MARINA ZURKOW
Spineless, Juli Berwald book “Jellyfish Blooms: advances and challenges” link As jellyfish interactions with humans increase in coastal waters, there is an urgent need to provide science-based management strategies to mitigate the negative socioeconomic impacts of jellyfish blooms and to exploit potential benefits of their ecosystem services. This Theme Section presents the latest advances in…
To kick the jellies off, I found on the NSF site a great primer on jellyfish: Gulf of Mexico THE BIGGEST DEAD ZONE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE The white sands and sparkling emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico’s beaches belie a dirty little (open) secret: a huge Dead Zone that is devoid of almost…
New year, new thread, I’m on sabbatical from ITP, and starting almost 3 months of deep research out of town – in the Gulf of Mexico, and in Minneapolis for a new umbrella project called Making the Best of It. Here’s a nano description: Making the Best of It is the umbrella concept for a series of regionally site-specific…
Animals that eat jellyfish also eat plastic bags Animals that eat plankton or fish eggs also eat plastic pellets Animals that eat fish also eat plastic. MSNBC posted a story on April 9, about leatherback turtles’ diet of plastic bags. A new study looked at necropsy reports of more than 400 leatherbacks that have died…
It’s spring break the oceans over. Australia’s beaches regularly host many types of toxic gelatinous animals, including the notorious Portuguese Man-of-War and Chironex fleckeri, a type of box jellyfish that is the world’s most venomous animal; a Chironex can kill a person in under three minutes. In addition, some species of potentially deadly box jellyfish…
Enter the Jellyfish Fantasy Hall at Enoshima Aquarium south of Tokyo and you will find yourself surrounded by dazzling swarms of gently pulsating creatures… Jellyfish, which have inhabited the world’s oceans in one form or another for over one billion years, come in a dizzying array of shapes, sizes and colors. – from Pink Tentacle…