WaterNotes

More from the Mission Blue Voyage, this time with Brian Skerry’s unique perspective after years of underwater photo journalism. He shows us a “cascade of death” in bycatch, highlights the shark finning industry, and marine debris. Above all, I’m enchanted with his photos of my beloved “urban” right whales.

Peter Tyack of Woods Hole took the TED Mission Blue folks through a spectacular view of the acoustics of whales and dolphins in his talk during the voyage. It was recently posted to TED.com and it may be my new favorite TED talk ever!  I am floored by the graphic representations of sound waves produced [...]

Jeremy Jackson covers some of the most pressing issues in marine habitat conservation – not just coral reefs – and I especially like his thoughts on biological pollution.   This is definitely one TED talk worth listening too all the way to the very end, where he offers up some food for thought on our [...]

Bioluminescence is old hat, right? TED’s latest talk from the Mission Blue Voyage featuring Edith Widder’s astounding presentation on bioluminescent animals may have you considering otherwise. Bioluminescence has evolved independently perhaps some 40-50 times? Eighty to ninety percent of life in the oceans has some capacity to produce their own light? Bioluminescent signatures can allow [...]

TED had such a positive response to Dan Barber’s talk on sustainable seafood when it released to the website that they’ve followed it up with a lovely question and answer session over on their ‘blog.  Check it out, lots of good bits to ruminate over and consider for our food future.  (Yes, that was a [...]

It was well over a year ago that I first heard Dan Barber, an immense figure in the foodie and chef sustainability circles, expound the virtues of foie gras “with integrity”. At this year’s TED he spoke on a topic even closer to home – sustainable seafood – and a particular fish that he claims [...]