on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef benefiting the overall health and resilience of the fragile marine ecosystem. The research found rapid increases in fish and some…

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