Jan 1, 2017
That borderline feel when 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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seen from India
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That borderline feel when 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
when people ask you what you want to do after graduating and you can barely see yourself being alive this summer
Me: I dont have any friends, Im so lonely
Also me: *pushes everyone away, stays home all day*
Me: I dont have any friends, Im so lonely
Kait Fraser of Scripps Ocean Institute sounds off on dolphins in the Gulf
We caught up with Kait at the GOMRI 2016 conference in Tampa, Fl, where she presented her findings on the sounds of whales, dolphins, ships and seismic crews in the Gulf of Mexico. The Scripps Ocean Institute's research is the first to use passive acoustic monitoring in the Gulf and, while Kait and colleagues are hearing more dolphins, Sperm Whales, Pan Tropical Dolphins, Russo's dolphins, than have ever been seen from ships, there are some sounds that endanger the dolphins hearing.
"The Noise Levels we've seen in the Gulf of Mexico are out of control, they are the highest we've seen anywhere in the world"
Kait discusses the day to day challenges of dolphin research in the Gulf, the potential impact of the dead zone on dolphins and whales and the perplexing possibilities for dolphin restoration after the BP disaster.
Dr Teri Knowles lectures the NAS RESTORE group and interested parties on causes of cetacean mortality in the Gulf. BP killed about half the dolphins of the mississippi river delta, and more than a third of the dolphins in Barataria. Birthing success dropped to one in eight from a baseline of roughly 7 in 8. It is estimated that it will take the Northern Gulf Dolphin populations 40 years to recover, and perhaps longer, depending on prey availability and changes to habitat. The good news is that population can recover, but dolphins and other cetaceans that we know less well must be monitored with NAS funds for a very long time.
Sharron Stewart, in Houston, TX reflects on government repression of witnessing the disaster unfold on Gulf Beaches in Alabama 'There were so many people on the island and they would not let us get anywhere near the beaches or take pictures. Or take pictures! If you got out of your car, you were followed, if you stayed in the public right of way, you were followed. And they would have confiscated my camera if I had taken a picture. That is so different from my experience of oil spill cleanups in the past when I worked for NOAA. ' 4min http://gulffuture.org
Patty Whitney of Bayou History Center and BISCO tells of when she heard of the BP disaster in the Gulf in 2010 "The Deep Water Horizon is actually a metaphor for coastal Louisiana, we’re dead we just haven’t dropped yet. DWH was like being told you have terminal cancer. It may take awhile, but we're gone." 5min
Howard Page of STEPS Coalition tells his story of the Rev Calvin Johnson's fight to preserve his community and Mississippi wetlands "I've stepped back as far as I can, I can't step back anymore. I'm going to start coming forward." -Rev Calvin Johnson 5:33minhttp://gulffuture.org
