Science and the Media, or How Science Advanced at AAAS 2011: Part I
Most science conferences are like little in-group parties, where people who know each other’s work intimately get together to discuss their latest results, and query each other about what to do next....
View ArticleClear and Present Danger: Overwhelming Ourselves into Apathy
After covering a AAAS session on science and the media in my blog post last week, I’d planned to focus on another titled “Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems.”...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday
Subarctic sunflower stars, Prince William Sound in Alaska.Photo: NaGISA - Casey Debenham, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Welcome to the inaugural post of a new feature here at Brave Blue Words:...
View ArticleBlooming Spring Comes to the Sea
Spring has sprung. Daffodils are blooming, birds are building nests and my kids are putting away the winter PJs. (I put a stop to that). I know, with colder temperatures threatening much of the...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
We’re Going Down! Happy Wednesday! For this week’s wonderful, waterful post, we’ll dive to the deepest realms of the ocean to check out the amazing, bizarre, and sometimes downright creepy-looking...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: the Ways of Whales
Whales are among the largest and most magnificent creatures to ever live on Earth. They are completely adapted to one environment, but wholly dependent upon another for their very life’s breath. This...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: the Language of Clouds
Today’s waterful blog post celebrates not the water in oceans or streams, but that which hangs out in the sky: clouds. Yes, of course you knew that clouds were masses of water droplets (or ice...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: Ocean Heroes and Stylish Bloggers
This weekend the Blue Frontier Campaign and its partners will convene the Blue Vision Summit. Hundreds of ocean activists from all over the country will descend on Washington, DC to learn about ocean...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: Living on the Edge
…all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string...
View ArticleWonderful Waterful Wednesday: James Cameron and Enric Sala Named National...
Welcome to Wonderful Waterful Wednesday, a weekly post at Danielle Meitiv’s Barefoot Blog that explores everything fabulous and fascinating about the oceans and waterways that cover our Blue Planet....
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