Marine Discovery Centre News - Tara Ellard

Bron and Anth are in the Studio talking about the Bureau today. The weather was done interruption free except for the wind what seemed to be rushing through the studio (incuding seagulls). The gale warning should get rid of them in the next day or so, issued by the Bureau of Maybeology.

News from the Royal Society of the Herald Sun - apparently looking at the sea makes poms feel more relaxed.

Dolphins suffer from sleep deprivation when they have new babies - no great suprise to Bron !!. And a new deep sea organism is using red lights on tenticles to imitate other orgnaisms. They get their pigment from the prey that they have eaten !

The Real Royal Society has come out with a report saying cuts in carbon dioxide emissions are needed to reduce the acidity in the oceans - as the current acidification cannot be reduced in our lifetime.

Hawiai have banned spotlights that focus out on the ocean will be banned for the light polution

MDC is in the middle of the annual recruitment of vollunteers - both for the Summer campaign, and the programs during the rest of the year. As a vollie you get to do a wide range of things, but most importantly you spend your time at Queenscliff's fabulous Marine Discovery Centre, and the people you get to hang with LOVE all things marine. What more could you want for the summer?! To find out more, call the Marine Discovery Centre on 5258 3344.

Tim spent a week in Dawin last week for the joint Aust. Marine Sciences Association and Aust Society of Fish Biology conferences. It was 32 degrees all week! The themes were Biodiversity, Biosecurity and Biodiscovery. One of the big topics discussed was global warming although it does not seemed to have progressed to the level of understanding as the Greenhouse effect. However there is much more known and predictable about the acidification of the oceans. There was a call for movement on teh impact now that the science is done.

The student prize was won by a student studying mangrove snails, describing a couple of new genera and even a new family of snails (!) - all in a single honours year.

Notice to Mariners is out for the the trial dredging. There are exclusing zones in the heads and around the boat, and it is bigger the the Spirit of Tasmania, so you can't miss it. For more info head to their website.

The Shipping industry have been active in the media in the last week about the value to the State.

BlueWedge are having a protest next Sunday - head to the webpage or call Jenny Warfe on 5987 1583

Another group has applied to have the Heads Emergency listed as a threatend site due to the trial dredging. The Federal Minister has declined, and you can go the the website for more information.

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Bretts solution to light pollution is to get rid of half the streetlights. The diving is pretty dismal - it is pretty rough (ie not calm). The temp is still about 12 C (above brain freeze), and the wind is the real pain (if only it would rain