Marine Biology News

Nature engineered beaches to shape shift with the wind and waves. Higgins, Broward County's beach erosion administrator, does what he can to keep an undulating strand from wiggling out from beneath the hotels, condo towers, parks and mansions.

It's called Pennies for Penguins, and Shannon Pugliese won't be satisfied until she's collected at least one cent for each of the estimated 150,000 African penguins still in existence.

In the fall, the staff of Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services' Center for Environmental Education will take a group of middle-school students on a four-day trip to Key Largo, Fla., to study marine biology and learn more about the marine ecosystem.

Few things are more important to humans than living in a clean environment. The great outdoors is a source of recreation and inspiration, and it belongs to all of us.

NO CLOWNING AROUND: A research team in Taitung County has learned how to breed clownfish and hopes to give the technology to 10 selected breeders next year By Lilian Wu CNA Sunday, Jun 28, 2009, Page 2 A clownfish bred in captivity by the Eastern Marine Biology Research Center of the Fisheries Research Institute swims in a tank on June 2. PHOTO: ...

The Mariana Islands Nature Alliance has just committed a $2,000 donation for the upcoming Eco-Camp Project on Tinian on July 5-12. MINA chairperson Fran Castro will turn over the donation this Friday to camp coordinator Kimberly Vaillencourt and scuba diving instructor Mike Tripp at the MINA office near the Naked Fish Bar on Beach Road.

Guam students are getting the opportunity to name the second deepest spot in the Marianas Trench.

Kids age 10-17 who love the outdoors and are interested in exploring what lies beneath the waves can spend six days living and learning on Virginiaa s Eastern Shore.

Great white shark cruises underwater in search of prey. Credit: Neil Hammerschlag / www.neil4sharks.org A great white shark successfully lunges for and captures a juvenile fur seal in False Bay, South Africa.

Profile Archives Blogroll The Open Laboratory 2009 - the submissions so far Category: OpenLab09 Posted on: June 21, 2009 9:43 PM, by Coturnix Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date.

THEY CALL it the Greatest Shoal on Earth, the ocean counterpart of the annual wildebeest migration across the Mara and Grumeti Rivers on Tanzania's Serengeti plains.

Main Category: Neurology / Neuroscience Also Included In: Alzheimer's / Dementia The National Resource for Aplysia at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science has had its resources grant with the National Institute for Health extended for an additional five years.

It was in their eyes. The excitement, the pride and a little sadness reflected in the faces of Cowell College's class of 2009 as they watched their college careers officially come to an end on Saturday.

We hardly noticed him. Here in the midst of gentle tides, strolling along a pebble-strewn beach, we were carefree.

THE Western Pacific Fishery Management Council is hosting summer classes for high school students interested in marine biology.

What's to be done with California's offshore oil rigs once they have outlived their usefulness? One option: Remove them entirely from the ocean floor and restore the marine environment to its original state, as is California's current policy.

Students at Montessori Hale O Keiki will be scoping Maui's beaches and diving into the ocean as they spend a new, five-year $250,000 grant.

KOCHI: Indiaa s second Arctic expedition to study climate change and bacterial life, coordinated by the Goabased National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research , has a Kochi connection.

Nancy Treneman, science teacher at Gold Beach High School, was born in Harlington, Texas, and has lived in Gold Beach since 2002 and taught at the high school for six years.

IT is said that the environment that one lives in shapes one's personality. This notion is true for Khor Hui Min, an active member of environmental organisations and an avid volunteer.