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Friday, February 27, 2009

Apple giving some Coral Love

Trying out the new Safari 4 from apple and I noticed at the top of the Apple Startpage a news item for:


Inverts in iTunes...Cool!

Monitoring the health of coral reefs on iTunes U
February 27, 2009
Dr. John Turner, an endocrinologist at the University of Toledo, has been studying the health of coral reef ecosystems, since 1997. “Reef Monitor…

I haven't had much of a chance to look at it yet, (saving it for the flight down to Ft. Lauderdale), but it looks like a nice outreach product on Coral Reef impacts and health monitoring by Reef Monitor and endocrinologist John Turner out of the University of Toledo. Collecting fish poop to help monitor and protect the cnidarians. Cool.

Is there anywhere that collects all the ocean related podcasts and iTunes resources? Invertebrates?

If you know of an audio/video podcast for either leave a comment.

1 comment:

  1. Eric,
    Thanks for noticing & posting our coral reef research mention on apple.com. we've had a welcome increase of visits on our site since the mention - www.reefmonitor.org and our itunes U ohio series is a #1 download this week. very best regards from reef monitor,
    Steve Sloan

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