Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Ken Bradshaw started surfing at the age of 13 at Surfside Beach, Texas. Searching for better waves than those found in the Lone Star state, Ken moved to California in 1969 and by 1972 was ready to attempt the ...
Weather and Wave Web Sites United States Geological Survey The USGS provides scientific information to help describe and understand the Earth, minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters, and manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources. NOAA (National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration) The ...
WEB SITES International Wolf Project http://www.wolf.org The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future. Dogs and their Relatives http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Canidae.html Explore the family Canidae (coyotes, dogs, foxes, jackals, ...
Hardy Jones, the filmmaker behind NATURE's The Dolphin Defender, is a former journalist with CBS News and UPI. He has been making documentaries about oceans, and marine mammals in particular, for more than 20 years. He has also founded a conservation group, BlueVoice.org, that seeks ...
In the summer of 2003, word got out that fishermen in the Solomon Islands, a tropical chain of islands in the Pacific, had trapped some 200 bottlenose dolphins in a shallow inlet. After securing the animals' captivity, they began selling them to the highest bidders. ...
by Irene Tejaratchi Dolphins use sound to detect the size, shape, and speed of objects hundreds of yards away. Fascinating and complex, the dolphin's natural sonar, called echolocation, is so precise it can determine the difference between a golf ball and a ping-pong ball based ...
Wild dolphins face numerous threats, from hungry sharks to the entangling nets of fishing boats. But scientists have only recently begun to fully recognize another threat: chemical pollution. Around the globe, researchers have found potentially unhealthy quantities of industrial chemicals in dolphins' tissue and in ...
WEB SITES Blue Voice http://www.bluevoice.org Learn more about Hardy Jones's work to protect dolphins. Center for Whale Research http://www.whaleresearch.com/index.html View orcas in their natural habitat in the Orcacam. Learn more about the Southern Residents, the orca population in Puget Sound. Former Japanese Fisherman's Ecotour Could ...
In June 2008, NATURE checked in with Pennsylvania's acting state beekeeper, Dennis van Engelsdorp, for an update on the latest details on the investigation into Colony Collapse Disorder. Q: In Silence of the Bees, you are shown monitoring a quarantine of several collapsing hives from ...
