Andrew Thaler @DrAndrewThaler@oceansocial.us
Marine science and conservation consultant with Blackbeard Biologic. Human impacts in the deep sea, education and exploration, and open-source instrumentation.
- Southern Fried Science
- http://www.southernfriedscience.com/
- Oceanography for Everyone
- http://oceanographyforeveryone.com/
- Blackbeard Biologic
- http://www.blackbeardbiologic.com/
I've created my own Mastodon instance.
I have posted nothing. No one else is in it. It is unfederated.
I have found digital paradise.
The big thing to remember is that nothing in Deep-sea Mining is a pure mining play. A lot of it is about developing territorial claims over the high seas, developing licensable technologies, and reputation management.
A lot of people are getting rich in an industry that has never brought an ounce of ore to market.
Lot's more news coming in about Nautilus's ship contract. Hard to say what the next steps are, but I suspect the Chinese government will probably by the defaulted contract.
Nautilus notified of rescission of shipbuilding contract: https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/nautilus-notified-of-rescission-of-shipbuilding-contract/
Nautilus contractor MAC loses shipbuilding contract: https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/nautilus-contractor-mac-loses-shipbuilding-contract/
Whoa.
Nautilus Minerals defaults on shipbuilding contract, loses production support vessel.
Paging @anthonomics.
http://www.mining.com/nautilus-minerals-tanks-shipbuilding-contract-cancellation/
Pushing scholarly #publishing toward a 100% #openaccess model. https://aeon.co/ideas/scholarly-publishing-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it
This Aeon article includes discussion on improving the way peer review, etc. works. The author (Tennant) says" "All of the technology and traits to build a hybridised scholarly commons infrastructure already exists. It is up to academic communities themselves to step away from their apathy and towards a fairer and more democratic system for sharing our knowledge and work."
Somehow I managed to lose 5 pounds during #IMCC5, which is a nice change of pace from my usual sloth and gluttony approach to scientific meetings.
During IMCC5, @speakupforblue did a whole season of podcasts. Some of my favorites include:
Episode 1: Kuching Cat Museum - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6sNEzA61YrqTCwAD5MH2DA
Episode 2: The International Marine Kids Conference - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IlTBFjz01qgvzJwKM4Zmu
Episode 5: IUCN MPA Standards With Angelo Villagomez - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sagb9ZbC3GU3nSOdCa7yA
Episode 7: Make For The Planet With Alex Dehgan - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IrNjyTuHeDYqjCdjQAMmo
And there's a whole heap more coming!
I met a monkey and we are friends now.
Checked Chek Jawa off my bucket list today. This wildlife park is one of Singapore's last wild places. I've wanted to get out there for over a decade and today I got to hike the island with extraordinary naturalist Ivan Kwan, who I've known online for a decade and finally met in person yesterday.
More people have walked on the Moon than have visited the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
More robots have crawled across the face of Mars than have explored our deepest oceans.
#IMCC5 is great for galvanizing change both large and small.
One of the conference favorite restaurants is Indah. After a week of delegates asking to "hold the straw" and having their kids attend the kids conference, the management decided to switch to only offering straws on request.
It's a small thing but a great reminder that, above all, conservationists should lead by example.
Over the last half decade, Patima Tungpuchayakul has risked her life saving over 3,000 enslaved workers in the Thai and Southeast Asian seafood industry. She is the 2018 Jairo Sandoval Courage in Conservation awardee.
Every two years we present the Jairo Award for courage in ocean conservation. Jairo Mora Sandoval was murdered by poachers while working to protect sea turtles in Costa Rica.
It is a reminder to us all that the real price for conservation is paid in blood.
bots of the world, unite! you have nothing to lose but your markov chains!
We built a 3D printer in the middle of an ocean conservation conference and it was awesome! #IMCC5
What questions do you have about #make4theplanet Borneo?
Oceansocial.us is the only place where #IMCC5 delegates can use the new 
and 
emojis. #oceansonline.
The biggest bottleneck in coral reef restoration is in physically attaching aquaculture grown corals to the reef. Lots of dive time for little result. Can we make it faster?
Outplanting coral reefs at #make4theplanet Borneo. Ripe for technological innovation.
"We do two things in conservation really well. We monitor change and we quantify what is lost."
That's not good enough.
The Fifth International Marine Conservation Congress, and the first to be hosted in the southern hemisphere, begins today in Borneo!
Follow along with #IMCC5 and our satellite event, Make for the Planet Borneo!
This tough little Printrbot has been tortured all over the world, including to sea to support the first #OpenCTD prototypes. Now it's in Borneo for #make4theplanet at #IMCC5.
Just keep printing, just keep printing...
