2011 SPG Members Favorite List: Best Family Experience
For those of you thinking about bringing your entire family to MACNA 2013, have no fear. The Westin Diplomat has kids activities throughout the day, which will give them something fun and exciting to do while you are geeking out with your fellow reefkeepers:
Reserved just for kids ages 4 – 12, our fun and activity filled programming designed to entertain and delight our smaller guests.
Four-eyed Butterflyfish (Chaetodon capistratus). Photo by Brian Gratwicke / Flickr.
Published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal B, researchers Kelley, Fitzpatrick, and others tested this question in their paper “Spots and stripes: ecology and colour pattern evolution in butterflyfishes.”
Tracks of fluorescent beads reveal the complex cilia-driven flow between Pocillopora damicornis coral polyps. Each polyp is approximately 1 millimeter in diameter. Photo by Stocker Group, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT.
Pieces of the Ocean app displays information about fish at your local fish store.
Have you ever wandered into the local fish store and wanted to know more information about a fish that is on display?
Jeffrey Eigenbrode from Ecoxotic posing at the Coral Restoration Foundation dive site.
The dive event is sponsored by Ecoxotic, Two Little Fishies (and Advanced Aquarist sponsor), and Piscine Energetics Inc.
Photo by jayhem / Flickr.
At its height in 2006, Jamaica reported up to 260 lionfish per hectare – a situation that was significantly threatening the animals which lionfish feed on: shrimp, smaller fish, crabs, and other crustaceans.
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Idaho Aquarium Director and Owner Ammon Covino and Aquarium Director Christopher Conk are accused of purchasing $6,300 worth of federally protected Florida sharks and rays, and if convicted could face fines upwards of one million dollars and spend 20 years in jail.
a Acanthaster planci outbreak on the Great Barrier Reef; b A. planci cut into two equal halves; c after 7 weeks, both halves (only one pictured, one arm lost) were almost entirely healed; d A.
Close-up fish grazing on coral reefs
Using underwater video cameras to record fish feeding on South Pacific coral reefs, scientists have found that herbivorous fish can be picky eaters – a trait that could spell trouble for endangered reef systems.
The Oceanwing dive suit, as modeled by Pierre Frolla.
As reported by LaughingSquid, Oceanwings are a wetsuit inspired by skydiving wingsuits and reportedly gives the wearer the feeling of flying underwater.