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<br />Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-44138833385909286402014-03-11T20:06:00.003-07:002014-03-11T20:06:39.429-07:00Y como es que es el pez ese que tu estudias? <br />
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Es la pregunta que me hacen mis amigos y familia desde Barranquilla, Colombia.<br />
Y yo como les explico que estudio un pez que no conocen?<br />
Un pez endemico. O sea, que solo existe en una parte limitada del mundo.<br />
En este caso, a lo largo de 1700km de la costa oeste de Australia, desde los arrecifes coralinos de Ningaloo hasta los arrecifes rocosos dominados por kelp del Cabo Naturaliste.<br />
Asi que no, por alla en Colombia nunca lo han oido mencionar, nunca se lo han comido.<br />
Lo mas cercano es el pez loro, que casi no se come, o mas bien nadie se da cuenta que se lo come porque en filete es casi imposible darse cuenta.<br />
Pero bueno, hoy pense que poner una foto es un primer paso para explicar que yo estudio un pez que se llama BALDCHIN GROPER. Traduccion literal: El mero menton calvo.<br />
Pero ni mero ni calvo, porque tiene escamas y no es mero.<br />
Pertenece a la familia Labridae, que incluye a las viejas y senoritas.<br />
Es grande, de carne blanca, firme y con un sabor impresionante.<br />
Todavia existe en buenos numeros a lo largo de la costa oeste de Australia y es un pez hermoso e inteligente que se alimenta de erizos y conchas.<br />
Lo mas vacano? Como se alimenta. Utiliza sus aletas pectorales para hacer huecos en la arena y encontrar sus prezas, que luego agarra con unos dientes como colmillos, se lleva hacia la parte de atras de la garganta y tritura con unos dientes faringeos super fuertes. Al final, se queda con la carne que quiere y filtra los pedazos de conchas que le quedan, expulsandolas por las agallas.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-60668441943200768662014-03-09T01:11:00.000-08:002014-03-09T01:11:01.612-08:00White peaks and barrels<br />
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Offshore.<br />
You are a deep, serene, turquoise blue.<br />
I hear you.<br />
Subtle.<br />
In three hours onshore it will be.<br />
And the peaks of white foam will form lines across your blue.<br />
Sea.<br />
I see you.<br />
Your come and your go.<br />
Your temperamental, tempestuous soul.<br />
And your serenity. Deep. I see you.<br />
Stable in your instability, and I see me.<br />
Cycles, spirals, white peaks and barrels.<br />
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I have been positively impressed by the amount of help I have gotten from the fishing community with my PhD project. Whether hinting at a potential site, a recruitment event, an observation, or donating frames from personal catch, the WA public has been epic in their assistance. This post is to say "Thank you Robert Coates!!". A member of the WA Undersea Club (<a href="http://www.waundersea.com/">http://www.waundersea.com/</a>), Robert donated some hard to get frames from Barrow Island, kept them in his freezer while I was away on the field and spent part of his Friday afternoon chatting to me about tuskies. Sharing the tuskie love WA! Hope it continues to spread. To those reading this post, if you have a tuskie frame (any, but baldies preferred), give me a buzz. <div>
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Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-18132786315122940092013-07-19T20:47:00.002-07:002013-07-19T20:47:19.213-07:00It was about timeIt was about time I made a new post in my now outdated blog. Who would have thought? When you are doing a PhD in marine science you are actually quite busy.<br />
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So my last trip took me into remote NW Australia, where myself and volunteers Sam and Troy embarked on a 20 day adventure to look at the northern limit of baldchin groper's distribution. The baldchin groper (<i>Choerodon rubescens</i>) is an endemic wrasse to the southern half of Western Australia, and a big focus of my PhD studies. It is one of the big wrasses in the world, next to species like the California Sheephead and the Maori wrasse. They are tasty, cool to watch, popular with divers, and really interesting because of their limited distribution and the implications this has for their conservation. Especially when climate is changing, waters warming, and fish species migrating down the coast.<br />
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Here I share one of my favorite experiences on the trip, a session of fish dissecting with the resident kids at Red Bluff, Quobba Station. After getting used to a bit of fish smell, the gang was right into it, helping measure, get fin clips for genetic studies and ear bones for growth estimation.<br />
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De ataduras.</div>
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De conceptos. De concepciones.</div>
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De lo que debiera ser.</div>
