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- September 2, 2011
- 11:42 AM
- 564 views
Happy Hour Science – Domesticating Microbes for Beer
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Little yummy beer yeasts, thanks www.diArk.org As our ancestors transitioned from hunter-gatherer to agricultural society, they had to domesticate the plants and animals we know today as farm life. Corn kernels became larger and more full of starch, cows became more docile, and all farm organisms became accustomed to life in rows or [...]... Read more »
Libkind, D., Hittinger, C., Valerio, E., Goncalves, C., Dover, J., Johnston, M., Goncalves, P., & Sampaio, J. (2011) From the Cover: Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(35), 14539-14544. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105430108
- May 3, 2011
- 01:00 PM
- 1,062 views
Why Listen to the Local Guy?
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
policymaking during comanagement in Mongolia, rcinet.ca Two of Ostrom’s (1990) institutional design principles emphasize the role of the local –rules must be adapted to local conditions and resource users must participate in the rulemaking process. These principles were determined empirically through cross-site analysis, but a large body of research from science studies [...]... Read more »
Jentoft, S. (1998) Social theory and fisheries co-management. Marine Policy, 22(4-5), 423-436. DOI: 10.1016/S0308-597X(97)00040-7
SILVER, J., & CAMPBELL, L. (2005) Fisher participation in research: Dilemmas with the use of fisher knowledge. Ocean , 48(9-10), 721-741. DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2005.06.003
Furlong, K., & Bakker, K. (2010) The contradictions in ‘alternative’ service delivery: governance, business models, and sustainability in municipal water supply. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 28(2), 349-368. DOI: 10.1068/c09122
Jentoft, S. (2007) Limits of governability: Institutional implications for fisheries and coastal governance☆. Marine Policy, 31(4), 360-370. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2006.11.003
- April 19, 2011
- 01:00 PM
- 1,095 views
Resource Dependent Communities in a Globalizing World
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
perhaps the most notorious New York City bankers, Bernie Madeoff, thewrap.com All people are still dependent on natural resources, but centuries of development complete with urbanization and globalization have removed a large proportion of the world’s population from the production of those natural resources both physically and psychologically. Take, for example, a [...]... Read more »
Mansfield, B. (2010) Is Fish Health Food or Poison? Farmed Fish and the Material Production of Un/Healthy Nature. Antipode. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00743.x
Peluso, N., Humphrey, C., & Fortmann, L. (1994) The rock, the beach, and the tidal pool: People and poverty in natural resource-dependent areas. Society , 7(1), 23-38. DOI: 10.1080/08941929409380842
Carter, N., Baland, J., & Platteau, J. (1996) Halting Degradation of Natural Resources: Is There a Role for Rural Communities?. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 72(4), 821. DOI: 10.2307/2624181
McCarthy, J. (2002) First World political ecology: lessons from the Wise Use movement. Environment and Planning A, 34(7), 1281-1302. DOI: 10.1068/a3526
- April 12, 2011
- 01:00 PM
- 1,060 views
Assumptions on Human Behavior
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Sustainability is as much about personal decisions as it is about broad social movements or top-down government rules. Those personal decisions are rooted deeply in how we behave as human beings, and that is something that science is far from understanding. Adam Smith once said “we are not ready to suspect any person [...]... Read more »
Ostrom, E. (1999) COPING WITH TRAGEDIES OF THE COMMONS. Annual Review of Political Science, 2(1), 493-535. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.2.1.493
Agrawal, A. (2003) SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE OF COMMON-POOL RESOURCES: Context, Methods, and Politics. Annual Review of Anthropology, 32(1), 243-262. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.32.061002.093112
ROBBINS, P. (2006) The politics of barstool biology: Environmental knowledge and power in greater Northern Yellowstone. Geoforum, 37(2), 185-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.11.011
Johnson, C. (2004) Uncommon Ground: The 'Poverty of History' in Common Property Discourse. Development and Change, 35(3), 407-434. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2004.00359.x
- March 15, 2011
- 01:00 PM
- 1,045 views
State of the Field: First World or Third World?
