<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Dewey (and all!) - one more sidenote to your ocean topic -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eugenie Clark, a pioneering mid-century oceanographer, was asked a few years ago before her passing, about what she thought the biggest change in the oceans has been - and she simply said “overfishing” - she noted that in the past 50 years, about 50% of ocean life is gone, and she no longer ate seafood.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>See below link for great resource (if you aren’t already aware) and you can click on any guide you wish for any area: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/conservation-and-science/our-programs/seafood-watch" class="">http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/conservation-and-science/our-programs/seafood-watch</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Microplastics p.s. - a few weeks ago in the Wash. Post Health/Science section, this topic! and even when you wash your polartecs & other polyesters, the small strands can add into the water system (found even in Arctic waters). Yeesh! Plus, some facial soaps & other personal products - check the labels esp. if they tout “microabrasion”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tying in to lionfish - I saw that a group in FL is doing “contests” from time to time to see who can spearfish the most… and restaurants are beginning to offer them on their menus :*) Raising awareness!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of my past students now does undersea research for NOAA, and the last time we talked, they were doing population studies in the Gulf to determine the long-term damage to nurseries from the Deepwater Horizon incident. Not good.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In light of oceans, guess who is the invasive species? :*)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kathy Seiler</div><div class="">Blue Ridge Summit</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PATC North Chapter & ATC</div><div class="">PA Envirothon volunteer</div><div class="">Outdoor Educator</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 24, 2017, at 1:16 PM, frazmo <<a href="mailto:frazmo@gmail.com" class="">frazmo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">In addition to the nightmarish plastics problem, overfishing continues to be a huge issue. And, invasive species cause harm to oceanic ecosystems as well. The Lionfish in the Atlantic and Caribbean is one scary example:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lionfish.html" class="">http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/lionfish.html</a><br class=""><br class=""></div>And OK, sorry for the brief departure from invasive plants! ;-) Cheers, "Arlington VA Steve Young"<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Steve Young <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sly27@cornell.edu" target="_blank" class="">sly27@cornell.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unfortunately, all is not well with the oceans and this time we are the invasive species. Time to clean up our act, which Rachel Carson would probably agree. Check this out: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/11/seas-have-become-plastic-graveyard-can-technology-turn-tide/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/<wbr class="">science/2017/02/11/seas-have-<wbr class="">become-plastic-graveyard-can-<wbr class="">technology-turn-tide/</a><br class="">
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On 2/24/17, 8:47 AM, "MAIPC on behalf of HTI Gmail" <<a href="mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org" class="">maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:historictimekeepers@gmail.com" class="">historictimekeepers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Wife got me a copy of "The Sea Around Us".<br class="">
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Two things. One, Amy, Carson documents some of the impacts of<br class="">
"tourism" on ecological communities.<br class="">
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Secondly, she describes oceans teeming with life that literally makes<br class="">
the surface boil at night. Has there been a recent work that more or<br class="">
less looks at these same thing today?<br class="">
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This book has made me much more aware of what goes on in the oceans.<br class="">
Easy to see why it was a best seller.<br class="">
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