The Fish Story
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•March 21, 2024
Whale of a Use for AI: Commercial Fishermen Might Have No Choice
I’ve frequently been referencing artificial intelligence, knowing full well it is quickly altering the world for good … or possibly for bad.
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•March 18, 2024
Technical Side of Tadpole Bubbles Revealed in Filled Vernal Ponds; Scallops Dangerously Jumpy Amid Turbine Build
How about that weekend wind-whacking!? It blew me away, almost literally.
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•March 7, 2024
Sweet Cacophony of Spring Peepers; Explaining Causeway Project Project’s Slow-Go; Pacific Whales Amid ‘Marine Heatwave’
It was still officially February when this year’s emergence of wonderfully rambunctious spring peeper frogs began their annual cascade of calls. I took in a number of locales where peepers were…
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•February 28, 2024
Roadways Remain Wet Behind the Ears As Frequent Flooding Goes Nowhere Fast; The Universe’s Whitest White and Blackest Black
With March moving in, we enter the most precipitated upon month of the year for LBI, based on “Brant Beach” data stats from the National Centers for Environmental Information. Oddly, the second most…
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•February 21, 2024
Gulf Stream Becomes Hot Topic; Infrasound Resounds Throughout Oceanic Realm
There’s quite an in-genre brouhaha forming over, of all things, a warm oceanic current. It is quite a current, though, especially from our point of view. Enter the Gulf Stream, though it may be…
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•February 14, 2024
AI Goes Natural, Offering Quiet Ways to Watch Wildlife; Gig Economy Not New to the Island
Artificial intelligence is rushing to the wildlife conservation rescue. It’s especially showing in Ecuador, where scientists have set up advanced recording devices capable of gathering wildlife…
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•February 7, 2024
Sea Surface Temperatures Now Hot Under the Collar; The European Model Rocks the Forecasting Runway
As fun-loving crazies ready themselves to take the annual St. Francis Parish Polar Plunge into 40-degree LBI waters, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is on the brink of…
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•January 31, 2024
Keeping Up With Spongy Political Correctness; Turbines Make a Sudden Move Offshore
I’m required to pass on a series of late-breaking political correctnesses. Hey, you come up with a better word to cover more than one example of political correctness.
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•January 30, 2024
‘Hallucinate’ Within an Arriving Word-of-Year Flood; Looking for the Toothiest Critters on the Planet
Hey, Dictionary.com, after much word-usage analysis, has chosen “hallucinate” as its 2023 “word of the year.”
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•January 20, 2024
We’re Getting Blown Away by the Weather; Island Towns Seeking Sand Renourishment
The weather is well worth a columnistic mention. We’ve gotten meteorologically bounced about of late, particularly by the wind gods … and goddesses. Again, maintaining my political correctness.
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•January 10, 2024
Something Familiar-Looking About 2024; Taking Shots at Arriving New Year
It’s 2024 but, to date, it’s the spitting image of late 2023. What’s up with that? Nonetheless, I’m keeping an eye on 2024 just in case it makes some sort of sudden unexpected moves.
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•December 20, 2023
The Year Is Gone With a Snap of a Finger; Getting a Whole New Look at Viewsheds
Wow. The year 2023 went by like that – as I make a finger snap motion. Which begs some early-on columnistic minutiae.
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•December 14, 2023
Possible End to Limulus Bloodletting; Seeing Reforestation Through the Trees
I think I’ll start with some good news for Limulus. No, not Linus, though we are quickly moving in on a Charlie Brown Christmas.
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•December 7, 2023
Time to Pencil in ‘The South Ocean,’ Bassing Goes Beyond Times Long Ago
I got an excited call from Antarctica. It’s ecstatic over finally getting its own ocean. With help from prestigious scientists at National Geographic along with many highly community-oriented…
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•November 22, 2023
Awaiting the Welcome Arrival of a Huge Spider; Communicative Jellyfish Are Offering Memories
I just got wind of a remarkable winter word: apricity. No, your mother didn’t use it all the time!
