February 2010
2 posts
Gardening with water and a few fish →
saltandfat:
Interesting writeup in the New York Times about “aquaponics”, a gardening technique that combines hydroponic gardening and fish cultivation. Wastewater from the fish fertilize the plants, which are grown in water tanks, not dirt. I love the idea.
Pretty cool write up on using aquariums to farm different vegetables. Pretty cool if you ask me, plus you get an extra pond with fish to...
Well.
I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know much about this, but my professor from my world environmental policy class sent this article out today:
UN climate chief quits, leaves talks hanging
I don’t think that this is a good thing, unless we can get someone else who fosters talks about environmental change just as well as he did, which is unlikely. Who knows though? I mean, maybe we...
November 2009
2 posts
Elephant Seals fall like leaves
“The data, published in Biology Letters, showed that during certain dives, after the seals swam to a depth of about 500 feet, they leveled off, turned over on their backs and coasted slowly down, rolling and yawing slightly as they descended. This slow phase lasted on average about 10 minutes.
Dr. Mitani said the seals occasionally even struck bottom without any apparent reaction — an...
October 2009
3 posts
New York Time's Science Podcast 10/27/2009
This week’s Podcast from the New York Times can be found on this page. Listen to it if you love me like science.
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Currents and Vortex
I find this article really fascinating. The fact that the ocean isn’t constantly sucking the water out of the bay was new information to me. I had always thought that once you get a bit off shore, you’re pretty much done if your floating and you’ll be out to sea in no time.
Turns out that’s not true. Who knew?
Thoughts?
Overexploitation in California's Intertidal
Having worked on this really obnoxious case study for nearly 2 months now, a major theme emerged in all the things that I had been reading: California’s Intertidal is not monitored closely enough for policy to actually be enacted.
All over the coast despite regulation preventing the collection of many different species, sizes of many different gastropods have been decreasing (among these...