Hey, remember that ridiculously ambitious and overlong Kevin Costner vehicle, Waterworld? In which the entire globe is covered by water as a result of global warming and humanity is thrown into a post-apocalyptic wasteland of floating cities beseiged by nouveau-pirates? Well, this edition of Nature Blog Networking is just like that, ridiculously ambitious, overlong, and vaguely concerning the ocean. No word yet on pirates, but anything is possible.
It’s been nearly a year and half since this series took on the wonderful assortment of marine blogs in the NBN. At the time there were few, but in the time since the number has grown as the Network has grown taking in marine bloggers from around the world in such numbers that I can’t even fit them all into one post. So taking a lesson from Costner’s folly, I’m splitting them into two weeks so you all don’t get the bends from taking in too many marine blogs. That’s the NBN difference, folks.
Underwater mountains! photo from wikipedia
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- With the Olympics in full swing, it’s only appropriate that we open things up with some international flavor. Vista el Mar is based in Spain, a Euro nature blog hub, an can rightly be considered the top Spanish language marine blog in the world. We’re glad to have it in our community.
- Miriam of The Oyster’s Garter recently up and vamoosed to new digs at Deep Sea News, but if you want to see the kind of writing that got her that deserved promotion, her archives are still available.
- On cold winter days, the last think you probably want to be reminded of is that there are some folks, perhaps in the Caribbean, who bask oceanside in sunshine every day. Bahama Louie is one of those people. Season with envy as needed.
- I’m always amazed by phenomenal photographers. The amazement increases exponentially when faced with a phenomenal underwater photographer. Set browsers to stun before visiting My Underwater Life.
- Singapore, being an island, offers abundant opportunities for marine ecosystem, and the Tide Chaser takes good advantage of life on this particular island, where nature still exists in the midst of great development.
- Thriving Oceans is a great looking blog filled with useful facts and informed commentary about the state of oceans, particularly as it applies to conservation and policy.
- Mark Powell is not only a blogger in his own right at Blogfish, but creator of the long-running Carnival of the Blue. Speaking of which, you have your submission ready, right?
- Marine enthusiasts can focus on animal life at the expense of the rest, but never let it be said that the plants don’t also have their fans. Team Seagrass has that avenue covered but good.
- Australia is well-known around the world for its amazing marine ecosystems. The NBN offers a window into that fabulous world at Chai’s Marine Life Blog.
- RTSea Blog is another sharp-looking marine site chock-full of fascinating and useful information about the other 75% of the earth and the policies that effect it. There’s just so much good stuff about how we use the sea out there, we’re lucky so much of it is associated with the NBN.
- And last, my fellow Carolinians at Southern Fried Scientist, whose blog is a mix of funny and topical of the sort you’d expect from scientists who intentionally coat themselves in a light batter and dip themselves in oil.
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The rest come next week. Will the pirates show up then? Who knows, I guess you’ll have to wait and see…