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Ever stop to think what divides the first from the third world? Why don’t we ever hear about the second and why don’t countries move between categories as they develop? Well, because the categories are historical – the second world is reserved for post-soviet countries attempting to rebuild governance. The first world is [...]... Read more »
McCarthy, J. (2006) Neoliberalism and the Politics of Alternatives: Community Forestry in British Columbia and the United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1), 84-104. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00500.x
Walker, P. (2003) Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies: toward a political ecology of the rural American West. Progress in Human Geography, 27(1), 7-24. DOI: 10.1191/0309132503ph410oa
Escobar, A. (2004) Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements. Third World Quarterly, 25(1), 207-230. DOI: 10.1080/0143659042000185417
Bryant, R., & Goodman, M. (2004) Consuming narratives: the political ecology of 'alternative' consumption. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29(3), 344-366. DOI: 10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00333.x
- March 10, 2011
- 07:00 AM
- 1,103 views
Building Policies for Stewardship
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
A dream? tomschlueter.blogspot.com We as humans and especially here at SFS like to picture an ideal government and hope that as we learn more about science and political theory, government can take steps in that direction. By any measure, governance within the United States is far from meeting the theoretical ideal. Implementation and [...]... Read more »
MEDINA, M., CORREA, J., & BARATA, C. (2007) Micro-evolution due to pollution: Possible consequences for ecosystem responses to toxic stress. Chemosphere, 67(11), 2105-2114. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.12.024
Bakker, K. (2005) Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(3), 542-565. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00474.x
- February 28, 2011
- 07:00 AM
- 965 views
Political Ecology at Home – Lessons from Abroad?
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Political ecology within the First World came from a gradual realization that the definition of the field did not only apply to exotic cultures abroad, but had resonance domestically. As first defined by Blaikie and Brookfield (1987), political ecology combines “the concerns of ecology and a broadly defined political economy. Together this encompasses the [...]... Read more »
Fortmann, L. (1996) Bonanza! The unasked questions: Domestic land tenure through international lenses. Society , 9(5), 537-547. DOI: 10.1080/08941929609380992
McCarthy, J. (2006) Neoliberalism and the Politics of Alternatives: Community Forestry in British Columbia and the United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1), 84-104. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00500.x
McCarthy, J. (2006) Rural geography: alternative rural economies -the search for alterity in forests, fisheries, food, and fair trade. Progress in Human Geography, 30(6), 803-811. DOI: 10.1177/0309132506071530
Walker, P. (2003) Reconsidering 'regional' political ecologies: toward a political ecology of the rural American West. Progress in Human Geography, 27(1), 7-24. DOI: 10.1191/0309132503ph410oa
- January 25, 2011
- 02:00 PM
- 1,003 views
State of the Field: Too big, too small, just right – the Goldilocks Conundrum of Conservation
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
scale can really change perspective... take this fruit fly eye, for example, at scanning electron microscope scale - it looks like an army of hairs Scale seems like a simple term with a simple definition, a concept certainly not up for debate. Well, digging just a little deeper we find that the nuances [...]... Read more »
Jennifer Silver. (2008) Weighing in on scale: synthesizing disciplinary approaches to scale in the context of building interdisciplinary resource management. Society and Natural Resources, 21(10). info:/
Jentoft, S. (2000) The community: a missing link of fisheries management. Marine Policy, 24(1), 53-60. DOI: 10.1016/S0308-597X(99)00009-3
- October 27, 2010
- 12:08 PM
- 1,253 views
Chemistry of the Great Big Blue: Pharmaceuticals
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Caffeinated crabs, anti-depressed dolphins, and feminized fish, oh, my! Can you imagine what would happen if sea creatures had access to your medicine cabinet? Well, they do. Pharmaceuticals from humans make their way into the ecosystem either through excretion into urine or by people disposing of old medications down the toilet. The first of these sources [...]... Read more »
THOMAS, K. (2004) The occurrence of selected human pharmaceutical compounds in UK estuaries. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 49(5-6), 436-444. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2004.02.028
E. R. Peele, F. L. Singleton, J. W. Deming, B. Cavari and R. R. Colwell. (1981) Effects of Pharmaceutical Wastes on Microbial Populations in Surface Waters at the Puerto Rico Dump Site in the Atlantic Ocean . Applied Environmental Microbiology, 41(4). info:/
LEE, W., & ARNOLD, C. (1983) Chronic toxicity of ocean-dumped pharmaceutical wastes to the marine amphipod Amphithoe valida☆. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 14(4), 150-153. DOI: 10.1016/0025-326X(83)90070-X
Long, E., Macdonald, D., Smith, S., & Calder, F. (1995) Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments. Environmental Management, 19(1), 81-97. DOI: 10.1007/BF02472006
- October 21, 2010
- 08:00 AM
- 1,220 views
Wait, stop – we have an Avatar tree too!
