Who is Sylvia Earle
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Sylvia Earle - Deep Sea Explorer and Ocean Conservationist
Sylvia Earle, often known as "Her Deepness," is a marine scientist, author, and former chief of the NOAA who holds the record for walking untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other person. She has also been recognized by the Library of Congress as a Living Legend.
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Amazon Price: $4.42 (as of 02/17/2012)![]()
Amazon calls this book, "an enthusiastic celebration of that diversity and abundance. It's also a profoundly sobering account of the shortsighted human assault on ocean life." For me, one of the most sobering parts of the book was when Earle compared the food/energy required to make a pound of beef (20 lbs of plants consumed per pound of body weight for a year-old cow) vs. the food/energy required for a pound of bluefin tuna (thousands of pounds of fish that consumed thousands of pounds of smaller fish, which in turn consumed thousands of pounds of plants). It puts everything in perspective.
A fascinating read I recommend!
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Seafood to Avoid
Seafood to Avoid
Caviar, Sturgeon (Imported)
Chilean Seabass
Cod, Atlantic
Conch, Queen
Corvina, Gulf (Gulf of California)
Crab, King (Imported)
Crayfish (Imported farmed)
Dogfish shark
Eel, Freshwater
Flounder, Soles (Atlantic)
Grenadier (U.S. Pacific)
Groupers (U.S. Atlantic, U.S. Gulf of Mexico)
Groupers (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Haddock (trawl-caught)
Hake, White
Halibut, Atlantic
Halibut, California (set gillnet)
Lobster, Spiny (Caribbean imported)
Mahi Mahi / Dolphinfish (Imported longline)
Marlin, Blue (Imported)
Marlin, Striped
Monkfish
Monkfish liver
Octopus (sushi)
Orange Roughy
Plaice, American
Pompano, Florida
Rockfish (trawl-caught)
Salmon (farmed)
Salmon Roe (farmed)
Sea Turtles
Sea Urchin (Maine)
Shark
Shrimp (Imported farmed)
Shrimp (Imported wild-caught)
Skates
Snapper, Pink (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Red (U.S. Gulf of Mexico)
Snapper, Red (Imported)
Snapper, Red (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Ruby (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Vermilion (U.S.)
Spearfish, Shortbill (Imported)
Sturgeon (Imported wild-caught)
Swordfish (Imported)
Tilapia (China, Taiwan farmed)
Tilefish, Blueline (U.S. Gulf of Mexico, U.S. South Atlantic)
Tilefish, Golden (U.S. Gulf of Mexico, U.S. South Atlantic)
Totoaba (Gulf of California)
Trout, Lake (Lake Huron, Lake Michigan)
Tuna, Albacore (Worldwide except Hawaii longline)
Tuna, Bigeye (Worldwide except U.S. Atlantic longline)
Tuna, Bluefin
Tuna, Skipjack (Imported longline)
Tuna, Yellowfin (longline)
Yellowtail (Australia farmed)
Yellowtail (Japan farmed)
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Sylvia Earle Links
Read more about this amazing advocate of the seas
- Academy of Achievement - Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
- National Geographic - Explorers in Residence: Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer
- The My Hero Project - Explorer Hero - Sylvia Earle
- About.com - Sylvia Earle Queen of the Deep
- Answers.com - Biography: Sylvia A. Earle
- Dive Global - Famous Divers: Sylvia Earle
- Literati.net - About the Author, Sylvia A. Earle
- CNN - Heroes for the Planet: Her Deepness
- Library of Congress - Living Legends: Sylvia Earle
News About Our Oceans
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Pics of our beautiful seas the Sylvia Earle explores and helps protect
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Jan 24, 2012 @ 3:33 pm | delete
- I have such great admiration for Sylvia Earle. She is an amazing person who has truly made so many important contributions. May we all join in spirit and action with her to save our world's oceans.
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tlryder
May 18, 2011 @ 7:05 pm | delete
- Thanks for this awesome woman scientist lens.
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Morgan Sosenka
Apr 1, 2010 @ 1:29 pm | delete
- tat was so awsome.... doing a report 4 skewl on Sylvia Earle... ^_^
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Jan 26, 2010 @ 12:50 pm | delete
- i luve sylivia! WOO
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- I have to do a project on Sylvia Earle
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