Tag Archives: oceans
coral reef update
My coral reef is finished! I dropped it off at Now and Then, a store in Takoma Park, Md., that sells yarn (and lots of other neat stuff). The only addition since my last update is the brown-black one at … Continue reading
coral reef progress report
My own personal Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef now has four pieces: I’m pleased that I haven’t bought any new yarn for this. The caution tape is recycled, of course, and the bright orange and red acrylic yarns came from the … Continue reading
crochet coral reef
People who like to mess with yarn fall into two camps: knitters and crocheters. In knitting, you use two sticks and it’s a disaster if you drop a stitch. In crochet, you use one hook and I don’t know if … Continue reading
coral reefs: the cultural side
Today on Science Careers – a part of the Science magazine website that’s about, you know, careers – I have a profile of Josh Cinner, a guy who studies coral reefs. Only he’s not a marine biologist. Tricky, eh? He’s … Continue reading
museum tourist: american museum of natural history
I went to nerd heaven on Wednesday. I was in New York for a meeting, so I decided this was my big chance to see the American Museum of Natural History. This is the museum that scientists from New York … Continue reading
research vessel tourist
On Thursday, I met up with Brandi Murphy, one of the technicians on my icebreaker trip in the Bering Sea last year. Brandi works for the University of California – San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She’s at their Nimitz … Continue reading
adventures in seafood
The other day I was at the grocery store, and I had tuna on my list. It’s easy, it keeps more or less forever, it fits in cans, I can put it on salads. But then when I was actually … Continue reading
deadly sea – rawr
As the scientist standing at the window next to me said a few minutes ago: “They wouldn’t show *this* on Deadliest Catch, would they?” The Bering Sea is absolutely dead calm. It looks like a pond, only flatter. You can … Continue reading
the romans loved their fish
On Friday I finally made it down to the National Gallery to see the Pompeii exhibit. I visited Pompeii in the summer of 1998, and it was really cool – lots of halfway-standing houses to run around in – but … Continue reading
telling fish tales
Hey, lookit, I blogged. I mean, somewhere other than here. It’s over at ScienceNOW, the daily online news service of Science magazine. The topic: fisheries. Not *all* of the world’s fish are completely doomed. Fisheries scientists have decided that if … Continue reading