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Remember how that Na'avi needed their tree of souls? Well, it might not be as obvious to us, but we depend on our forests too.
Dependence on natural resources is often relegated to a characteristic of the rural poor, a reason for development aid to swoop in and provide other economic opportunities. However, a recent article [...]... Read more »
Guo, Z., Zhang, L., & Li, Y. (2010) Increased Dependence of Humans on Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. PLoS ONE, 5(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013113
- September 28, 2010
- 10:55 AM
- 1,103 views
Chemistry of the Great Big Blue: Sewage
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
"Warning! Stormwater discharge area may be contaminated by discharge from pipe. Swimming is not recommended within 200 feet of this sign during active discharge"
You live on a rural island. You poop. You flush. Does your island have a sewage treatment plant? Is your plant large enough to deal with the influx of tourists that increases [...]... Read more »
Saravanabhavan G, Helleur R, & Hellou J. (2009) GC-MS/MS measurement of natural and synthetic estrogens in receiving waters and mussels close to a raw sewage ocean outfall. Chemosphere, 76(8), 1156-62. PMID: 19435639
Espinosa, F., Guerra-García, J., & García-Gómez, J. (2007) Sewage pollution and extinction risk: an endangered limpet as a bioindicator?. Biodiversity and Conservation, 16(2), 377-397. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-3014-3
- September 21, 2010
- 12:45 PM
- 1,227 views
Chemistry of the Great Big Blue: Sedimentation
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
Sedimentation in the Chesapeake - look at the brown toward the headwaters. Found at nasa.gov
Rocks erode, travel down rivers and eventually in the form of small particles, settle in river deltas and estuaries. Even smaller pieces can be carried hundreds of miles into the ocean. It’s all part of the natural process of sedimentation, but [...]... Read more »
Short, F., & Wyllie-Echeverria, S. (2009) Natural and human-induced disturbance of seagrasses. Environmental Conservation, 23(01), 17. DOI: 10.1017/S0376892900038212
Toshihiro Onitsukaa, Tomohiko Kawamura, Satoshi Ohashic, Shunsuke Iwanaga, Toyomitsu Horiia and Yoshiro Watanabe. (2008) Effects of sediments on larval settlement of abalone Haliotis diversicolor. JEMBE, 365(1). info:/doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2008.07.042
Houjie Wang, Zuosheng Yang, Yoshiki Saitoc, J. Paul Liud, Xiaoxia Suna, and Yan Wanga. (2007) Stepwise decreases of the Huanghe (Yellow River) sediment load (1950–2005): Impacts of climate change and human activities . Global and Planetary Change, 57(3-4). info:/doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.01.003
- September 8, 2010
- 12:25 PM
- 1,563 views
Maximum (un)Sustainable Yield
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
In 1954 and 1957 Gordon and Schaefer respectively described the idea of maximum sustainable yield (MSY) – that is, the amount of fish that could be taken by commercial fishing operations to maximize reproduction by the system year after year. Since then, it has been heralded as the mathematical panacea to fisheries management.
