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Hello,
MARINE LIFE NEWS BULLETIN TORPEDO (September 2009)
Issue 156
ISSN 1464-8156
The monthly news bulletin has been sent out to subscribers and should arrive
in subscriber's mail boxes before you receive this message.
If you are a subscriber have not received it, please find a copy of the
bulletin at:
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Torpedo2009Sept.htm
Cheers
Andy Horton.
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I
thought I would alert you to our lecture later this month:
Earthwatch
Lecture: Meeting Marine Needs
Thursday 15th October 2009, 7.00pm – 8.30pm
at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
Speakers Dennis
Sammy, Nature Seekers, & Nienke van Geel, The Hebridean Whale & Dolphin
Trust. Chaired by Nigel Winser.
Human activities and climate change
pose multiple threats to marine species. Hear about Earthwatch’s
research in projects as wide ranging as Trinidad’s
leatherback sea turtles and Hebridean whales and dolphins.
Join us at our October
lecture, Meeting Marine Needs, where the speakers will be Nienke van Geel of
the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, and Dennis Sammy of Nature Seekers.
Costa Rican Sea Turtles Help to save leatherback sea
turtles from extinction at one of the most important remaining nesting
beaches in the world. Places are available on teams from October to
February.
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and Wales
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is Mayfield House, 256 Banbury
Road, Oxford, OX2 7DEEngland.
Jersey Turbot (C.I.) is a family-run business started in 2000 by former deep
sea fisherman Dave Cowburn.
The farm is uniquely located in a former World War II German gun emplacement
and bunker at St Catherine's in the east of the Island . It houses about
6,500 Turbot at any one time, ranging from tiny 50p-sized fish to
four-year-old Turbot weighing several pounds.
http://genuinejersey.com/member%20pages/turbot.htm
There was a brief feature on Countryfile on BBC1 on Sunday evening 24
January 2010.
Hello,
The British Marine Life Study Society web pages are temporarily unavailable.
I expect the problem to be rectified within 24 hours, probably in much less
time.
Cheers
Andy Horton.
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Hello,
After a long struggle with passwords, firewalls and tricky technical bits,
the British Marine Life Study Society web pages are now up and running
again.
Cheers
Andy Horton.
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From: "Andy Horton" <Glaucus@...>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 8:38 PM
To: "GLAUCUS" <Glaucus@...>; "wetthumb"
<wetthumb@...>
Subject: [wetthumb] British Marine Life Study Society web pages
> Hello,
>
> The British Marine Life Study Society web pages are temporarily
> unavailable.
> I expect the problem to be rectified within 24 hours, probably in much
> less
> time.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Andy Horton.
> glaucus@...
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> British Marine Life Study Society (formed 6 June 1990)
> http://www.glaucus.org.uk/
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> Marine Wildlife of the North-east Atlantic Ocean Yahoo Group
> New Group: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Glaucus
>
> New Image Uploading Service:
> http://www.flickr.com/groups/glaucus/
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>
>
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From: "matthew clark" <nacho001@...>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 8:29 PM
To: <glaucus@...>
Subject: Cold water marine aquariums
>
> Hi there
>
> My name is Matt Clark, I follow your web site from time to time due to the
> fact that I used to run a own cold water marine aquraium.
> I have recently had a new addition to my familly, a small terror of a boy.
>
> To the point, I have been forced to dissassemble the aqurarium setup and
> have managed to shift most of the kit, all appart from the cooler I
> bought.
> It is a 700w Teco TA680 refrigeration unit, titanium heat exchanger, it
> cost me £700 when I bought it.
> I am trying to find someone who could make use of this for a similar
> system, it could easilly keep my 500lt system at 15 degrees all year
> round.
>
> If you might know someone who could make use of this I would much
> appreciate you letting them/me know.
> I was looking for around £190 for it.
> The unit is in full working order with the manual.
>
> Thanks very much for you time.
>
> Matthew Clark
>
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For well over a decade, environmental charity Earthwatch
has hosted a series of educational and engaging events which are free to the
public.
I would be grateful if you could help us to promote our
next two events by listing them on your website and also, if appropriate, in
your electronic newsletter.
Promotional text for the lectures is as follows:
Earthwatch Lecture: Farming and sustainable
environments
7.00pm, Wednesday 17 March 2010,
Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR
Speakers: Professor Ken Norris, University of Reading;Dr Mark
Chandler, Earthwatch
Chair: BBC Countryfile
presenter, Julia Bradbury
6.00pm:
Doors open (Cash bar); 7.00pm – 8.30pm: Lecture; 8.30pm - 9.30pm: Second
cash bar.
As the world’s population increases and climate
change forces land use patterns to change,pressures
upon farmers to produce more food on limited agricultural land grows by the
day. Some
believe we will have to grow more food over the next 50 years than we have over
the last 10,000. Yet productive and
sustainable agriculture depends on healthy ecosystems
- fertile soil, plentiful water and flourishing natural
pollinators and pest controllers. Can we reconcile the conflict between
urgently intensifying agriculture and conserving precious ecosystems?
Join
environmental
charity, Earthwatch, as their scientists, Professor
Ken Norris and Dr Mark Chandler, tease apart the complex issues at the heart of
this debate, relating it to their researchon
the sustainability of cocoa farming in Ghana and
coffee production in Costa Rica.
