The Night of the Palolo
Microdocs Journal – Ofu Island, American Samoa The Night of the Palolo by Dan Griffin If you were a palolo worm burrowed deep into a south pacific reef, you’d be waiting for one special night. A night that we had traveled to see on Ofu, one of the Manu’a Islands of American Samoa, to shoot [...]
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Microdoc’s Short Attention Span Science Videos — $24.95 + S/H Order Volume 1 — Get Volume 2 FREE 32 (3-min.) videos Starred reviews in Library school Journal and Booklist Meets CA Science Curriculum Standards Hosted by Dr. Steve Palumbi, Director of the Stanford University Hopkins Marine Station Coral Reefs. What sustains them? How do they [...]
Ocean Babies On Acid – The Time Machine
In this experiment, scientists create a time machine in the lab to take the ocean babies to the ocean of the future. What happens to the delicate larvae of ocean creatures when they are exposed to increasing acid levels in the ocean? Stanford University and Bodega Marine Lab scientists conduct an experiment on how acidity [...]
Stanford Magazine Cover Story
The Comeback Corals Dan Griffin’s photography illustrates Stanford Magazine’s cover story on coral research on the island of Ofu in American Samoa. The story, which focuses on how corals might survive global warming, is accompanied by a Microdocs™ video. Download Magazine Layout Robot Tidepools Video Explore the Microdocs series.
Tuna and the Can
How do you protect a fish that crisscrosses oceans? The fishers of Pohnpei Island use the feeding patterns of seabirds to spot tuna. Commercial tuna fishers use a modern version of this method — helicopters. Overfishing puts some tuna populations at risk of collapse. Saving these fish is made more difficult by the great distances [...]
Antarctic Minke Whales
In this piece Steve explains a new study disputing post-whaling population for Antarctic Minke Whales. An ongoing debate in the management of Antarctic minke whales concerns whether they are more abundant now than a century ago. Using genetic analysis, scientists project the number of whales that swam in the waters of Antarctica and are testing [...]
