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Please consider submitting and/or attending the International Symposium and Workshop on Ecological and Economic Sustainable Crustacean Fisheries, where I will join other experts from diverse fields to discuss the fascinating and dynamic world of crustacean markets, which in my humble opinion provide a wonderful lens into larger workings of our changing climate and the economic [ ]
Natural changes in the landscape One of the most striking features of the Wadden Sea is the constant transformation of the landscape driven by the tides. Because the sea is so shallow these changes are not subtle: within just hours, areas that were previously deep enough for sailing would re-emerge as vast sandbanks. Standing on [ ]
In all things 19th Century that we are living through once again in the recreation of unbridled greed and industrial concentration, the newly announced H1B visa fees fit squarely in the mold. The administration has said that big tech is behind the move, and why shouldn t they be? Here we have Netflix chairman and co-founder [ ]
In 2024, Snow Crab scientists from the Atlantic and Pacific gathered in St. John s Newfoundland to share insights on how crabs were faring with climate changes and differing fishing pressures. Here is the report of all the great science!! Gordon H. Kruse, Raquel Ruiz-Diaz, Timothy Loher, Benjamin J. Daly (2025). Report of the 2024 Snow [ ]
One part of yesterday s (Monday, Aug 25, 2025) oval office press conference focused on a core of my research: aquatic invasive species. He definitely muddied the waters, confusing Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer with someone named Kristi Whitman (perhaps he was thinking of the former governor of NJ and head of the EPA, Christine Todd Whitman, [ ]
The US Postal Service has a mission that reflects the importance of correspondence and sharing information, as shown here: The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, [ ]
Amidst the chaos, work continues. The crabs march on, in a new paper out with co-authors from the now-completed PICO (Participatory modelling of integrated ecosystem based management regime for invasive crabs) Project. As in most of my discussions of the crab invasions in the Barents Sea, I would argue that these ecosystem disruptors provide insights [ ]
Orwell, with his insight into the essential authoritarian command to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears, continues in the role of prophet in this week s performance of You can t make this sh*t up, a story of the end of American democracy. He s supported by George Lucas and Tony Gilroy, who respectively created and [ ]
My feed today included a travel story aimed at inducing me to go to Norway for a King Crab Safari shown in the photo here. It s not surprising such an ad showed up in my feed. I have researched the Red King Crab invasion in Norway and its growing use in the tourism industry [ ]
We have watched the horror that is the Administration’s great big monstrosity bill that will further impoverish millions of Americans progress in fits and starts through Congress, now to land on the president’s desk. At the same time the president is drooling over his new “alligator Alcatraz” facility. It’s impossible not to think of the [ ]