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Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Column: The Blue Economy is a big deal for the North Shore

The Salem News 04 Nov 2021

Last week, leaders of the North Shore Blue Economy initiative led by UMass Amherst Gloucester Marine Station issued a Phase One assessment that shows great potential ... Collaborators include business, government, nonprofits, marine and fisheries interests, as well as science research and development institutions.

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Baleen whales eat about 16 tonnes per day: study

Taipei Times 04 Nov 2021

“That is roughly the weight of one fully loaded school bus,” said study coauthor Nick Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington ... These gigantic marine mammals were found to eat up to three times more ...

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Can ‘blue carbon’ make offsetting work? These pioneers think so

The Guardian 04 Nov 2021

But the Cispatá conservation project, a collaboration between Colombia’s Marine and Coastal Research Institute (Invemar), Conservation International (CI) and Apple, is not just of interest to birdwatchers and ecologists.

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For Baleen Whales, Meals Are Tons of Fun and Lots of Tons

The Epoch Times 04 Nov 2021

"That is roughly the weight of one fully loaded school bus," said study co-author Nick Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

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Sea shanty and storm data collide in project demonstrating impacts of climate crisis

Phys Dot Org 04 Nov 2021

The project is the result of a collaboration between the University of Plymouth's Marine Institute and its Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) ... Wind speed was assigned to tempo, speeding up the piece as it intensified ... Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS, Director of the Marine Institute, said ... Explore further ... Citation ... ....

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Biologists vastly underestimated how much whales eat and poop

Popular Science 04 Nov 2021

In an accompanying essay, Victor Smetacek, a longtime marine microorganism researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research says that early European sailors in the region described “the sea surface as being coloured red by swarming krill, ...

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Providence Resources completes Barryroe site survey

The Irish Times 04 Nov 2021

Providence Resources said had concluded its well site survey in its key Barryroe field off the coast of Cork. The survey was commissioned by Providence’s subsidiary, Exola DAC and was successfully completed on time and under budget by the Marine Institute’s Celtic Voyager survey vessel ... .

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Providence Resources completes latest Barryroe survey

Irish Independent 04 Nov 2021

The seabed, shallow geophysical and environmental baseline survey was commissioned by Providence’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Exola, and was completed, without incident, on time and under budget by the Marine Institute’s Celtic Voyager survey vessel, according to a statement from the group ... Business Newsletter ... .

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Column: A day to honor right whales

Gloucester Times 04 Nov 2021

With bottom lip opened out to reveal baleen plates hanging from the upper jaw, Watkins, a senior research specialist in marine mammal bioacoustics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutes, described the click-clack sound of plates bumping into each other.

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Kearney Marine hopes to be one of the first to work with the Space Force

Lincoln Journal Star 04 Nov 2021

Marine Corps ... During the first deployment, Skarka was the close battle coordinator and directed Marine and joint forces aviation assets for troops on the ground. On his second deployment Skarka was the senior air coordinator and supervised all Marine Corps aviation operations, including coordination with other joint force headquarters ... Marine Sgt.

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Mayor-elect to start transition

Gloucester Times 04 Nov 2021

Romeo Theken emphasized that she is still focused on getting a utility bill for the treatment plant, working on the waterfront infrastructure with American Rescue Plan Act money, helping Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute continue to expand, and acquiring money from the state to help with improving infrastructure such as road conditions ... 25 ... .

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The Marine Corps is about to become pickier about who it recruits

Yahoo Daily News 03 Nov 2021

It’s time for the military’s aptitude test to take a smaller role in the enlistment process as the Corps looks to recruit fewer and better Marines, Commandant David Berger said ... While some of these plans will be instituted in 2022, Berger said it will take years to fully overhaul the recruitment process for the Marine Corps.

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A natural CO2-sink thanks to symbiotic bacteria

Phys Dot Org 03 Nov 2021

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen now show that seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea lives in symbiosis with bacteria that reside in their roots and provide the nitrogen necessary for growth.

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The curious case of the ancient whale bones

Vox 03 Nov 2021

Adam Metallo/Smithsonian Institution ... “We can only about 50 percent of the time, if that much, give you a solid answer of why that animal died and why it’s stranded,” says Darlene Ketten , a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who refers to her work as “CSI ... Adam Metallo/Smithsonian Institution.

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Big whales eat 3 times as much as previously thought, which means killing them for ...

Business Insider 03 Nov 2021

A humpback whale eating in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary ... "The largest whale species on the planet were systematically hunted, which reduced abundances probably greater than 70% in many cases," Nicholas Pyenson, an author on the study and curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution, told Insider.