The Last Ocean: Peter Young at TEDxAuckland

Links :

• YouTube : Last Ocean Official Trailer with Reviews

How to feed the world & save the oceans: Andy Sharpless (Oceana) at TEDxSF

Andy Sharpless CEO, Oceana puts forth a compelling story on feeding the exploding planetary population and saving the Oceans, and how we can't bring the same conservation mindset to the sea that we did to the land.

Tracking a super storm

Hurricane Sandy's near-surface winds are visible in this NASA GEOS-5
global atmosphere model computer simulation that runs from Oct. 26 to Oct. 31, 2012.

The model works by dividing Earth's atmosphere into a virtual grid of stacked boxes.

A supercomputer then solves mathematical equations inside each box to create a weather forecast predicting Sandy's structure, path and other traits.

The NASA model not only produced an accurate track of Sandy, but also captured fine-scale details of the storm's changing intensity and winds.

First map of American History

First Map, or, Map of 1578 to Accompany Willard's History of the United States
Emma Willard, “First” Map of American History

see David Rumsey collection

“Willard’s second map in the atlas marked the earliest voyages to America, and took pains to represent change over time. Note the inclusion of failed voyages and settlements.”

Links :

• How maps become modern

Pollution of Indonesian waters on full display in surf photos

 Local Indonesian ripper, Dede Suryana, dodging a hefty lip and the unfortunate byproduct of human beings.

Photo: Noyle

From PSFK

Once known for its pristine beaches, Untung Jawa Island, just an hour ride from Jakarta, is now known as ‘trash island’ with hundreds of tons of plastic, styrofoam, and the occasional dead body washing ashore, according to The Asia Sentinel.
Indonesia is a paradise for surfers that travel to remote islands to surf perfect waves but the idilic scenario you’d expect is ruined here with the repulsive debris floating around like the native fauna.

After flights, layovers, car rides, and boat trips, things got serious somewhere in Indonesia.

Photo: Noyle

Hawaiian based surf photographer Zak Noyle captured in stunning shots of how the ocean swell brought massive surges of trash when he was shooting Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya in a remote bay near Java.

Bede Durbide, all style in the tube.

Photo: Noyle

Tourism is the country’s fifth-largest foreign currency earner and in danger of being ruined by the polluted ‘Wonderful Indonesia’ image.
This was a dangerous shoot because there were large objects in the water, including tree trunks, Noyle said to Surfer Magazine.
“But it was worthwhile because of the international response generated by the images.”