Welcome to Wonderful Waterful Wednesday, a weekly post at Danielle Meitiv’s Barefoot Blog that explores everything fabulous and fascinating about the oceans and waterways that cover our Blue Planet. Filmmaker and alternative-energy proponent James Cameron and marine ecologist Enric Sala have been chosen as the National Geographic Society’s newest Explorers-in-Residence. This select group includes some [...]
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
2 Jun
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Living on the Edge
Check out gorgeous images and learn about the bizarre sea star featured in this month’s National Geographic magazine – and right here at Danielle Meitiv’s Barefoot Blog!
18 May
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Ocean Heroes and Stylish Bloggers
This week’s Wonderful Waterful Wednesday post features ocean heroes and some stylish bloggers, too!
12 May
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: the Language of Clouds
Today’s waterful blog post celebrates not the water in oceans or streams, but that which hangs out in the sky: clouds. Yes, of course you knew that clouds were masses of water droplets (or ice crystals) suspended in the air – after all, without clouds you can’t have rain. But doesn’t it amaze you still? [...]
6 Apr
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: the Ways of Whales
Whales are among the largest and most magnificent creatures to ever walk the Earth. They are completely adapted to one environment, but wholly dependent upon another for their life’s breath.
30 Mar
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
We’re Going Down! Happy Wednesday! For this week’s wonderful, waterful post, we’ll dive to the deepest realms of the ocean to check out the amazing, bizarre, and sometimes downright creepy-looking creatures that live there. In water 3000+ feet deep, where no sunlight penetrates, fish, squid, shrimp and jellyfish make their own light to help them [...]
25 Mar
Blooming Spring Comes to the Sea
Spring means new growth as plants respond to warmer temperatures and higher light levels. That’s true in the ocean, as well.
23 Mar
Wonderful Waterful Wednesday
Welcome to the inaugural post of a new feature here at Brave Blue Words: Wonderful Waterful Wednesday. Each Wednesday, I will feature one of the more than 1,200 beautiful and bizarrre creatures cataloged during the recently-completed Census of Marine Life. I’ve written about some of the amazing accomplishments and discoveries of the census here and [...]
16 Mar
Clear and Present Danger: Overwhelming Ourselves into Apathy
After covering a AAAS session on science and the media in my blog post last week, I’d planned to focus on another titled “Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems.” Two of the talks stood out for me: one on the potential impacts of ocean warming and acidification, and the [...]
4 Mar
Science and the Media, or How Science Advanced at AAAS 2011: Part I
Most science conferences are like little in-group parties, where people who know each other’s work intimately get together to discuss their latest results, and query each other about what to do next. Don’t get me wrong – I love them. You meet interesting people, learn A LOT, and come home with new ideas, and great [...]
