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		<title>Snap back to reality. Whoop! There goes gravity&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider a layer cake. How would you build a model that predicts the thickness of a 10 cm cube of frosting spread uniformly around the cake? If the cake is 10 cm tall and 30 cm in diameter (we&#8217;re hungry), then the frosting would contribute to a uniform &#8220;cake-level rise&#8221; of about 0.6 cm. Not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=283&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;All Kinds of Fun&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travels to foreign lands interfered with posting about NOAA Administrator-nominee Jane Lubchenco&#8217;s Senate confirmation hearing last week. She is a Distinguished Professor of Zoology at Oregon State University, and a prominent voice guiding U.S. policy and non-governmental efforts to study and protect the watery part of the world. Lubchenco served on President Bill Clinton&#8217;s National [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=276&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fish? In the ocean?</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/fish-in-the-ocean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon cycle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physiology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists from the U.S., U.K., and Canada and recently discovered an entire ocean in the belly of a fish. Rod Wilson is an animal physiologist at the University of Exeter who, with Martin Grosell (U. Miami), has spent the last several years elucidating how fish make calcium carbonate in their intestines. Fish drink seawater rich [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=264&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Arctic, New President?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JOCI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The new president will spend the day attending a prayer service at the National Cathedral and later, meeting with his Joint Chiefs and economic advisers. As Barack Obama acclimates to the presidency, we&#8217;ll dip into the recent past. Former President George Bush on Jan. 9 issued a presidential directive that refines U.S. national interests in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=260&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Antiquities and Antiquaries</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/antiquities-and-antiquaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Waterfront]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Bush last week designated nearly 200,000 square miles of Pacific islands, reef, waters, and floor as protected, under the century-old federal Antiquities Act. This announcement sent the mainstream press racing for their globes and atlases, and momentarily put oceans at the center of the national conversation. Outlets that cover marine issues intermittently embraced the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=221&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oceans Champion Tapped to Lead CIA</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/oceans-champion-tapped-to-lead-cia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sagarin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President-elect Barack Obama nominated Jane Lubchenco as NOAA administrator, the oceans community cheered. Yesterday, when he asked Leon Panetta to direct the Central Intelligence Agency, the response was more guarded – and not because the oceans community is particularly entrenched in The Company. Maybe we should be. Panetta chaired the Pew Ocean Commission, whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=105&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Public Trust Manifesto</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/the-public-trust-manifesto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sagarin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realoceans.wordpress.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we move forward with a new and hopefully ocean-friendly administration, we should have a unifying foundation on which to present ocean issues. Especially inspired by the scholarship of Nicholas School Ph.D. student Mary Turnipseed, I believe that the Public Trust Doctrine, an ancient legal concept with powerful, but underutilized roots in U.S. law, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=122&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Take that out of your mouth.”</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/%e2%80%9ctake-that-out-of-your-mouth%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Matters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Such is the cry of parents whose young children have an appetite for learning that is sometimes too literal. Over the last year or two we have seen an increase of stories about the effects of toxic plastics on human health, from fetal to adult. The scientist Jacques Monod once commented of genetics, “What’s true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=93&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jellyfish that Lit the World</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/the-jellyfish-that-lit-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Under the Sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biochemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bioluminescence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marine biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scientific adventure that began with a haul of 10,000 bioluminescent jellyfish off Friday Harbor during 1961 has resulted in the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Osamu Shimomura&#8216;s career shot forward in 1956 when he isolated a luminescent protein found in the mollusc Cypridina. This was a major feat for a young researcher, particularly since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=85&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drill, baby, drill!</title>
		<link>http://realoceans.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/drill-baby-drill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Roston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interior department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[offshore drilling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[outer continental shelf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday voted to lift the generation-old ban on oil drilling on the Outer Contintental Shelf, thus bringing to resolution the year-long ascension of the issue from oil-industry wish list to national policy. Democrats, ostensibly the party in control of both houses of Congress, caved in to a forceful Republican minority, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=realoceans.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4702042&amp;post=26&amp;subd=realoceans&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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