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MBARI and the media... 2008
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Apr 1 UC Berkeley Press Release: Octopus sex more sophisticated than arm-wrestling See also MBARI feature story: Octopus mating games
- San Francisco Chronicle, "Octopus sex is more complex than you'd think"by Patricia Yollin (4-16-08)
- Monterey Herald, "Monterey researcher reveals the sex life of octopi"by Rachel Tompa (4-12-08) (Also carried by Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose Mercury, and other regional papers)
- National Public Radio, "The Erotic Lives of Octopuses" (4-10-08)
- Daily Californian, "Love a Complicated Ritual for Amorous Octopuses" by Tim Dunn (4/7/08)
- Daily Planet (Discovery Channel Canada), "Octopus Love" (4/2/08)
- Reuters, "Love in the octopus' garden" by Maggie Fox (4/2/08)
Mar 26 Metro Santa Cruz, "Map Quest--A scientist from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute calls for more study of sites off the Central Coast where tons of chemical weapons were dumped." by Steve Hahn
Feb 16 Monterey Herald, "Uncle, nephew help create next gen of submersibles" by Rachel Tompa
See also: Ocean Studies—math, science internships for MAOS students by Rachel Tompa.
Feb 15 Ars Technica, "AAAS: That other carbon problem, ocean acidification" by John Timmer
Feb 15 Santa Cruz Sentinel, "Santa Cruz man's body found floating seven miles off Moss Landing" by Julie Copeland
Feb 13 Monterey Herald, "Monterey Bay science vessel runs into rocks in Mexico" by Larry Parsons
Jan 28 Deseret Morning News, "Warming disaster for seas" by Joe Bauman
Jan 24 Santa Cruz Sentinel, "Whale fossil found at Año Nuevo Island reveals its secrets" by Amber Dance
Jan 19 New Scientist, "Critter cams' reveal animal secrets" by Bob Holmes
For full text see: "Animal "reality shows" go scientific" on tmcnet.com
Jan 9 News release:
Stanford, Aquarium, and MBARI launch new center to tackle global threats to oceans
- Los Angeles Times, "New center to focus on solving ocean problems." by Kenneth R. Weiss (1-10-08) [Also carried in the Salinas Californian
- San Jose Mercury, "Ocean focus of new think tank." by Julie Sevrens Lyons (1-10-08) [Also carried in the Contra Costa Times and Inside Bay Area]
- Monterey Herald, "Institutions form alliance to protect oceans." by Rachel Tompa (1-10-08)
- San Francisco Chronicle, "$25 million to create new marine center." by Jane Kay (1-10-08)
- Associated Press, "$25 million given for ocean research."(1-10-08) [Carried by half a dozen regional newspapers and TV stations]
- Monterey County Weekly, "Sea Change." by Kera Abraham (1-10-08)
- KGO (ABC TV affiliate, San Francisco), "Monterey foundation set to save oceans."(1-09-08)
[Additional television coverage on KNTV (NBC Affiliate, San Francisco-Oakland), KTVU (FOX affiliate, San Francisco-Oakland), KION (CBS Affiliate, Monterey-Salinas) and KCBS radio]
 
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Last updated: Apr. 17, 2008