6/30/10
6/27/10
BAILEY MATTHEWS SHELL MUSEUM focuses on GULF COAST SHELLS and MOLLUSKS
Here's the link to a SEA SHELL and MOLLUSK MUSEUM in Florida that focuses on the sea creatures of the GULF OF MEXICO.
Now we would suggest that if you go to a beach to clean up and you find some washed up shells that you ASK someone - a teacher or the director of the clean up effort what you should do if you find sea shells. The scientists may want to study these rather than let you take them home.
REMEMBER THAT A GOOD SEA SHELL COLLECTOR ALWAYS identifies not only the shell, but the location it was found and the date.
Now we would suggest that if you go to a beach to clean up and you find some washed up shells that you ASK someone - a teacher or the director of the clean up effort what you should do if you find sea shells. The scientists may want to study these rather than let you take them home.
REMEMBER THAT A GOOD SEA SHELL COLLECTOR ALWAYS identifies not only the shell, but the location it was found and the date.
6/23/10
JAPAN STILL HUNTS WHALES and the INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION FAILS
JAPAN STILL HUNTS, as does ICELAND and NORWAY... and this breaking news story from Yahoo news explains....
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer
"The breakdown put diplomatic efforts on ice for at least a year, raised the possibility that South Korea might join the whaling nations and raised questions about the global drive to prevent the extinction of the most endangered whale species."
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer
"The breakdown put diplomatic efforts on ice for at least a year, raised the possibility that South Korea might join the whaling nations and raised questions about the global drive to prevent the extinction of the most endangered whale species."
6/21/10
SEASHELLS ARE NOT AS COMMON AS THEY USED TO BE - MAYBE IT's TIME TO JUST SKETCH THEM!
SEASHELLS are disappearing off the shores and going to the beach even in the early morning will not guarantee that there are shells to be collected. That means that there are fewer shelled sea creatures living under our oceans.
One of the reasons for this is dredging or harvesting shells by scraping the bottom of the sea and hauling them aboard a ship.
Limit your collecting to what you personally find washed up on a beach. Or take a sketch book with you and draw what you see!
It's lovely to have a row of jars full of beach finds - sea glass and holed stones - scallops and muscles - the occasional univalve - lined up on a shelf. These can be full of memories of a wonderful day at the beach. But remember sea shells are part of the natural world that usually reclaims itself.
DO NOT PURCHASE SEA SHELLS FROM STORES !
One of the reasons for this is dredging or harvesting shells by scraping the bottom of the sea and hauling them aboard a ship.
Limit your collecting to what you personally find washed up on a beach. Or take a sketch book with you and draw what you see!
It's lovely to have a row of jars full of beach finds - sea glass and holed stones - scallops and muscles - the occasional univalve - lined up on a shelf. These can be full of memories of a wonderful day at the beach. But remember sea shells are part of the natural world that usually reclaims itself.
DO NOT PURCHASE SEA SHELLS FROM STORES !
6/19/10
AUDUBON INSTITUTE and Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program
Be a good mermaid and check out this site because it's about how we are trying to rescue the sea turtles that are dying - congested with oil.
"The Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program (LMMSTRP) is a volunteer organization based out of Audubon Aquarium of the America in New Orleans. Funded in part through the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Prescott Grant Program, this project rescues, cares for and relocates injured, ill or out-of-habitat marine mammals and sea turtles."
WHEREVER THERE ARE BEACHES some MARINE life is going to come ashore dying or dead. There are other organizations in which volunteers come to the aid of these creatures.
"The Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program (LMMSTRP) is a volunteer organization based out of Audubon Aquarium of the America in New Orleans. Funded in part through the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Prescott Grant Program, this project rescues, cares for and relocates injured, ill or out-of-habitat marine mammals and sea turtles."
WHEREVER THERE ARE BEACHES some MARINE life is going to come ashore dying or dead. There are other organizations in which volunteers come to the aid of these creatures.
6/15/10
SEA TURTLES and ELKHORN CORAL
SEA TURTLES
are among the sea creatures who are being killed by the massive oil spill in the
GULF OF MEXICO.
6/11/10
Did You Know THERE ARE NATURAL HOLES IN THE SEA BED THAT OIL FLOWS OUT OF?
OIL DOES EMERGE from natural holes in the sea bottom and that oil does pollute the water all the time. ON SOME BEACHES you find SEA TAR which is another oily substance. The amounts are usually minimal and not so destructive as the spill we are learning about now which is in the Gulf of Mexico.
6/9/10
JUNE 2010 : SUMMER READING : LIZ KESSLER THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP
"After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world."
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER as YOU SIT on A LOUNGE CHAIR grooming your tail!
YOU HAVE A LIBRARY CARD DON'T YOU?
Liz Kessler Ther Tail of Emily Windsnap
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2004
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER as YOU SIT on A LOUNGE CHAIR grooming your tail!
YOU HAVE A LIBRARY CARD DON'T YOU?
Liz Kessler Ther Tail of Emily Windsnap
Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2004
NEW YORK TIMES reports THE GULF OF MEXICO OIL DISASTER LARGER THAN THOUGHT
Link now to this New York Times article that explains that instead of 1000 barrels of oil escaping into the sea it's more like 5000.
Sea Turtles and other dead sea creatures are washing ashore.
Sea Turtles and other dead sea creatures are washing ashore.
6/1/10
MERMAID PAPERDOLL
Dover publications has a lot of great books and you can buy a paper doll with outfits that is a mermaid from them.
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