by Eike | Mar 8, 2014 | News | Conservation
Good morning Friend, I trust this message finds you well. I guess you are reading this, because you have an intrinsic interest for the ocean, so maybe you’ll find this bit of of information useful. It will not repeat the word intrinsic, I just think it sounds...
by Eike | Feb 22, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
Hauke Schwieder, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (2011, edited in 2014) In “little” Words A lot of nutrients can be bad for slow growing corals. Their “arch-enemy”, algae, love it and they use it to grow even faster than usual. Like...
by Eike | Feb 7, 2014 | Big Science - Little Words
The state of eutrophication and overfishing in the Samui Archipelago, lower Gulf of Thailand Eike Schoenig1, Hauke Schwieder2, Susanne Pusch2, Panthanee Pengsakghun3, Kai Vetter4, Emma Shaw3 1: CORE sea, Thailand; 2: Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology,...
by Eike | Mar 22, 2013 | News | Conservation
Remember Yertle the Turtle? A few weeks ago we were unfortunate enough to meet. Yertle got her left flipper in a net, and was delivered to CORE sea, by the caring crew of Sail Rock Divers. Together with Phangan Animal Care (PAC) and the Veterinarian in Ban Tai, we...
by Eike | Mar 7, 2013 | Big Science - Little Words, stand up for reason
After we posted the article about the history of the Gulf of Thailand (read here), we were asked a couple of very good questions. The questions are quite fundamental and philosophical in nature, but let’s see if we can get them sorted. When were there 100%...
