RFID “chip” are tiny electronic devices that communicate information to an electronic reader through the use of radio waves.

These new products will add to their growing LED product line.

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T-8 and T-5 LED Tubes

Orphek T8 tubes.

Advanced Aquarist first blogged about Orphek’s T-8 LED tubes on May 22. 

For those of you that are using the Reefkeeper Elite and Reefkeeper Lite controllers, you will want to update to the latest firmware version.  According to the release announcement the upgrade takes care of a number of software bugs that users have reported and it also adds new functionality to the controllers.

Octopus hatchlings at the Steinhart Aquarium

Mothers day reminds us of the incredible job of mothering that visitors to the Steinhart Aquarium were treated to earlier this year: 1000’s of hatching Octopus ‘vulgaris’.

♪♫ “…Shook me all night long
Yeah you shook me all night long…” ♪♫

is playing on the underwater speakers as divers in the shark cage stare out into the inky blue waiting.

A coral is about to die.  It has spent well over a week at 6°C above normal water temperatures and it is growing weaker by the hour.  The symbiotic zooxanthellae algae has already been expelled and it cannot take much more of the heat. 

Every Thursday evening throughout the year the UH Sea Grant Hanauma Bay Education Program brings scientists and environmental leaders to share their work with the community in Hawai‘i.

The talks, which are always free to the public, share cutting edge research on a wide range of topics important to Hawai‘i and beyond.

MACNA 2011 in Des Moines, Iowa will be one of the largest marine hobby events ever held. Join us for this spectacular event! Des Moines has been voted the best city to host a trade show with easy access from a large section of the country and very affordable prices.

The lessons were part of a larger initiative to combat bullying in the classroom.

“If we don’t have a safe, nurturing class environment, it’s going to be hard to learn,” she said.