"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What can you say?

Mimic octopus

Remarkable video floating around the biological twittersphere.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Sharks off Bon Secour

Video from Ben Raines from the Mobile Press Register.  Evidence that the oil is forcing baitfish, and their predators, into nearshore waters.

Submerged oil at Bon Secour shoreline

I guess we should have known...

...that it would come to this.

Monday, June 21, 2010

From someone you can trust

Here, David Biello of Yale Environment 360 interview Dr. Tom Shirley from Texas A&M - Corpus Christi regarding the Gulf oil spill.  I know Tom Shirley, having worked with him for a couple of summers when he was at the University of Alaska's fisheries facility in Juneau.  He's as good a biologist as you'll ever hear.  Here's what he has to say about the situation in the Gulf.

And, from an appearance at the National Press Club.

Humboldt squid

From William Gilly, who is currently blogging from the Gulf of California from a research expedition investigating the big squid.