Category: harp seals

Apps, Articles and the Flexibility of the Nicholas School of the Environment

It has been a busy couple of weeks for the Johnston Lab, with the ‘publication’ of two products that have arisen from student projects in the Nicholas School’s Masters of Environmental Management Program. These two products (described in greater detail below) are at nearly opposite ends of the publication spectrum – one is a scientific…
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Ice seals and Cachalot in Spring 2012 Duke Environment

[photo size=’small’ align=’right’ link=’http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2012/04/DEimage_preview.jpg’ icon=’zoom’ lightbox=’image’ ]http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2012/04/DEimage_preview.jpg[/photo]The Spring 2012 issue of Duke Environment Magazine is out, and there are two articles that cover work done in the Johnston Lab. The first is the lead story in the research section portion of the magazine (called the Log), and is a recap of the work we published…
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Harp seals and ice featured on NSIDC website

Another brief update as I recover from my last trip. While traveling I was contacted by Dr. Julienne Stroeve from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO. Julienne had picked up on our recent paper on sea ice, climate change and harp seals in PLoS ONE and was interested in including…
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Harp seals and ice: Media and hype

[photo size=’medium’ align=’right’]http://superpod.ml.duke.edu/johnston/files/2012/01/Seal-26th007.jpg[/photo]It’s been 13 days since our paper about changing sea ice conditions in breeding regions of harp seals was published in PLoS ONE. It has been incredibly interesting to watch the story propagate through the worlds media channels, both traditional and online. As a scientist, I’m increasingly interested in how science is portrayed to…
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Harp seals on thin ice…

Today we published a paper on the effects of climate change on pagophilic seals in the North Atlantic in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The paper is available to everyone, free of charge here: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029158 This paper is the third in a series of studies published by my lab that examine the effects of climate…
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Quoted in ScienceNOW: Harp seals and ice

I did an interview a couple of weeks ago for a journalist that was covering a new paper on changing sea ice in the Northwest Atlantic and it’s potential effects on harp seals. The ScienceNOW piece, written by student journalist Erin Loury was released on 30 November 2011. The story can be found here: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/baby-seals-need-the-nicest-ice.html It was…
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Abstracts for Upcoming Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals

Our lab has several abstracts accepted for presentation at the upcoming 19th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals. The conference is being held in Tampa, FL during November 28 to December 2, 2011. The theme of the conference is: “Cumulative effects of threats to marine mammals: Challenges to animals, scientists, and managers.” The…
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Busy spring break!

Spring break at Duke is pretty much over, and it has been a busy time. Without classes to teach and with most of our research group at the Bio-logging conference in Hobart, Tasmania, it has been a great time to get some writing done. This week we polished off two papers on sea ice and…
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International Marine Conservation Congress – Ice and Seals

Our lab just got word that two abstracts have been accepted for oral presentations at the upcoming International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC) this May in Victoria, BC. I will be giving a talk that summarizes our work on harp seals and sea ice in the North Atlantic and T.J. Young will be speaking about his…
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Greetings from Kaliningrad – Marine Mammals of the Holarctic 2010

[dropcap4 color=”green”]H[/dropcap4]ello from the city of Kaliningrad, located within the small part of Russia that sits on the Baltic Sea. I’m here for the Marine Mammals of the Holarctic meeting, presenting a paper on the long term trends in sea ice in the breeding regions of harp seals. The talk went well, and it was a great…
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