Coastal Ecology - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/coastal-ecology/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:37:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Coastal Ecology - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/tag/coastal-ecology/ 32 32 103504436 It takes a(n Embera) village https://houstonnewmedia.org/it-takes-an-embera-village/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-takes-an-embera-village Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:37:55 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32776 Editor’s Note: Dr. Dan Brooks, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology recounts recent adventures off the shores of Panama with local fishermen of the Embera people. In my last blog, I discussed a recent trip to a remote, pristine part of Panama, just north of t...

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]]> 636752 Feisty ‘Sea Lions’ Get Some Giant-Screen Love in the Newest Film to Debut at HMNS https://houstonnewmedia.org/feisty-sea-lions-get-some-giant-screen-love-in-the-newest-film-to-debut-at-hmns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feisty-sea-lions-get-some-giant-screen-love-in-the-newest-film-to-debut-at-hmns Wed, 08 Jun 2022 21:55:26 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32385 It’s fitting that as director Paul Phelan speaks to us from the windswept, idyllic west coast of Ireland, decompressing with his family between film projects, one of his children will soon leave the nest. “Sea Lions: Life by a Whisker,” his newest natu...

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]]> 345076 Seashell Queen Reveals Most Common Treasures Found on Texas Beaches https://houstonnewmedia.org/seashell-queen-reveals-most-common-treasures-found-on-texas-beaches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=seashell-queen-reveals-most-common-treasures-found-on-texas-beaches Mon, 23 May 2022 14:53:09 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32303 As the Associate Curator of Malacology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Tina Petway is our resident queen of the seas. At 75 years young, the native Texan has spent her whole life walking along the nearly 3,400 miles of the Texas Gulf Coast sh...

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]]> 330660 HELIUM BALLOONS ARE KILLING MARINE LIFE IN THE THOUSANDS https://houstonnewmedia.org/helium-balloons-are-killing-marine-life-in-the-thousands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=helium-balloons-are-killing-marine-life-in-the-thousands Thu, 19 May 2022 20:35:43 +0000 https://blog.hmns.org/?p=32290 Written by Tina Petway, Associate Curator of Malacology and Marine Invertebrates While we all love to watch things fly up into the sky such as helium balloons, we do not see them when they eventually come back to earth.  Unfortunately for marine and la...

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