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You can touch this

March 4, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, crochet, IMAX, knit, reef

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of seeing "Deep Sea 3D" in its full 3-D IMAX glory. The opening shot is a glowing school of moon jellies floating towards you, and we all reached up our hands to touch the softly,...continued

Three cheers for Kiribati

February 14, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, Kiribati, MPA, turtles

 Polish up your dive kit and book a flight to Kiribati, which just created the world's largest marine protected area. This expands the large area designated in the Phoenix Islands in 2006. At more than 164,000 square miles it's...continued

Acid trip

December 14, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, oceanacidification, wobbegong

Back at the aforementioned lab, we occasionally put the equipment to uses for which it was not, strictly speaking, fully authorized. One of which was testing the pH of soft drinks. There's that old tale that you can use Coca-Cola...continued

DIY Underwater -- A call to arms

August 14, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
algae, coral, technology

Let's not dip too deep into the archive of songs about fish. Really, we could do a whole blog of them and I need to save those references for future quirky titles. But, when someone, in this case my colleague...continued

Kate Wing
Kate Wing
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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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