Category: What’s New
Further Information Links
- Galway Atlantaquaria website and Facebook Page
- Ryan Institute
- Geological Society of London’s Great Geobake Off with Entries and Results
- Secret recipe tutorial!!
This year for World Oceans Day, we are hoping to host a Blog Carnival! A blog carnival is essentially, a sort of anthology, zine, or compilation of blog posts, as detailed on this link– in this case about seabed habitats. As part of this we are calling all Marine related blog writers to submit their own favourite posts related to the seabed-related sciences including marine biology, surveying, geology, technology or oceanography. It might be a blog post to do with your groups work, a marine plant or animal, an excursion or trip or expedition etc. We invite you to send in your marine blog posts to us via the contact us page. We will evaluate the entries and then include them in a celebratory blog carnival about Seabed Habitats on World Oceans Day on 8th June. Very exciting stuff!!
This year at the Beneath the Waves Film Festival, the 2014 People’s Choice award went to “Michael and the Peppermints” created by Michael and Chelsey Crandall starring Michael Dickson. Ocypode Productions presents a profile of University of Florida Graduate Student Michael Dickson. This short documentary takes a look at Michael’s work, both in the field and in the lab, as he conducts scientific research into the ecology and population structure of peppermint shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico. A poster of the Beneath the Waves film festival can be found at the artist’s following link. The team also have a new paper out discussing the impact of film-making and film festivals in disseminating scientific research, complimenting scientific meetings. Their mission is to:
The mission of Beneath the Waves, Inc. and the Beneath the Waves Film Festival is to raise public awareness with regards to ocean conservation and marine science through the use of visual and digital media such as videos. We also seek to promote science communication and scientific literacy by encouraging and inspiring scientists, ocean enthusiasts, and members of the general public to produce, promote and communicate research and conservation through open-access, engaging short films.
References
Staaterman et. al. 2014, Lights, camera, science: The utility and growing popularity of film festivals at scientific meetings, Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 7 Number 1.
The Beneath the Waves Film Festival website
University of Southampton will be running a MOOC – Massive Open Online Course about ocean science. It is called “Exploring our Oceans.” Further details can be found at the course page on the FutureLearn website.
The first astronauts to leave the Earth’s orbit saw our “blue planet” for the first time. But what lies in the half of our world covered by water more than two miles deep? How are our everyday lives connected to the ocean depths, and what challenges and opportunities does this previously hidden realm hold for our future? In this course you will join scientists exploring the ocean from the deepest undersea vents to the chilly waters of the Poles, going deeper, longer, and more often than ever before – and find how what we now know about the ocean depths is as amazing as the unknown that remains. By taking this course, you will see how the deep ocean is no longer out of reach, and join a global debate about the future of our “blue planet”.
via FutureLearn
Here’s more from Jon Copley: