“Limitless and immortal, the waters are the beginning and end of all things on earth.” – Heinrich Zimmer What’s greenish-grey, lives 600 meters beneath the ocean’s surface, and desperately needs to see an orthodontist? Give up? The answer, my friends,…
This blog piece is part of a new GDEP series, Back to Basics. In Back to Basics we will explore topics that you probably learned about at some point. Maybe it’s been a while and you’ve forgotten, or maybe you’d…
In February of this year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) came out with a PSA encouraging us to break up with what, for most of us, has been a long-term partner. This partner has carried our food, offered…
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” ~John Muir Many of our GDEP blog pieces to date have featured species-specific information or issues explicitly impacting marine organisms and systems.…
The ocean does a lot for us. On the heels of Giving Tuesday, consider incorporating these resources into your daily and weekly routine to help return the favor. It’s that season again. Holiday music is filling the air. Christmas…
GDEP team member, Talia Levine, recently had an article published in Georgia Health News. Her article, featured below, explores shared wildlife and human health risks surrounding a Superfund site on the Georgia coast. When pollutants escape into our waters, the…
“We need more water!” my nephew demands. I trudge into the ocean, neon-green plastic bucket in hand, to do as I’m told. My bucket disappears from view as I dip it beneath the waves, but it re-emerges, heavy with the…
Welcome to the Georgia Dolphin Ecology Program (GDEP) blog! As a research team devoted to the study of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), we spend countless hours on the water each year watching for dolphin fins to emerge. Our surveys…