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Sintiendo la brisa.</div>
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Amando.</div>
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Abriendo el corazon.</div>
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Grande y fuerte.</div>
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Dandotelo mundo!</div>
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De mirada hacia el puerto.</div>
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Las jirafas me miran.</div>
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Una, dos, tres, cuatro, seis.</div>
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Todas ellas me miran. </div>
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Recibo el viento, la brisa fria.</div>
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Te veo venir, tormenta, invierno, nube, lluvia, negro.</div>
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Y me rodeo de verde, morado y rosa.</div>
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Y sonrio.</div>
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Y estoy en paz. </div>
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Y estoy tranquila.</div>
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Y respiro. Y creo. Y sigo. Y sonrio.</div>
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Baldchin groper seems to be recruiting more strongly to southern reefs along its distribution. And I seem to keep getting lucky and receiving more tips from fishwatchers out there on where I can find them. Thanks to labmates Todd and Sam, I found some pretty cool hotspots along the NE side of Rottnest Island this week. Cool field experience in Rotto, bike, transect tape, wettie and go! Old school science in the making to find new discoveries. Here, an excerpt of day 1.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-63372453185750074492013-03-31T04:18:00.000-07:002013-03-31T04:18:20.039-07:00Atta y Acromyrmex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Leafcutter ants. Endemic to South and Central America. With my current fascination with endemism sounds about right that they were the ones to first catch my attention on my most recent jungle walk. Living in Western Australia for the past year I had forgotten about the lush rainforest that holds so many species in just one spot. How diferent our world is depending on where we are. Biogeography is indeed fascinating.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-79075024707782087462013-03-31T04:15:00.000-07:002014-03-09T01:03:12.236-08:00Sierra, Mi Sierrita<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mi Sierra, mi sierrita.<br />
Y la de todos.<br />
La que cuidan los Koguis y los Arhuacos.<br />
La que es el centro del mundo<br />
El corazón de ese ser viviente que es la tierra<br />
Espacio sagrado. Te siento<br />
Cada vez que de nuevo camino entre tus trochas<br />
y me conecto.<br />
Cuando me ba<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">ῆ</span>o en tus aguas,<br />
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cuando escucho los monos aullar, los pájaros cantar y las olas rugir.<br />
Cuando veo las lineas de hormigas cargando pedacitos verdes y hasta morados,<br />
cuando me desinhibo y siento la fuerza de la tierra en mi pisar, en mi respirar, en mi corazón.<br />
Vi tus aguas bajo las rocas, tus peces, tus aves, tu gente.<br />
Te sentí.<br />
Te viví.<br />
Y Sierra mi sierrita, me dejaste como nueva como siempre!<br />
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We have an upcoming event this Friday with Scitech, a spot in the city of Perth that aims to make science cool for kids to enjoy, discover and learn. Scitech brings kids out of their center and into the real wild world, to engage with people doing the real science out there. And as we marine ecologists at the UWA Fish Ecology Lab love to show what we do, especially when we get a chance to inspire a new generation, we decided to take the challenge on and bring the kids into our office. A full report will come after the event but I wanted to share this image from my preparation last weekend. A twenty minute bike ride and half an hour exploration got me the bounty in the above image at O'Connor beach in Freo. Got me thinking about instantaneous sampling of gastropods and bivalves at remote and beautiful beaches. Cheap, exploratory, calming and rewarding research: I think I might have gotten onto a secret! <br />
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For now, I collect for the kiddies to enjoy and discover the different shapes, colors, angles and textures that even as a thirty one year old woman, blow my mind away. In the future, perhaps I can get away with beach sampling the entire tropical world.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-42308772091744136622013-01-02T02:20:00.000-08:002013-01-06T18:28:43.146-08:00Planning trips and lighting candles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And more endings. As the year ended and a new one began, I was caught planning my 2013 trips with my volunteer Sam at "Who´s your Mumma" (where they actually sell Flor De Caña!), making maps and dreams and deciding how to best tackle the WA coastline to gather tuskfish data. Red Bluff with Gypsy is the name of the trip, and as Sam would say: "I am frothing". We will be tackling the area around the Ningaloo Marine Park, which is the northermost limit for baldchin groper and the mid-range for its sister species, the bluespotted tuskfish. Many clues are sure to be found. <br />
