Cephalopodcast

Welcome back to the cephaloblog. This week I’ll be restarting this thing with a trip to the National Marine Educators Association annual conference in Savannah, GA. There I will be giving a presentation on ocean blogging with Rick MacPherson from Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Live and Sunsets. More details to follow.

I have an avatar in Second Life called Calamari Ricardo. He wandered into the lair of Grendel’s Children the other day and came across a new undersea option for avatars (see below).

Randy Olson cheekily suggested that the next Science Blogging Conference be conducted in Second Life. If so, maybe we could hold it on the newly expanded NOAA sim and all the ocean bloggers could go dressed up as Vent Nymphs.

Vent Nymphs
MiniHUD controls the black smoker effect & sound, and includes a unique skin and sculpted tubeworm growths! Both genders included. Created by Flea Bussy.

See also:

• NOAA in Secondlife via Hack’s Haven
• The Abyss of Secondlife

I’ll be headed up to where it’s colder this weekend for the NC Science Blogging Conference. I will be participating in one panel discussion during the conference, Real-time blogging in the marine sciences from 9:50-11:00 a.m. (ET).

Moderated by Kevin Zelnio of The Other 95%, Peter Etnoyer of Deep Sea News, Karen James of the Beagle Project, Rick Mac Pherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets and Jason Robertshaw of the Cephalopodcast.

Our discussion will be initially be focused on the following:
- Using blogs as a tool in Science, Conservation and Marine Education
- Blogs as filters of novel research and synthesizers of concepts
- Communicating Marine Science to the public via blogs (including podcasting and video blogs) to increasing public awareness of Ocean Science and related issues (i.e. who reads marine biology blogs and why).
- Blogging from the field as a method to communicate the scientific method, how research is done and what its like to be a scientist
- The multifaceted constraints of blogging in the field and to what extent blogging does or does not represent the organization you work for.

This is in an unconference format, so everyone who attends the event is encouraged to be an active participant in all of the sessions and discussions.

Also, depending on the bandwidth capabilites available, I will attempt to stream the presentation.

• My conference updates will be available at the Offical Cephalopodcast NC Science Blogging Conference page
• Any streaming will take place at the Cephalopodcast ustream.tv channel
• If ustream fails, I might try Talkshoe

Tomorrow I will be participating in the second cephalopod conference organized by the TONMO.com community, TONMOCON II.

Conference-goers will enjoy a full day of back-to-back presentations and panel discussions on various subjects pertaining to cephalopods, including octopus and cuttlefish care, cephalopods in art, cephalopod study in marine biology, and much more. Dr. Steve O’Shea is the featured speaker, covering “Giant Squids, Whales, Sex and Conservation.”

There is the possibility of a live webcast/Skypecast/Talkshoecast of the event. Or at the very least, audio recordings of the sessions will be made and posted. More details and the agenda are available here.

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity is pleased to announce that 22 May 2007 is International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD). The focus for this year’s “celebration” is climate change.

I will be attending the FMSEA 2007 Annual Conference this week in Naples. My presentation notes and updates will be posted here. Not sure about connectivity, but I will update as much as possible.

This episode was recorded live at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY as part of the National Marine Educators Association’s 2006 annual conference. For shownotes and additional versions of this podcast, visit the official Cephalopodcast @ NMEA2006 webpage.

 

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New opportunities for education and outreach through easy-access Internet technology

Monday, July 17, 2006
11:15am, Room H 513

Podcasting offers schools, zoos, museums and research centers a new opportunity to create and distribute timely information to the public. Through the online distribution of syndicated audio and video content it is possible to create readily updated audio tours of aquarium exhibits, nature trails, public programs and more. Learn how to harness this new technology through a demonstration of the ever increasing and easy to use technology available for creating and distributing online video and audio content.

Thanks to everyone who attended the session. I’ll be updating this page with audio from the presentation. Below is the Keynote presentation.

• The Keynote presentation (=PowerPoint) [PDF, 2.7MB]
• The Official Cephalopodcast.com @ NMEA webpage. Check here for further updates from the conference.