Two film contests out there for all you new media science interpreter types:
The SB FLIX CONTEST is an open call now through March 1st for creative, funny, and otherwise crazy cool videos about the ocean or the environment/Shifting Baselines.
The Phylm Prize is an award aimed at spurring interest in physics and the educational use of new media. To be considered, entries must be posted as video responses to this YouTube posting.
Available now from the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum in Sanibel, FL, in VHS format ($19.95) or DVD ($22.00). Quicktime snippets on their website.
Mollusks In Action is a nature video that features living mollusks found on the beaches and tidal pools of Sanibel Island, Florida. It was filmed and produced by Shell Museum education docent Joyce Matthys. The 30-minute video covers, in an easy-to-understand approach, different aspects of molluscan biology such as feeding, locomotion, anatomy, defense strategies, and reproduction.
We’ve witnessed the appearance of large cephalopods in our parking lots before. Now it appears other sea creatures are coming ashore to take our spaces.
Sharkfin soup: it’s like a cannibal who kills people only to eat their fingernails.
![Download a White Shark Photo. Courtesy of MBA (c) 2006 [200x150, 4K]](http://www.cephalopodcast.com/img/pic/pic_060901a.jpg "Download a White Shark Photo. Courtesy of MBA (c) 2006")
Here’s some good news for a captive shark:
The young male white shark that has been part of our Outer Bay exhibit since September is back in the wild.
Our husbandry team tagged and released him shortly after sunrise today (Tuesday, January 16). It marks the second time in two years that we’ve exhibited a white shark and then returned it safely back
to the wild.
He was released from a boat in Monterey Bay after our staff fitted him with an electronic data tag that will track his movements for the next 90 days. If all goes as planned, on April 16, we’ll get information documenting where the shark traveled, how deep he dove and the water temperatures he favored. The data will be relayed to scientists via satellite when the tag pops free.
We released him because he’d grown considerably–from an initial length of 5-foot-8 and 103 pounds when he arrived on August 31, 2006 to his current size of 6-foot-5 and 171 pounds. He was healthy and feeding at the time of release, but was large enough that to delay much longer could have posed more risks for both the shark and our staff during the move. We expect he’ll do well after release, just as our first white shark did.
My wife and I just got back from our first trip to the Georgia Aquarium. I was planning on editing the video this weekend to post here. Then comes this news. Sad.
The first necropsy on a whale shark in the United States was performed Friday at the Georgia Aquarium following the animal’s sudden death Thursday night. The 22-foot whale shark, Ralph, was one of the first two whale sharks to be held in captivity in North America.
The GAq also recently had a sick beluga whale that died.
(via Dad)
There are a couple of dolphins stories coming through our feeds today:
(via Divester)
The UN Convention on Migratory Species, together with its specialized agreements on dolphin conservation ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society WDCS have declared 2007 the Year of the Dolphin. [More]
(via Dolphin Pod)
Act for Dolphins is a campaign led by marine scientists, The Ocean Project, The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) to end the slaughter of thousands of wild dolphins in the annual Japanese drive hunts. [More]
(via Divester)
Ukrainian emergency workers prevented a pod of dolphins from drowning an intoxicated man in the Black Sea, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. [More]
The Public Broadcasting Service wants U.S. viewers to choose a new science series:
Throughout January, PBS will broadcast three new science programs. Only one program will become a regular science series on PBS. We want you to help us decide. Watch the programs on your PBS station or, beginning January 1st, visit the companion sites below to watch each pilot show. Then tell us what you think!
Personally, I vote for all three 8). What do you think?
(Photo credit: clevergrrl and dawgfanjeff)
The Cephalopodcast is heading to the Georgia Aquarium today. We’ve downloaded the companion podcast tour. We’ve loaded the new video camera
with tape and fresh batteries. Look forward to bringing you all a podcast of the experience later this week!
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