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And then back home, lighting candles, meditating on the year passed, placing intentions for the new one to come, and working on shell-based creations. Local pipi shells are just perfect!Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-50248176066660468402012-12-26T17:07:00.000-08:002012-12-26T17:07:52.368-08:00Reencuentros<br />
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Empieza un nuevo año y se dice que una nueva era, marcada por el fin del calendario Maya y el comienzo de un mundo más lleno de amor.<br />
Empiezan nuevas cosas y con cada comenzar hay una especie de recapitulación del pasado.<br />
Un recuento de lo sucedido que nos lleva a meditar, a contemplar la vida como un todo, desde un ángulo especial.<br />
Este final del año me encontró junto a mi amiga de la infancia recapitulando en un atardecer playero de hermosos colores: naranjas y amarillos de un lado, y morados y azules del otro. De un lado, el sol. Del otro, la luna casi llena. Y en medio de todo, dos chicas maravilladas por el conjunto natural, sintiendo, meditando en silencio.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-53935930461564987392012-12-17T03:58:00.000-08:002012-12-17T03:58:08.418-08:00Estaciones<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Nunca antes había vivido en un lugar con estaciones.<br />
Cambia todo.<br />
La gente, las actitudes, las frutas en los mercados, los atuendos, las flores.<br />
En mi patio empieza a florecer el palo de guayaba; con florecitas blancas.<br />
Cuando empiezan los fríos, la fruta está lista y me dan ganas de hacer mermelada como las abuelas.<br />
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The morning´s talk was for PISCE, at Curtin University,a program that provides placements and scholarships to students in their last year of school. My task: to chat to them about careers in marine science, my path as a scientist, and my current research. The chat which consisted mainly of mouth watering pictures to lure them into becoming marine biologists, ended with a skit to look into conflicts between fish, recfishers and managers. To my surprise they were spot on to identify problems in all sectors, they identified with the point of view of each party, and had some awesome suggestions for solving conflict between users while still helping conserve fish and fisheries. Education and outreach came up as the main tools and they thought my talk was an example of how these could work! So I am very pleased to have contributed to some young promising minds and I look forward to seeing the field grow. My respect to the youth of western Australia and may you work hard to keep your oceans beautiful!</div>
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Más de conciencia ambiental y más a manera de compartir entre la comunidad, pero también con una que otra reminiscencia de latino-américa, como un par de disfraces de samba, o el grupo de Capoeira. </div>
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Con tambores y música, con chicos y grandes, con crayolas color pastel para colorear el cemento de la calle, con mucha alegría,y siendo yo sin lugar a dudas la más bullera de los espectadores, aconteció el carnaval de Freo. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Una de mis competidoras en el proceso de colorear la calle!! Azul o rosado?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Los chicos de la Capoeira antes del tremendo show de clausura</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Y no podían faltar quienes luchan por los derechos de los animales</td></tr>
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Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-88529905557368698162012-11-04T13:08:00.002-08:002012-11-08T15:57:00.105-08:00United for the tropics<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Trans-disciplinary work: a solution for tropical problems? The newly created Graduate Tropical Network for Tropical Research sure thinks so and is taking the first steps to doing so by uniting promising doctoral students across Australia´s most important universities to foster a new generation of researchers collaborating for a common cause: to improve research in the tropics that helps solve environmental and social problems. </div>
