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The UHMS is currently calling for abstracts to be presented at this 50th annual scientific meeting.
The deadline is 3 April 2017.
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Before the invention of plastic, ivory was used ornamentally and practically. It was considered a great material by manufacturers.
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Called an Eco Shark Barrier, the $900,000 nylon net acts as a barrier that keeps sharks away from the beach, and beach-goers safe.
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Called the “Advanced Dive Behavior” (ADB) tag, it has allowed researchers to expand their knowledge of whale ecology to areas deep beneath the sea, over thousands of miles of travel, and outline their interaction with their prey.
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Publishing their findings in Conservation Biology, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta of Mexico’s Department of the Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) said, “We are witnessing the end of a species, if the illegal fishing continues.”
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The worst affected area is a 700km stretch of reefs in the GBR's northern region, which lost an average of 67% of its shallow-water corals in the past eight to nine months.
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An island archipelago in the Arctic, Svalbard’s normal annual average temperature was minus 6.7 degrees Celsius (20 F). Previously, the warmest year was minus 1.8 degrees Celsius (29 F), in 2006. However, temperatures have been steadily climbing.
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This sounds simple enough, but not when one considers that the reef - the third largest coral reef in the world - measures nearly 150 miles long and four miles wide. The question of where to place the new corals comes into play.
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A recent study explored attitudes regarding the presence of microplastic particles in cosmetics, and found that while certain groups of people were aware of them, there was widespread surprise about the quantities of microbeads contained, with the
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Kenneth Poss, James B Duke professor of cell biology at Duke University, said that the connection can be formed in as fast as two months.
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An international team found that shallower reefs in Singapore waters rebounded rapidly from a major bleaching episode in 1998, despite experiencing such high levels of sedimentation that underwater visibility was typically less than two metres.
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Well, not exactly “songs”, in the way we would normally interpret the word.
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With just three individuals, there are too few potential breeding pairs to ensure the survival of the species.
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All six candidates are from the USA, with three hailing for California.
Heather Armstrong, Hawaii
- Technical Diving Educator, Explorer, Diving Project Manager
The meeting was first proposed by the National Park Service (NPS), then quickly supported by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Divers Alert Network (DAN), and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS).
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The newly protected wrecks are HMT Arfon,
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