Photo courtesy of Jim Denny Publish by: Anne Wiley - May 24,
2013 Most people have never heard of the Hawaiian petrel, an
endangered, crow-sized seabird that spends the majority of its
life searching for food over the North Pacific Ocean.
Nevertheless, this bird is no stranger to human influence, and
it has a stern lesson to teach us about the history of the open
ocean. When it comes to what marine predators can find to eat,
humans are changing things, and fast. My colleagues and I have
spent a number of years studying the history of this amazing
seafarer. We’ve come to view it as a sort of indicator of food
web history in the oceanic zone of the North... Tags: Food web
Bruce Duncan, USEPA Publish by: Sean Sheldrake - May 8, 2013 As
a research diver for the US Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), one of my jobs is to make sure that people and companies
working in the fish industry don’t dump too much waste in the
ocean. On my first dive at an underwater waste site, my old salt
of a dive partner hinted, “you