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Goldfish Diaries

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Can you imagine raising goldfish for more than two decades AFTER your father won you your first goldfish in a carnival.  Peter sure can! Not only has he been raising goldfish for over 40 years, but he's also really making something out of his passion for the hobby. Peter Ponzio is the President of the American Goldfish Association and the...

| Thursday, 18 March 2010

Declining Coral Calcification on the Great Barrier Reef

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As many of us know, The Great Barrier Reef in Australia,  is under great distress. Mony Halls, Sr., DEEP Facilitator and Website/Charity coordinator from the Shark and Coral Conservation team discovered this article online and sent it to me on to stress just how dire the GBR's situation truly is.    "We feel this article encapsulates our concerns for the...

| Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Salmon Conservation

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We're sure most of you TRT members are big marine, fish, and ocean conservationists and so we're proud to see that concerned citizens in Canada are also taking a stand.  In doing so, they've urged the government to create a conservation program to protect and manage the wild salmon population.  That program is the Wild Salmon Policy.   Based on...

| Sunday, 28 February 2010

The Bohemian

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Freelance writer, photographer and blogger Wendee Holtcamp considers herself a bohemian in every sense of the word--even in the marine sense! She's done some of the unthinkable and in most people's cases, unimaginable--traveled the world, seen several sea turtles, dived with sharks, lived in a one-room log cabin and toured the tropical rainforests of Australia. She also lives to tell...

| Sunday, 28 February 2010

Deep-Sea Biodiversity

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Before even taking one look at Dr. Paul Yancey's Deep-Sea Biology page, one really gets the feeling that he's a marine biology and oceanography expert.  After all, he did get his PhD studying biochemistry of fish and sharks at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He's currently a Professor of Biology at Whitman College in Washington. He also knows all about current...

| Thursday, 25 February 2010

The Realist

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He has more of a background in engineering and law and less of a background in marine biology.  He's an expat Brit living in Sydney with a unique view on the climate change debate.  And yet with all these differences, we still found ourselves quite intrigued to interview Simon, who's NOT a climate scientist but IS the creator of the...

| Tuesday, 16 February 2010