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• Public Opinion: Virginia aquarium opens its new Restless Planet renovation

  
  Big Movie Zone Blog — Authority: 140
  Chambergsburg Public Opinion reports: If you’ve been good all year, you may be up for a short trip down the shore. Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center will open its new Restless Planet renovation on Saturday. The renovation cost $25 million and opened 12,000 square feet of exhibits and aquariums. A ...
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• Coral ID from AIMS will be published online next year for free

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 144
  Coral ID is the name of a compact disc which is basically the digital edition of the ultimate guide to stony coral identification from JEN Veron, Corals of the World. Covering over nearly a thousand coral species with 2500 color photographs, Coral ID will soon fill the role that the online Coral Search resource from ...
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• Tentacled Transparent Sea Cucumbers!!!! Oh My!

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 615
  The Census of Marine Life’s latest report is a doozy. It includes ~5,600 new species in addition to the 230,000 already recorded. Scientists hope to increase the figure by thousands before the census is done in October 2010. In the tally, researchers have cataloged 17,650 species below a depth of 656 feet (where ...
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• Stunning image of sediment plumes in Gulf of Mexico

  
  Clastic Detritus — Authority: 105
  I was alerted to this image from a reader and also saw it linked to on geology.com/news and just had to share it. Absolutely beautiful patterns of sediment plumes mixing with each other and surrunding water in the Gulf of Mexico from NASA’s Earth Observatory website. The image was taken last week a few hours after ...
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• About That Garbage Patch…

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 615
  Miriam Goldstein –chief scientist of SEAPLEX –is leading the voyage to understand the the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre to attempt to understand the effects it may have on marine life. She has a new blog post up entitled ‘ “Millions, billions, trillions”…of scientific errors in the NYT ...
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• Science Teachers off to Antarctica

  
  REALscience — Authority: 462
  Gary Wesche is counting the days. It’s down to 14 now before he heads to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition. KMBC’s Bev Chapman reports from St. Regis Catholic School in Kansas City. Wesche’s expedition to study ice sheets is organized by PolarTREC where you can follow Gary’s adventure . Other ...
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• Marine scientists get funding to study Dead Zone

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 531
  Whether a large area of low oxygen water called the "dead zone" in the northern Gulf of Mexico could cause declines in environmentally and economically important fish populations is the subject of a new study by University of Texas at Austin marine scientist Peter Thomas.
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• Checking Back In With SEAPLEX

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 615
  The SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) voyage to the island of garbage in the North Pacific Gyre continues… Watch marine mammal specialist Josh Jones deploy his acoustic array to study dolphins and whales: More videos from the expedition are available at Dive Into Your ...
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• Ocean Beauty

  
  The Intersection — Authority: 615
  More on the spectacular leafy sea dragon and other unusual critters at HuffPo …
  4 weeks ago

• Previously unknown fault caused earthquake swarm off Oregon’s coast

  
  Mover Mike — Authority: 140
  Joe Rojas-Burke of The Oregonian has a story about that swarm of quakes back in March 140 miles off the coast from Newport, Oregon. He writes, This swarm erupted in a steady stream as if emanating from a hot spot of rising magma from beneath the crust. “That’s normally what we see in volcanic and ...
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• Even reef fish like a good massage

  
  Reef Builders -The Reef Aquarium Blog — Authority: 144
  Nothing beats a good spa treatment to erase the tension of a tough week at work—the manicure, pedicure, massage…the works. Reef fishes (and not just the females) know how to benefit from a little pampering at stations manned by cleaner wrasses—the wrasses set up shop in a particular spot on the reef (or your ...
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