Why are all the other issues being ignored by these faux conservation experts? Oh, facts, too, those darn things continue to be pesky.Â
Chris Maupin
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“We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat…”
Two fisherman working near Guaymas in the Sea of Cortez got the surprise of a lifetime when their nets came up with a Great White Shark nearly 20 feet in length. Once thought to be a rarity in the Sea of Cortez, according to Dr. Chris Lowe of the  CSULB Sharklab, it...
Micro Plastic Pollution and Marine Life
A new report in the journal Environmental Science and Technology has reached a conclusion that astronomical quantities of plastic exist in our oceans. How is this news you might ask? Well, because it is in the form of micro plastic particles. These particles are...
Coral Naming Continued: Confer
I received a lot of feedback from my coral naming rant, some positive, but much of it was aggressively negative. So, I decided the best course of action would be a follow up that gives an example and clarifies some things. One of the misunderstandings I encountered...
Coral Naming: A Rant and a Plea
I am a third generation orchid enthusiast. My great grandfather established one of the earliest commercial orchid greenhouses in the United States. At that time, large blooming Cattleya species formed the basis of corsages for decades in the early twentieth century....
Olasana Lagoon: Road to Recovery?
On February 20th, my odd little high energy nano tank project was ravaged by a mysterious green water bloom. You can read all about it HERE. A mere ten days later, I made this video. You can see the toll the green water bloom took. I lost one colony of Acropora, 3 or...
The Demise of the Pacific Elkhorn
In 2004, Dean Jacobson from the College of the Marshall Islands first laid eyes on a unique Pacific Acropora species that resembled the Atlantic elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, so closely that those of us passionate about elkhorn coral (and there are a lot of...
Olasana Lagoon: Small Tank, Big Problems and a Mystery.
When I started this tank and got back into the hobby after a long hiatus, I told you, dear reader, that I would share failures as well as successes. As a scientist I have a deep seated sense of honesty and an extremely loud conscience when it comes to sharing failure....
Coral Atoll Nation Considers Evacuation
Kiribati, a small nation of atolls in the Line Islands, south of Hawai'i on the Equator and near the International Dateline, has revealed last week that it is considering the logistics involved in moving the entire nation's population of 103,000 people to Fiji. Why...
Hubble Telescope: Waterworld Really Exists!
Earlier this week, NASA revealed that the Hubble Telescope has discovered an entirely new class of planet: a true Waterworld. By examining how light from a star passes through the atmosphere of the planet, dubbed GJ1214b, researchers were able to estimate that the...