A day late – sorry, folks! I hit the wrong button when I posted this yesterday, and didn’t check the blog to make sure it had gone up.
If you have news, event or classified listings that you want to share with the NBN community, send your info to me for posting on the community board, to get the word out to everyone! Submissions can be sent to sanderling [at] symbiotic [dot] ca, with the subject line “NBN Bulletin Board”. Don’t forget to include your blog’s name and URL. The weekly board will be posted every Sunday.
NBN News
Our dedicated Wren has asked that I let readers know that she is attending the BlogHer conference this weekend and has had limited internet time which means it may take a little longer than usual for her to respond to your emails, or get your pins up on the NBN map (which, if you haven’t sent in your info for, you should do, it just takes a second to fire off an email with your blog name and hometown!). Thanks for your patience!
Web Events
On Sunday, August 2, a group of researchers will be departing San Diego for the North Pacific Gyre in order to study and quantify the Great Garbage Patch. SEAPLEX (Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition) is a collaboration between the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the nonprofit Project Kaisei. Miriam Goldstein, a graduate student on the project, will be blogging and twittering the experiences and observations made during the trip. You can follow along at the expedition’s blog, or at their twitter account, @seaplexscience. “We would love it if you would consider blogging or tweeting about our expedition. Not only will this make poor soggy graduate students very happy, but it will help to fulfill the primary purpose of this voyage – to provide quantitative data on a widely publicized (and widely misunderstood) issue, and to share our love of the ocean with a broad audience.
Meet-ups and Field Trips
Connie of Birds O’ The Morning is organizing a Birds And Brews meet-up in Delta, Colorado, on August 6 (Thursday evening). For more information on location and to RSVP, visit Connie’s post.
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Community Causes – what our members are supporting
Rob Ripma of The Nutty Birder shares with us a campaign by Dawn Dish Soap. For many years Dawn has been the product of choice used in helping clean up birds and other wildlife affected by oil spills. Now Dawn is launching a new packaging campaign whereby they will donate $1 for every packaging code entered to help save marine life. For more information, visit Rob’s post.
Contests and Promotions
Amber of Birder’s Lounge also reminds members that her photo ID challenge and Do Something! (Good) campaign are always ongoing. Some great causes benefit from both of these, so swing by and participate, if you haven’t already!
