The Ocean Project
A design lab
Jon Isherwood
Betsy Sherman
Websites
Geophysical processes
- Sculpting the earth
- Sonar of seafloor
- The engine that drives the earth
- Mid-oceanic ridges
Environments and Ecology
- Marine ecosystems:
- Seafloor vents
- Mangrove communities
- What are coral reefs
- Reef fish populations open or closed
- Deep sea
- Saving New Orleans
- Krill, currents and sea ice
- Mid water
Marine Life
- Life in the ocean
- Uprooting the tree of life
- The origin of animal body plans: 1) Scientific american paper, 2) NY Times article
- Evolution of life on the seafloor
- The ocean's invisible forest
- Color of reef fish
- Echinoderms body plans
- Killer whales and marine mammals
- Manatees
- Ocean microbes
- Slime hag
- Shark's electric sense
- Life's rocky start
- Transparent animals-marine
Pollution
Problems affecting marine biodiversity
- Overfishing
- Ode to a codfish
- Coral reef bleaching
- Coral reef degradation
- Fishkilling in reefs
- Marine fish pop collapse
- Counting the last fish
- Reviving marine dead zones
- U.S. ocean fish recovery
- Confronting the coral reef crisis
- Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services
Climate and Oceans
- Defusing global warming
- Climate change and marine plankton
- Coral reef extinction risk
- Climate change and marine plankton
- Climate change and biological invasions
- Climate change and fish
Law, ethics, politics
- Launching a sea ethic
- Law and the sea
- U.N. Resolution: Oceans and law of the sea
- Website:
- U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy: An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century
- House Resolution 21:
- Ocean commissions
- Marine Protected Areas
- : Navy vs. Natural Resources Defense Council
- by Garrett Hardin - one of the original clarion calls to action in the environment
Environmental Concerns
Eve Mosher, high water line:
Marina Zurkow (several projects about rising water levels, animated/video etc.)
Michael Mandiberg, oil standard and the real costs, firefox plugin:
Natalie Jeremijenko, environmental health clinic:
Exhibitions
Eyebeam has a sustainable research group, they did the exhibition feedback (many links)
Smart Museum in Chicago, Beyond Green exhibition cat.:
Exit Arts "Social-Environmental Aesthetics" series (SEA):