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Last week caught me at Trinity Beach in the outskirts of Cairns, sharing with a group of very talented researchers from a variety of disciplines, antrhopology, archeology, biology, economy, ecology, conservation, agriculture and biotechnology. The result: a new outlook on how to solve problems by uniting skills and taking new approaches. The future will hopefully see this network expand and will surely constitute a source of new ideas to solve real problems. It was encouraging to see people unite, open and believe in each other´s potential for creation. Collaboration and networking made possible by a community that slowly turns global, is truly making a change in how we perceive and deal with the issues facing our world today. The heroes of tomorrow are in the making, just wait and see them shine. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KC remembers her days as a tour guide at the <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The multicultural group mingles</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panelists give advise on life beyond PhD</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uganda, Australia and Colombia!</td></tr>
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Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-79122311180475654822012-10-25T23:04:00.000-07:002012-10-25T23:04:30.184-07:00In Print!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
My first scientific article was published today.</div>
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It felt good to get that email of the MEPS Table of Contents and see my surname there.</div>
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It felt good to imagine so many people opening it and going "Ah, I wonder what this one is about" and hopefully following the link to downloading the full article.</div>
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One year it took me to get this baby published; multiple co-authors, a tricky dataset and many trials, but in the end a much improved piece of work that I am happy to call mine. </div>
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The article, which is the first comparison of native and invasive lionfish, is the result of teamwork, and an excellent example of the kind of science we can be doing if we help each other. This would have been impossible to achieve without all my co-authors and collaborators. Thank you all!</div>
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And to those of you reading this blog, you can find my paper at:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Pterois volitans</em>, the invader of my affections</td></tr>
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Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-30903280571893896802012-10-22T17:37:00.000-07:002012-10-22T17:37:27.484-07:00Caught Infraganti!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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My awesome lab mate Stevie L. just gave me the best present ever. A folder with pictures that make me look amazing when I think I am just being silly looking mesmerized at the fishes I study and which fuel my scientific curiosity. He has such a photographic talent. I am lucky to be able to use his images for my talks, which always make them better, as my audience can just go: wow! and feel like they want to be in just that place. A captivated audience is a won audience. Thanks Stevie L.<br />
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But anyways, the purpose of this post is to share this picture which I thought was funny and has a story. What happened? Well I was having serious buyonacy issues at the Abrolhos, diving with a new 5mm wetsuit, with a leak in my BCD and doing some real shallow dives. So I remembered my friend Coro in the Philippines who would stuff his dive belt with all kinds of rocks to keep stable. And here I am, carrying pieces of rubble to keep my cool and perform the task I was sent to do: collect coral samples for my friend Luke. So all you divers out there, having buoyancy issues? Grab a rock would you? Just be mindful of when and where you let it go!Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-87499938589154583772012-10-11T00:44:00.000-07:002012-10-11T17:50:13.557-07:00Amazed at the Abrolhos<br />
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Talk about beauty and remoteness and relatively untouched areas where nature thrives.<br />
Impossible in this day and age?<br />
Well think again! The Abrolhos Islands about 80 km offshore in central Western Australia is a taste of such paradise. Not only that, it is a unique area where corals and kelp trhive together, in a series of unique ecosystems between tropical and temperate, maintained by warm water currents flowing southwards along the coast.<br />
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On board the "Reel Affair" a lovely ship with amazing staff hailing from my new neighborhood the lovely Freo, I travelled to the Abrolhos as part of a research team led by postgraduate researcher Luke Thomas, who is studying patterns of coral connectivity in the area. I was lucky to be selected by Luke to take coral samples during this trip, in which aside from doing my job as a research assistant, I got to suss out potential study sites for looking at the behavior of baldchin groper, one of the species I will be looking at as part of my doctoral thesis on the popualtion ecology of tuskfishes.<br />
