MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—This is the third in a series of lightly edited videos I took while on my first (but not last) diving trip to Looe Key Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from August 15-19, 2014. The footage comes from two night dives at the same location on the reef.
Looe Key Reef, Mooring 18 (Aug. 16, 2014...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—This is the second in a series of color-corrected, but lightly edited, videos I took while on my first (but not last) diving trip to Looe Key Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from August 15-19, 2014. This dive was the second of two afternoon dives.
Looe Key Reef, Mooring 11 (Aug. 16, 2014...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—This is the first in a series of color-corrected, but lightly edited, videos I took while on my first (but not last) diving trip to Looe Key Reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary from August 15-19, 2014. This dive was the first of two afternoon dives.
NOAA recommends protection for Nassau gr...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has proposed listing the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal, published in the Federal Register on Sept. 2., 2014, was developed in response to an Aug. 31, 2010, petition by WildEarth Guardians to list the Nasau grouper, Goliath grouper […]
Memories of Florida
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—My earliest memories of Florida are vague. I grew up in Louisiana, not terribly far from Florida on a global scale, but my home town of Shreveport in northwest Louisiana might as well been in a different universe from the Gulf Coast given the condition of the roads between the northern and southern parts […]
More corals to get Endangered Species Ac...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—Last Wednesday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that 20 species of corals will protection under the Endangered Species Act. Five of the species occur in Caribbean waters, the other 15 occur in the Pacific and Indian oceans. In addition, the agency found that two Caribbean species previously listed as threatened, elkhorn and […]
Feds consider lessened protections for m...
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a proposal to change the status of the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) from “endangered” to “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal, published in the Federal Register on July 2, states that an agency review of a petition requesting a change in the species’ […]
Welcome to Last Call for Corals
MECHANICSVILLE, Va.—Welcome to Last Call for Corals: Life, Death, and Conservation of an Ocean Ecosystem. This blog, like another blog I recently created, Wanderers and Wonderers: Rambling through the Realm of the Exploration and Environmental Narrative, serves as an adjunct to my dissertation research in the Media, Art, and Text program at Virginia Commonwealth University. […]