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September 9th, 2009

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog.

I’ve named this site wild ocean blue after the personal website I ran for years (until helenscales.com took it’s place). My plan is to post up-to-the-minute snapshots from the marine world – scientific studies, conservation programmes, photographs etc – that encapsulate the diversity, fragility & beauty of the oceans.

Ultimately, I hope this site will go some way towards answering the question: Why do the oceans matter?

And in addition, now that my first book has been published, I will also put on my writers’ hat and cast a literary eye over the oceans to hunt down other people’s words – both old and new – about the marine realm.

I will begin by offering up what I think are the some of most interesting and important aquatic papers being published (in particular, ones that aren’t making it into the wider press), and then I will take it from there.

Your thoughts and ideas are always most welcome. Thank you for visiting and I do hope you enjoy reading my blog.

All best wishes,

Helen

2 comments to “Hello”

  1. Hello Helen:

    I learned about you while listening to you being interviewed on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. I download lots of NPR podcasts and I never know what I’m going to hear when I go out on a run! Like that one caller said, I never thought much about seahorses until I listened and, like the caller, it was fascinating! Your enthusiasm and love of the sea is totally infectious. Thank you!
    The next day I caught an interview with Alanna Mitchell, author of Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis, and again I was riveted. I live near the ocean and Nova Scotia and while I love the sea, I don’t know much about what goes on beneath the waves and I need to be forced to consider how fragile and necessary to our survival the oceans are. You’ve given me much to think about and I look forward to following your blog.

    Cheers,

    Mike

         by Mike Peterson September 15th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

  2. Hi Mike,

    Thanks so much for your message, and I’m so glad you enjoyed the npr interview.

    I’m very envious of you living near the ocean in Nova Scotia – there is so much wonderful (and important!) life out there.

    Hope you enjoy my blog.

    All best wishes,
    Helen

         by helenscales September 16th, 2009 at 11:42 am

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