Bermuda BREAM

Dr. Thad Murdoch I am away from Bermuda for a few weeks - attending the ASLO conference in Nice and presenting a poster on my research on coral functional groups ( link to abstract ). I was lucky enough to receive an Early Career travel grant for $1000 from ASLO to help defray the costs of the trip. I also will be visiting the Monaco Oceanographic Museum to chat with colleagues at the research lab there. Meanwhile, back in Bermuda, Jessie Hallett is working on her BZS-funded project to georeference and digitize the 200+ yr old Hurd map of Bermuda's island and reefs - so that she can determine how much Bermuda's marine environment (such as the ship channels and Castle Harbour) has been modified since 1797.

The Economist recently published a Special Report on the sea that is worth reading, entitled "Troubled Waters". It can be read by following this link: here

A Harbour Seal was found on Friday at Admiralty House, Pembroke, Bermuda that must have come from the NE United States or Canada. It probably was carried on ocean currents - which are carrying water from the North this week, as can be seen on this US navy image (Bermuda is at 32*N 64*W): The Bermuda Royal Gazette published an article today on the story - see this link . UPDATE: The Bermuda Sun newspaper published a report on Wednesday Jan. 7th. See this link UPDATE: Dr. John Bruno over at ClimateShifts.org linked to this report - and apparently the anti global-warming hopes it falsely inspired - see link here