A Visit with Peter Cook at Long Marine Lab’s Pinniped Cognition & Sensory Systems Laboratory

“Pea soup” is a northeastern term: dense, intractable fog, the kind that causes to you to creep along in your car at ten miles per hour, because you can’t see more than six yards ahead. But it’s not Maine or New Brunswick or Nova Scotia, rather the infamous Devil’s Slide on California’s Highway 1. Giddily looking forward to driving south from San Francisco, I had chosen the coast road over a six-lane highway, only to find my impish hopes for a vista-filled drive foiled by a thick veil of fog....

The Lungs of the Mediterranean

THE LUNGS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN Humor me: take the deepest breath you can, inhaling deep into your abdomen. And hold it as long as possible. When you finally can’t hold it any longer, exhale and take a new breath. Last October I witnessed something that dramatically changed that experience: breath. Even I, the ever-so-keen conservationist, found my eyes glaze over when I read about how the oceans support the air we breathe, discussions of things like photosynthesis and carbon-sinks. But then I saw...

Mangrove and Turtle Conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands

The Times of the Islands magazine is out, summarizing my research from last June in the Turks and Caicos Islands: http://www.timespub.tc/2011/10/simple-truths/   Share this:FacebookDiggStumbleUponEmailReddit