Shipping traffic affects whales
GoShoals | 10:45 am | February 26, 2010 | News
…Increasingly, the oceans are being polluted by shipping traffic noise, especially up and down the U.S. eastern and western seaboards. The cacophony interferes with the ability of whales and other sea animals to hear each other; they rely on quiet waters to communicate many miles apart… Read More!
Wind in the News
GoShoals | 10:21 am | | News
Tom Hawley of the National Weather Service said a number of communities in southern Maine topped 60 mph for wind gusts, and a 91 mph gust was recorded at the Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire’s coast… Read More!
Hybrid Gulls!
GoShoals | 10:30 pm | January 6, 2010 | News
From Julie Ellis’ Gulls of Appledore blog:
Very exciting news for all you larophiles out there! As many of you know, a Lesser Black-backed Gull has been nesting on Appledore Island and has paired up with a Herring Gull for the last three years. [see the "Lesser Black-backed Gull" tab for details] On December 13, 2009 Blair Nikula observed an unusual second year gull at Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, MA. He thought it looked like a hybrid LBBG x HERG and took several photos of it.
Photo by Blair Nikula.
Shoals course sets Cornell senior on a path to study parasites
GoShoals | 2:41 pm | December 17, 2009 | News
Lauren Quevillon, a senior Biology major currently “consumed by tests,” vividly remembers the reason she decided to pursue science: Richard Preston’s book The Hot Zone. “I fell in love with science then and there,” she recalled.
During her freshman year at Cornell, Quevillon learned about the Biodiversity & Biology of Marine Invertebrates course taught at the Shoals Marine Laboratory (SML), an affiliate of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences… Read More!
Attention all Earth and Environmental Science Students
GoShoals | 10:17 pm | September 9, 2009 | News
We are recruiting participants for next spring semester’s Sustainable Earth and Environmental Systems (SEES) Semester in Hawaii Program offered by Cornell University. This will be seventh year of the program, which was designed to serve as a capstone experience for our Earth and environmental science majors at Cornell. We still have a couple of slots available for students from other universities. To reserve your spot in the program, please submit the attached application form (with essay) and a deposit check for $100 (payable to Cornell University) to Carolyn Spohn at 2124 Snee Hall, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 by September 15, 2009. Letters of recommendation are due on October 1, 2009. The $100 deposit check will not be cashed and will be refundable until October 1, 2009. FYI, last year’s program enrolled 15 students, with 11 from Cornell and 4 from other universities. For this year, we will certainly not take more than 15 students. For further information, contact me at chg2@cornell.edu.
Aloha nui,
Chuck Greene
Shoals Green Initiatives
GoShoals | 9:16 pm | August 24, 2009 | News
APPLEDORE ISLAND, Maine — So here’s the deal. The Shoals Marine Laboratory — a first-class summer marine sciences program run by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire — is on an island, miles away from the nearest energy source…
…So how do you supply energy for all these needs? Well, if you think mega-generators, not so long ago you would have been right. But the challenge and passion of Shoals Marine Lab operation director Ross Hansen is to “make us as efficient as I possibly can — because it will only make us stronger.”
Read the full story from NH seacoast online…
Photo by Jason Koski
Science Writing
GoShoals | 6:40 pm | August 20, 2009 | Announcements,News
Carl Zimmer recently posted (8/12/09) on his blog:
The students are now pounding out stories late into the night, and there’s more in store: the history of New England recorded in shells and bones, the migration of birds from equator to Arctic, and the three-dimensional X-ray animation of bodies in motion. By Sunday, they’ll have written up their final stories, which they will be publishing here. And then we can enjoy the view from the classroom in peace.
I invite all of you to now view the stories of our newly graduated science writers at: http://scienceonshoals.blogspot.com/
Marine Approach to Introductory Biology Student Videos
workinginterns | 1:31 pm | August 5, 2009 | News
Enjoy these creative and informative videos made by students from the Marine Approach to Introductory Biology class!
From Olivia, Gaby, and Robyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KLAaflITBY
From Alex, Janvier, and Kevin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0squuCGPV0
From Dani, Brit, and Nadia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjWOphQxwCY
From Sara and Olivia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjM3nXcvEf4
From Nadi and Alexis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf9yQkU0c7U
Island Archeology
GoShoals | 10:30 am | July 9, 2009 | News
It’s official. Native Americans did inhabit the rocky Isles of Shoals six miles off the Maine and New Hampshire coast. Historians have long assumed that Indians visited and hunted there, but without scientific evidence, no one could say for sure. Read the whole article from SeacoastNH or learn more about the SML Island Archaeology course.
Photos from Mitch Walters
GoShoals | 12:32 pm | July 2, 2009 | News,Photos
Mitch Walters from Field Ornithology 2009 sent us links to some beautiful photos he took at SML this spring – here’s a few or you can check out his flickr or his slideshow at national geographic!
