My Daily Scribbles

Chile upgrades tsunami alert for coast and Easter Island Chile on Friday upgraded a tsunami alert for its coastline and remote Easter Island territory after waves triggered by a massive earthquake in Japan hit Hawaii, and said it would evacuate flood-prone areas along the mainland coast. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! News

Coast Guard ready to break the ice in Maine The Coast Guard is warning ice fishermen to move their ice shacks from the Kennebec River as it prepares for its springtime ritual of breaking the river ice. Read more on Boston Globe

UC Davis researchers — with colleagues from Stanford University, Point Reyes National Seashore and Montana State University — have published the first rigorous scientific estimate of white shark numbers off the Central California coast. This video includes clips from the new photo-census study and also from earlier studies that put satellite-tracking tags on white sharks [...]

I know that tsunamis don’t normally hit Canada, I’m doing some quick research for a short sci-fi story I want to write. Mainly I want to know how badly Quebec City and Montreal would be if the tsunami got funneled down the St Lawrence. A tsunami of roughly 200 feet high by the time it [...]

Coast Guard Admiral Pushing for US Ratification of Law of the Sea Treaty Casey Kelly, KTOO – Juneau As his tour in Alaska winds down, Rear Admiral Christopher Colvin, commander of the Coast Guard’s 17th District, says it’s imperative the United States ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty. Right now the U.S. has exclusive [...]