Gordon and Schaefer [...]... Read more »
Gordon, H. (1954) The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery. Journal of Political Economy, 62(2), 124. DOI: 10.1086/257497
- September 7, 2010
- 11:00 AM
- 1,322 views
Chemistry of the Great Big Blue: Nutrients
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
The Great Big Blue looks like it contains nothing but water and maybe a little salt, especially out in the open ocean. However, this kind of sparse environment is exactly where the chemistry matters the most – it’s a fine line between not enough, too much, and just right. Given this, there’s no distinct [...]... Read more »
HECKY, R., & KILHAM, P. (1988) Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in freshwater and marine environments: A review of recent evidence on the effects of enrichment. Limnology and Oceanography, 33(4_part_2), 796-822. DOI: 10.4319/lo.1988.33.4_part_2.0796
Howarth, R. (1988) Nutrient Limitation of Net Primary Production in Marine Ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 19(1), 89-110. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.19.110188.000513
Behrenfeld, M., Bale, A., Kolber, Z., Aiken, J., & Falkowski, P. (1996) Confirmation of iron limitation of phytoplankton photosynthesis in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Nature, 383(6600), 508-511. DOI: 10.1038/383508a0
Fanning, K. (1989) Influence of atmospheric pollution on nutrient limitation in the ocean. Nature, 339(6224), 460-463. DOI: 10.1038/339460a0
- August 31, 2010
- 07:00 AM
- 1,215 views
Chemistry of the Great Big Blue: Metals
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
The ocean is full of metals and minerals that naturally occur such as zinc, copper, and cobalt and many marine organisms therefore depend upon access to those metals in small concentrations. However, inshore marine systems receive inputs from industrial, mining, and stormwater runoff that far exceed what these organisms can use. So what’s the effect? [...]... Read more »
M. Mayer-Pinto, A.J. Underwood, T. Tolhurst, R.A. Coleman. (2010) Effects of metals on aquatic assemblages: What do we really know?. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., 1-9. info:/
- May 4, 2010
- 07:00 AM
- 1,347 views
Social Science to the Rescue
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
The cultural driver of shark killing - from topnews.in
Can social science save the sharks? A recent article in Progress in Oceanography by Peter Jacques seems to think so, calling for a “social oceanography”. In other circles, this could be known as the human dimensions of a marine ecosystem or the social side of [...]... Read more »
Jacques, P. (2010) The social oceanography of top oceanic predators and the decline of sharks: a call for a new field. Progress In Oceanography. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.001
- April 6, 2010
- 06:50 PM
- 1,453 views
Ecosystem Based Management: Managing for Everything or Nothing At All
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
www.californiafires.com
Managing for stability just doesn’t work.
This epiphany has helped forge the development of ecosystem based management (EBM), theoretically a more holistic approach to natural resource management that is more in tune with natural processes. However, we still haven’t worked out the kinks so something good in theory often falls flat. A couple of recent [...]... Read more »
GRANEK, E., POLASKY, S., KAPPEL, C., REED, D., STOMS, D., KOCH, E., KENNEDY, C., CRAMER, L., HACKER, S., BARBIER, E.... (2010) Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management. Conservation Biology, 24(1), 207-216. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01355.x
PETERSON, M., HALL, D., FELDPAUSCH-PARKER, A., & PETERSON, T. (2010) Obscuring Ecosystem Function with Application of the Ecosystem Services Concept. Conservation Biology, 24(1), 113-119. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01305.x
- March 14, 2010
- 11:45 PM
- 1,309 views
The Cove, Dolphins, and Mercury
by Bluegrass Blue Crab in Southern Fried Science
thanks to www.savebay.info
The Cove has recently collected a long list of awards including most notably an Oscar for best documentary. These well-deserved accolades reward the filmmakers for risky and groundbreaking filming in a highly protected cove in Japan where a dolphin fishery thrives, both to feed the aquarium trade and citizens wishing to enjoy [...]... Read more »
Akagi H, Grandjean P, Takizawa Y, & Weihe P. (1998) Methylmercury dose estimation from umbilical cord concentrations in patients with Minamata disease. Environmental research, 77(2), 98-103. PMID: 9600802
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