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PISCO PI Mark Carr interviewed for KQED Radio (MPA)
PISCO PI Steve Palumbi talks for TED
PISCO Principal Investigator Dr. Stephen Palumbi has been invited to talk for the TED non-profit organisation.
Synopsis
There's a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market. His work points a way forward for saving the oceans' health -- and humanity's.
PNAS Marine Reserves Special Edition
Monitoring MPAs by SCUBA in waters off Central California
PISCO Comments to Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (Feb)
On June 12, 2009, President Obama sent a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and federal agencies establishing an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (IOPTF), led by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The Task Force is charged with developing a recommendation for a national policy that ensures protection, maintenance, and restoration of oceans, our coasts and the Great Lakes.
Can sealife cope with increasing ocean acidification?
PISCO Hypoxic Research highlighted by NSF
Rapid Effects of Marine Reserves via Larval Dispersal
PISCO PI Pete Raimondi is co-author on a recently published study validating one of the principle concepts behind the use of marine protected areas. Using marine reserves, (marine protected areas that are assigned the highest level of protection, prohibiting all forms of fishing and resource extraction) Raimondi tested the theory that marine reserves can benefit fisheries via spillover of adults and enhanced larval dispersal from protected sites.
The Causes and Consequences of Movement of Temperate Reef Fishes
For my dissertation, I investigated the movement patterns, their causes and consequences, of adult reef fishes on shallow temperate rocky reefs in the eastern Pacific. Most reef fishes exhibit two fundamentally different forms of movement throughout their lifetime: first the dispersal of larvae and later the movement of adults in the benthic environment. Because of the great potential for larval dispersal that characterizes the majority of marine species, this life history pattern has lead to a paradigm of open populations (i.e.