International Coastal Cleanup

CLEAN THE SHORELINE - 31 August is the deadline to register for the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup), scheduled for 15-23 September 2007. Data is collected from each cleanup to determine the major (and minor)causes of shoreline litter in each region. The Canadian initiative is a contributor to the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup, a worldwide event that attracts more than 68 participating countries - http://www.coastalcleanup.org

The unnatural history of the sea

A promising new book is out with the above title. Read about it here.

Marine life researched off the east coast this summer

An interesting and recent news article on marine life off the east coast of Canada and the impacts of bottom trawling can be found here.

Sea Surface Temps.

See the oranges and reds; these mean higher Sea surface temperatures (SST). Now look at Atlantic Canada. The water is warmer than usual, by about 3 to 4 degrees. Let's hope that no storms develop anytime in the near future; those temps. are a bad ingredient for hurricanes.


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The Blog was initiated as part of the inaugural "Sustainability Across the Curriculum" workshop, held at SMU on May 12, 2010. This is part of the Teacher Scholar programme for 2010-2011. If you have any posts, curriculum, ideas or inspired content that you would like to include, please send it to Dr. Cathy Conrad, the 2010-2011 Teaching Scholar, Associate Professor of the Department of Geography. I look forward to moderating this site and linking useful and relevant information. I hope you find it useful!



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