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The Houtman Abrolhos is baldie heaven and I must now find the way to make it a study site. Tough life being a marine biologist is it not?<br />
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Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-400086207468338652012-09-29T18:27:00.005-07:002012-09-29T18:27:52.588-07:00Destellos submarinosEs como brilla,<br />
como viniendo desde abajo,<br />
desde la profundidad<br />
formando un abanico en forma de destello,<br />
brillante.<br />
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Destello que hipnotiza y enloquece.<br />
Destello que tranquiliza.<br />
Destello oh destello tu, que sigo en mi imaginación hoy día.Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-75007507893400100762012-09-27T22:02:00.000-07:002012-09-27T22:02:44.273-07:00Hard work finally pays off: Viva Turneffe MPA!!!<span style="font-size: small;">After years of looking forward to this news, I finally open my email to find it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Turneffe Atoll has been declared a marine protected area. Not just any protected area, but the largest marine reserve in the whole of Belize. A major victory and one in which I had the pleasure to be involved in as part of workshops with The Nature Conservancy, while working for the Oceanic Society at Blackbird Caye.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">How I hope to see <span style="font-size: small;">those big and beautiful <i>Scarus guacamaia</i> swimming once more in large groups at The Canyons. Thank you Belize Fisheries Department, local fishermen, Oceanic Society and Turneffe Atoll Trust!!!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turneffe is a beautiful place, a unique mixture of mangrove, reef, seagrass beds and coral reefs, much in need of management following increases in ilegal fishing and plans for development. The atoll holds healthy populations of fish, mammals, birds and reptiles, inlcuding resident populations of bottlenose dolphins and saltwater crocodiles</span>. It is a paradise for snorkelers, recreational fishers and anyone seeking to immerse into the beauty only Belize can offer. And now, you Betta Belize It!!! Turneffe Atoll has protection status and its beauty has just gotten a million more chances to remain for all of you and hopefully me, to one day once more see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Enjoy some of my favorite vistas during my lucky and very happy years there.</span><br />
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Passion.<br />
For some people it is non-existent. For others, it is a life driver, something without which life becomes meaningless. For latins it is inherent to the blood flow, it provides rythm to the palpitations of hearts that dance to the sound of a million drums.<br />
For me, a large part of that passion comes from the sea. From looking at fishes: big and small, drab and colorful, fast and slow, shy and bold. A million stories from one snorkel.<br />
I just got back from my first trip to Ningaloo, one of the most pristine reefs my eyes have seen.<br />
A great study site, a passion driver and a great camera frame. So video-making to share my research outcomes, here I come. <span id="goog_168501473"></span><span id="goog_168501474"></span>Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3298106469131816225.post-11898167443228693082012-07-02T18:55:00.002-07:002012-07-02T18:55:42.299-07:00Sabias palabras de E.O. Wilson<object width="526" height="374"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param><param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012P/Blank/EOWilson_2012P-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/EOWilson_2012P-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1485&lang=en&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=e_o_wilson_advice_to_young_scientists;year=2012;theme=how_we_learn;theme=listening_to_teachers;event=TEDMED+2012;tag=TED+Prize;tag=education;tag=failure;tag=math;tag=science;tag=storytelling;tag=student;tag=success;tag=youth;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="526" height="374" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2012P/Blank/EOWilson_2012P-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/EOWilson_2012P-embed.jpg&vw=512&vh=288&ap=0&ti=1485&lang=en&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=e_o_wilson_advice_to_young_scientists;year=2012;theme=how_we_learn;theme=listening_to_teachers;event=TEDMED+2012;tag=TED+Prize;tag=education;tag=failure;tag=math;tag=science;tag=storytelling;tag=student;tag=success;tag=youth;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"></embed></object>Katherine Curehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16428243391598516609noreply@blogger.com0