1 June 2018 — Longing for beauty?
Sent 1 June 2018. Part of Little Blue Letter.
"You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop"
~ Rumi
You are the entire ocean in a drop"
~ Rumi
Longing for beauty?
You’ll find it in diatoms, single-cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells. The Diatomist is a marvellous short documentary on the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. You’ll also find it in the singing of whales and icebergs or the silence of the still ocean – hear them in the Alfred-Wegener Institut library of polar sounds.
Gif of the week 
Dogs are pure happiness. Ocean is happiness. Happiness everywhere.
Ocean opportunities
From the editor
Little Blue Letter was curated this week by Olga Mironenko. Olga will soon become a PhD student at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, Russia, researching microplastic pollution. She is also managing an environmental start-up and doing a research stay at GEOMAR, Germany, researching microplastic biofilm, European fisheries policy and sustainability game design. Suggestions/ideas/questions: mironenko.om@gmail.com
Editing etc. by Glen Wright. Glen is a researcher studying marine governance, the high seas, and ocean energy. He is a drinker of tea, lover of the sea, and an Oxford comma user. Glen recently published Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education.
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You’ll find it in diatoms, single-cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells. The Diatomist is a marvellous short documentary on the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. You’ll also find it in the singing of whales and icebergs or the silence of the still ocean – hear them in the Alfred-Wegener Institut library of polar sounds.
Gif of the week
Dogs are pure happiness. Ocean is happiness. Happiness everywhere. Ocean opportunities
- YOUMARES Conference for Young Marine Researchers will take place in Oldenburg, Germany in September 2018.
- An Ocean MOOC offered by GEOMAR (Germany) together with SDG Academy, will rune for the third time in Autumn. This year we are building an entire ocean youth community around it, so we are looking for youth initiatives in ocean sustainability and proactive people in different parts of the globe who would want to contribute to the course.
From the editor
- The 118 organisations of the NGO Tuna Forum have called on Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) to improve tuna management, requesting specific action on catch monitoring and control, bycatch limits, surveillance, and fish-aggregating devices (FADs).
- Congratulations to the winners of the Boat Magazine Ocean Awards 2018.
- The High Seas, What's at Stake? Conference on 21 June in Paris.
- New Zealand's Government dropped long-held plans to restrict deep sea trawling following aggressive industry lobbying.
- From 2000 to 2013, donors spent $340bn on SDG16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions). They spent just $2.7bn on SDG14.
Little Blue Letter was curated this week by Olga Mironenko. Olga will soon become a PhD student at Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow, Russia, researching microplastic pollution. She is also managing an environmental start-up and doing a research stay at GEOMAR, Germany, researching microplastic biofilm, European fisheries policy and sustainability game design. Suggestions/ideas/questions: mironenko.om@gmail.comEditing etc. by Glen Wright. Glen is a researcher studying marine governance, the high seas, and ocean energy. He is a drinker of tea, lover of the sea, and an Oxford comma user. Glen recently published Academia Obscura: The Hidden Silly Side of Higher Education.Little Blue Letter is a splash of uplifting ocean stuff, lovingly curated by young ocean leaders and shipped straight to your inbox every Friday. Pass it on, encourage other ocean lovers to sign up, and follow on Twitter
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