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•November 16, 2023
It’s Time to Give a Hay About Things; Anti-Turbiners Need to Meet Siemens Energy
The fading of agrarian smarts today finds many folks unaware of the significant difference between straw and hay.
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•November 8, 2023
Trying to Get That Old Standard Rhythm Back; Terrible Turbines Times Might Impact Atlantic Shores
Welcome back to the dark side of the year. The one-hour time change makes that switch official. We’re once again standardized, in a laid-back winterish way. Standard time has also been called winter…
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•November 2, 2023
A Dang Decent Show of Autumn-Toned Leaves; Woolly Bears to the Prognostication Rescue
On Monday, the HVAC went on at work and it took a second to figure out if it was the air conditioning or heat. It has been that sorta fall. It was the AC. The heat sounded off the very next day.
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•October 26, 2023
Stealing a Look at Island Crime Sprees; Money Is Set Aside for Bay Bottom Damages
While LBI is generally blessed with a low showing of criminality, there remains the well-advertised risk of vehicle swipings. Island police departments are ongoingly warning about leaving vehicles…
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•October 18, 2023
One Wind Farm Array Sinks as Another Re-Arises; Ode to a Banner Showing of Glorious Goldenrods
MORE TURBINE TURBIDITY: Once again, there are significant stirrings in the offshore wind power realm.
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•October 12, 2023
State Park Readies for Ørsted’s Cables; Planting Trees Outshines Planting Turbines
THERE AND NOW: As cable work for Ørsted’s Wind 1 commences at Island Beach State Park, the company held a two-hour, explanatory town meeting. Questions were fielded and answered by experts. Responses…
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•October 5, 2023
The 35-Miles-Out Lobby Gets Turbine Lift; Record Rains Could Send Us Gotham Fallout
What a difference a week to 10 days makes. Sky things went from constant NE-wind crappiness to crazy gorgeous – with a touch of autumnal icing on top.
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•September 27, 2023
A Time the Pinelands Almost Took Flight; Ophelia Lights Fire Under Marine Life
What the cyclonic Lady Ophelia lacked in arrival strength, she made up for in staying power, lasting for many windy days on end. She fattened up on beach sand before finally moseying off to the…
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•September 21, 2023
Fruit Flies Tackle Closed-Head Traumatic Brain Injuries; It’s a Fine Time to Ponder Small Modular Reactors
Watching any football lately? For aficionados, there’s little doubt that the game has never been played at such brain-rattling levels. Now, coming to the rescue of players’ white matter comes … the…
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•September 14, 2023
Inflation Batters Nation’s Only Turbine-Building Vessel; There’s No Place for Sovereign Anglers When Buggying
I’ll commence by bemoaning the overplaying of hurricanes, referencing Lee of a Thousand Spaghetti Strands.
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•September 6, 2023
Jersey Gator Makes a Sudden Showing; Ørsted in the Red and Rethinking Wind 1
The beach has shed its summer skin, accompanied by a changing of the beach guard. Overwhelming throngs have given way to a scattering of fervid postseason aficionados, especially anglers and…
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•August 30, 2023
Getting Final Word on Friends in Lahaina; The Season of Batty Bats Is Upon Us
It was something like a mere week ago that I was hailing the start of the LBI’s summer season. Now, here I am bidding it a fond adieu, adios, bon voyage, arrivederci, sayonara, auf wiedersehen and…
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•August 23, 2023
The Island’s Laid-Back Nature Ends Swiftly; Turbines Could Play Havoc With the Bight
ALL ABOUT LBI: Considering how grounded I am in the past, you wouldn’t think I’d have much reason to muse about the thoroughly modern Taylor-made madness that befell Beach Haven last week, especially…
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•August 16, 2023
Lawnmowing Session of Epic Oddness; When Water Intake Takes Deadly Turn
Commencing this week’s column with a human-vs.-wildlife tale of barely believable proportions. It’s stunningly true, though.
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•August 10, 2023
Stay Away From Our Horseshoe Crabs, Dude; Yet Another Soapy Episode Starring Turbines
Worth a mention are a couple highlights from the NJDEP Fish and Wildlife Bureau of Law Enforcement’s monthly report.
