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Al Dove — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Here’s the last part of my conversation with WREK scientist/DJs Pete Ludovice and Bill Hung. In this bit we’re talking about collaborations with Georgia Tech and the engineering of the aquarium. Check out the rest of their archive here, and listen live on Wednesdays at 12 (details in the link).

ITTB episode 3 of 4

Al Dove — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Here’s episode 3 of my conversation with WREK scientist/DJs Pete Ludovice and Bill Hung, for their show Inside the Black Box. In this bit, we’re talking about how field and aquarium-based research inform each other. See the rest of their archive here, and tune in on Wednesdays at 12 for a webcast dose of “science only funnier”

ITTB episode 2 of 4

Al Dove — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Here’s episode two (of four) of my conversation with WREK scientist/DJs Pete Ludovice and Bill Hung. In this bit we’re talking about whale shark research in Mexico and the idea of conservation by payment for ecosystem services. Check out the rest of their archive here, and listen live on Wednesdays at 12 (details in the link)

Inside the Black Box interview

Al Dove — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:57:47 +0000

Two weeks back I did an hour long radio interview with WREK 91.1, a public radio station out of Georgia Tech, for their science show Inside the Black Box, which is described by its hosts Pete Ludovice and Bill Hung as “Science, only funnier”. Pete and Bill are both faculty members at Tech and also stand-up comedians.

I am going to post the interview here in four more manageable parts over the next week or so. Here’s Section 1, where we talk about how public aquariums came out of the naturalist movement of the Victorian era.

If you just can’t wait for the rest (and who could blame you, he says, sotto voce and without a hint of irony…), the whole interview with lead-ins and musical breaks is here.

While you’re at it, put a reminder on your calendar to listen to their live webcast each week on Wednesdays at 12. They have sponsorship from NSF and do great work; I appreciate their permission to post the interview here.

Good news everyone!

Al Dove — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:00:00 +0000

I am excited to say that I will be joining the Deep Sea News network of marine science bloggers. For those who are not familiar with DSN, they’ve been producing kick-butt marine science bloggy-type content since 2005 and are currently the most popular marine bio blog on the web and the only one listed in Google News. Joining that community means I can work with some of the best mar-sci bloggers around and hopefully we all riff off each other to produce great content and host the sort of excellent discussions that I have always found so rewarding about blog audiences. Its a sort of critical mass that’s much more manageable in a blog network than going solo.

I am going to hang onto this domain, because there will be times when I want to write about stuff that is not DSN material, so don’t drop this page from your feed reader just yet.

My first post is a general intro to the natural history of whale sharks and may be very familiar to folks who’ve followed this blog for a while. Once its set up, I’ll post the link to RSS feed of my posts at DSN here. But really, you should subscribe to ALL of DSN’s stuff, you can’t go wrong.