Sperm whales
topic of May 1 HRI Seminar
A professor from Texas A&M University in College Station,
Dr. Doug Biggs, will be be the featured speaker for the HRI Seminar
Series on Friday, May 1. His talk will be entitled,
“Physical and biological oceanographic habitat of sperm whales in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.”
HRI Seminars are held on Fridays at 3:30 pm in the HRI Conference Center 127.
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HRI staff, advisors attend Veracruz workshop
HRI Research Associate Dr. Jorge Brenner and four of HRI's
Advisory Council
 members
attended the Second Cuba-Mexico-US
Marine Sciences & Conservation Workshop held March 18-19 in Veracruz,
Mexico. They were part of a group of 28 Gulf of Mexico marine
scientists and managers to participate. The goal of the workshop was to gather
recommendations of actions to be included in a joint marine research and
conservation plan for the Gulf of Mexico.
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First volumes of Gulf publication available
Texas A&M University Press has
 released the first two volumes of a benchmark publication,
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. HRI Assistant Director Dr. Wes Tunnell, HRI Advisory Council Chair
Dr. Sylvia Earle and Dr. Darryl L. Felder
are the editors of what will result in a seven-volume series.
This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of
taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information.
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HRI Scientists play major role in Google Ocean
Scientists at HRI played a vital role in the creation of “Ocean
in Google Earth,” a new web-based interface that allows
HRI's Advisory Council Chair Dr. Sylvia Earle is featured in one of the new Google Ocean's introductory videos. |
users to soar over the ocean bottom, view videos and photographs of marine
life, watch the trajectories of marine animals tagged with satellite
transmitters or explore real-time measurements from oceanographic
buoys, among many other features. Dr. Tom Shirley and
Dr. Ian MacDonald
attended the roll-out of the new product to the media amid much
fanfare on February 2 in San Francisco at the new California
Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.
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HRI's Dixie
Smith creates interactive mosaic
HRI's Senior Executive Assistant Dixie Smith
spent the past two years putting together over 10,000
photographs to create a mosaic mural of Texas and the Gulf of
Mexico that will be hung at the Clotilde P. Garcia Public Library
in Corpus Christi. The mosaic is also available in an
interactive format on HRI's website.
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