Earthwatch Lecture: Forests: challenged by a changing climate
7.00pm, Thursday 20 May 2010, Royal
Geographical Society, London SW7 2AR
Speakers: Dr Mark Huxham,
Napier University; Dr Glen Reynolds,Royal Society SE Asia Rainforest Research Programme
Chair: to be announced
6.00pm:
Doors open (Cash bar); 7.00pm – 8.30pm: Lecture; 8.30pm - 9.30pm: Second
cash bar.
Almost half of the planet’s
original forests have been severely damagedby illegal logging and
uncontrolled conversion to farmland, compromising their capacity to support
wildlife, maintain soil structure and fertility, protect watersheds, and
provide essential raw materials for local communities. However, if well
managed, forests are extremely resilient, demonstrating an extraordinary
capacity to regenerate. In the face of decades of human exploitation
– and now climate change – how can we restore forests before they
become biological deserts?
Join Earthwatch scientists, Drs
Mark Huxham and Glen Reynolds, as they take you on a journey to mangrove forests
in Kenya and the rainforests of Borneo. They will share with you the results to
date of their pioneering research into the restoration of two very different,
yet similarly challenged, forest ecosystems.
Educator expeditions- Apply for a fully
funded place on specially created Earthwatch educator expeditions this coming
spring and summer.
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Hello,
SEASHORE SAFARIS
Publisher: Graffeg
Review by the City and County of Swansea
Seashore Safaris, a book written by Judith Oakley, (freelance marine
biologist/consultant and Marine Biodiversity Officer at the City and County
of Swansea), is a photographic guide that highlights some of the tiny
animals you can find on the beach if you look in the right places on a rocky
or a sandy shore.
I have now found time to give this new book more than a cursory glance.
I have reviewed (first draft) on the following page:
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/SeasideSafaris.html
This is the book I should have written (and I dare say a few others as well)
and is a much needed introduction to the world of the seashore and the hobby
of rockpooling. It is a photographic guide to most of the common species
encountered which is much appreciated as newcomers and even experienced
rockpoolers will try and match up what they have seen to a visual image (and
photographs work better than line drawings) and this will usually get them
the correct species, (unless there are two very alike species and then you
will need a specialist identification guide like the Collins Guide to the
Seashore).
However, the seashore is a rich and interesting habitat with a myriad of
species and 225 pages of this large pocket guide are comprehensively covered
to suit the enthusiast.
Now why would anybody want to go to Serengeti when we have so much of
interest nearer to home?
RECOMMENDED PURCHASE *****
Cheers
Andy Horton.
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Hi all - I'm delighted to finally find an online resource for the keeping of
coldwater marine aquaria. I've been running a native reef tank for the last 18
months or so and would love to share ideas and tips with others.
I recently started a blog which gives a fairly good idea of what I've been up
to, feel free to have a peek
http://nativemarine.blogspot.com/
Fish & Sharks of the NE Atlantic
New Photographic Gallery on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/marinefish/
Marine fish and sharks of the NE Atlantic, Irish Sea, North Sea, English
Channel, marine lochs of Scotland and Ireland, fjords of Norway, etc.
18 November 2010
More than 200 fish have died at the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth after
storms caused a power failure.
Water began draining from the Atlantic Reef tank when the life support and
back-up systems were knocked out on Tuesday night.
The loss was discovered on Wednesday when aquarium staff arrived for work and
found the tank was nearly empty.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11786104?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tw\
itter
As I have virtually run out of web space, I have posted the first of the photographs on a Blogspot. Guest pictures are welcome and there more to be posted.
If you have any good pictures you are welcome to send them to me to be put on the web pages and the blog.
14 July 2011 Young rockpooler Henry Hyndman discovered a small colony of breeding Cushion Stars, Asterina, in a rockpool on Fair Isle (midway between the Shetland Isles and the Orkney Isles). This was a newsworthy discovery because this is a southern species usually found off the coast of Cornwall and south Wales.
Interesting find Andy on the Asterina. Only goes to show that the warming of the oceans may be having profound effects on the distribution of marine species, though Asterina is in the path of the Gulf-Stream flow so maybe it was always there - just undiscovered till now. Here in Hastings we have small localised rockpool colonies of the Snakelocks anemones which have established themselves over the last few years - this is as far east that it occurs along the Channel as far as I know.
Do you frequent the site The Salty Box? What do you think of it? I know some ex-WetThumbs users such as Mona from Norway who do from time to time. I really miss the WetThumb days. Nothing quite replaces that site that you initiated. Why did it close? Did you think of setting up something similar again, without the commercial interest that Saltybox has. Since Wetthumbs closed I have been successfully growing marine algae using natural sunlight with/without cooling, though I still need some refinements to the system.
Kind Regards
Mike Guye
(Naturalist, Hastings)
From: Andy Horton <Glaucus@...> To: GLAUCUS <Glaucus@...>; wetthumb@...; ECHINODERM-L@... Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 20:30:15 Subject: [wetthumb] Asterina
Hello,
Asterina
14 July 2011 Young rockpooler Henry Hyndman discovered a small colony of breeding Cushion Stars, Asterina, in a rockpool on Fair Isle (midway between the Shetland Isles and the Orkney Isles). This was a newsworthy discovery because this is a southern species usually found off the coast of Cornwall and south Wales.
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