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September Carnivals

Eclectic Echoes and The Other 95% are in a few of the carnivals along with many other most excellent blogs. These carnivals, if you are not familiar, round up the best posts online, usually on some theme.

This month (tomorrow!) I will be hosting Linneaus’ Legacy over at The Other 95%. That one is a carnival dedicated to species descriptions, and taxonomy and systematics theory and methods. There are some excellent taxonomists that regularly participate. (I’ll add the link as soon as it’s up!)

In the mean time a variety of other carnivals of interest or that Eclectic Echoes / Other 95% support ad are involved in:

While Kevin and I forgot to submit an entry this month (Doh!), the latest Carnival of the Blue is up at The Saipan Blog. The Carnival of the Blue is our favorite ocean themed carnival, all ocean all the time. This edition includes a lot of delights on the menu including the Mariana Trench National Monument news, manatees, cephalopods and more.

The boneyard is dedicated to all things paleontological. This month it is featured at When Pigs Fly Returns and features Tsintaosaurus, Carbon Age ecology, dromaeosaurs and fossil inverts among others!

I and the Bird #83 is hosted at Wrenaissance Reflections this week. This one is dedicated to writing about our favorite non extinct dinosaurs. Their criteria is that the writing should be about the birds and your feeling, interactions etc. Check it out…there is some really good writing and photography represented.

The Friday Ark for the first week of September (#207) is also up. This one is a collection of posts with a far looser structure. The only requirement is that an animal must take center stage.

Blue

Well if you know me, you know blue is my favorite color.
Any shade of blue indigo, the blues of Tammy and Johann’s eyes, and the many shades of the ocean.

Today the Carnival of the Blue #13 was put up at Blogfish, including two of my posts from The Other 95%.

So what is the Carnival of the Blue?

Well in the words of the Carnival Master of Ceremonies Mark Powell (Scientist, conservationist, the author of Blogfish, and in an odd twist, a former Avery Point Professor):

Carnival of the blue is meant to provide a community for ocean-related blogging and bloggers… [Where] ocean bloggers and readers will gather at the traveling carnival and share insights with each other and the wider world.

It is a monthly roundup of the best stories and writings by bloggers with a focus on the ocean and life within it. A year ago on World Ocean Day, June 8th, Blogfish hosted the inaugural edition of the carnival. Since then it has been to many of the top ocean blogs including many of my (almost) daily reads. Now as World Ocean Day approaches again, the 13th edition has gone up with 35 entries from 25 sites. My favorites are Craig MacLean’s story from Te Papa’s colossal squid dissection, a knit wolf fish (still trying to convince Tammy to knit the bone eating worms) and the wealth of sustainable seafood entries.

Yeah, no direct links… but if you go to the Carnival at Blogfish you can access all the Blue links you need to truly get your blue on…

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