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	<title>Marine Science Today &#187; Marine Biology</title>
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		<title>Five Critically Endangered Irrawaddy Dolphins Found Dead</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/07/06/five-critically-endangered-irrawaddy-dolphins-found-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/07/06/five-critically-endangered-irrawaddy-dolphins-found-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayeyarwady River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critically endangered marine species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolphin habitate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dolphins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irrawaddy dolphin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Myanmar Department of Fisheries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orcaella]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month a total of five Irrawaddy dolphins were found dead on the banks of the Ayeyarwady River  in Burma, a group that is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.]]></description>
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		<title>Miami&#8217;s Rosenstiel School Launches Oil Spill Info Web Page</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/05/27/miamis-rosenstiel-school-launches-oil-spill-info-web-page/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/05/27/miamis-rosenstiel-school-launches-oil-spill-info-web-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 19:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Oceanography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BP oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deepwater Horizon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Mexico oil exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf oil spill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine education websites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine life in oil spill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine &#38; Atmospheric Science  has launched a new “Oil Spill” web page http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/oil-spill/ designed to share the science being conducted at the Rosenstiel School that is relevant to the issues emerging from the incident on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform. Designed for use by teachers, students and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC World Finds a Great Win 7 Theme Pack for Ocean Lovers</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/05/27/pc-world-finds-a-great-win-7-theme-pack-for-ocean-lovers/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/05/27/pc-world-finds-a-great-win-7-theme-pack-for-ocean-lovers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine themes for computers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ocean photos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PC World Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7 Screensaver]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PC World magazine regularly reviews new screensavers and theme packs and they&#8217;ve found one that has some great HD images of marine life for your Windows 7 computer.  Check out the review by Kim Saccio-Kent and use the download link on this PC World page. The author of the theme is Windows-7-Themes. Some cool stuff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Ocean Now Home to World&#8217;s Largest Marine Reserve</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/04/22/indian-ocean-now-home-to-worlds-largest-marine-reserve/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/04/22/indian-ocean-now-home-to-worlds-largest-marine-reserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Oceanography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archipelago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chagos Conservation Trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chagos Islands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Just recently the United Kingdom established the world&#8217;s largest marine reserve.  The reserve is a 210,000 square mile area (545,000 square kilometers) in the Indian Ocean encompassing the Chagos Islands.  British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that this reserve &#8220;doubles the global coverage of the world&#8217;s oceans under protection,&#8221; and says that its creation is &#8220;a major step [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Killer Whales Eat Only One Kind of Salmon</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/04/08/endangered-killer-whales-only-eat-only-one-kind-of-salmon/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/04/08/endangered-killer-whales-only-eat-only-one-kind-of-salmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada's Species at Risk Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinook salmon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraser river]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NOAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Ocean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[souther resident killer whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Endangered Species Act]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marinesciencetoday.com/?p=2881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a report released on March 15, NOAA announced that new advances in genetic testing have allowed scientists to determine the origin of the Chinook salmon that are consumed by a group of endangered killer whales in the inland waters of Washington and British Columbia.  This group of killer whales, known to scientists as the Southern Resident [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA Tracking Program Verifies Truth of &#8220;Dolphin-Safe&#8221; Label</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/03/16/noaa-tracking-program-verifies-truth-of-dolphin-safe-label/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2010/03/16/noaa-tracking-program-verifies-truth-of-dolphin-safe-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Jacobson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dolphin-safe tuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Marine Fisheries Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TTVP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuna Tracking and Verification Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tuna-dolphin issue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen the &#8220;dolphin-safe&#8221; labels on the tuna products we buy, but how do we know if that tuna was actually caught in a dolphin-safe way?  NOAA Fisheries Service&#8217;s Sustainable Fisheries Division operates the Tuna Tracking and Verification Program (TTVP) designed to determine the truthfulness of the &#8220;dolphin-safe&#8221; labels on tuna products.  This year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Helps Scientists Trace Shark Fins</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/31/dna-helps-scientists-trace-shark-fins/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/31/dna-helps-scientists-trace-shark-fins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CITES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demian Chapman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Harvey Research Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hammerhead shark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IUCN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journal Endangered Species Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmood Shivji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mitochondrial DNA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nova Southeastern University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Save Our Seas Shark Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scalloped hammerhead shark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shark finning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stony Brook University]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groundbreaking new DNA research has, for the first time, traced scalloped hammerhead shark fins from the burgeoning Hong Kong market all the way back to the sharks’ geographic origin.  In some cases the fins were found to come from endangered populations thousands of miles away, which points the way to a better protection of these sharks from the international trade.]]></description>
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		<title>Steller Sea Lion Numbers Still Declining In Some Areas</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/28/steller-sea-lion-numbers-still-declining-in-some-areas/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/28/steller-sea-lion-numbers-still-declining-in-some-areas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2009 count of Steller sea lions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska Fisheries Science Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alaska stock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alleutian Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[declining numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gulf of Alaska sea lion stock]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[northern elephant seal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sea lion protection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center have published the results of their 2009 count of Steller sea lion pups in Alaska, which shows improvement in some areas and further decline in numbers in others. ]]></description>
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		<title>Timor Sea Oil Spill Aftermath</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/02/timor-sea-oil-spill-aftermath/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/12/02/timor-sea-oil-spill-aftermath/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AMSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia oil spill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[x Timor Sea oil spill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of fishermen and seaweed farmers are seeking compensation for their losses from West Atlas oil rig leak.]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Effort to Protect Endangered Blue Whale Underway</title>
		<link>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/11/23/legal-effort-to-protect-endangered-blue-whale-underway/</link>
		<comments>http://marinesciencetoday.com/2009/11/23/legal-effort-to-protect-endangered-blue-whale-underway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue whale protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Whale Recovery Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue whales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Biological Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endangered Species Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends of the Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marine mammal ship strikes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Marine Fisheries Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pacific Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Marine Fisheries Service, the agency charged with the stewardship of the U.S.'s living marine resources, may be sued for failure to implement the 1998 Blue Whale Recovery Plan. Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment and the Center of Biological Diversity have joined the notice of intent to sue submitted by the Environmental Defense Center last week. ]]></description>
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