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LOM gives away $25,000 to mark 25 years
Monday, January 29, 2018

LOM Financial gave away $25,000 to charity at an event to mark its 25th anniversary.


Flying visit for rare bird
Monday, January 22, 2018

One of the largest plunge divers in the world made a rare and spectacular appearance off the North Shore.


Island ponds given overhaul by BZS
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Two ponds have been cleaned up courtesy of an island conservation programme.


Cahow breeding season set to break records
Monday, January 15, 2018

This year’s cahow breeding season could be a record breaker, experts predicted yesterday.


“Andy” Is Now The Longest Tracked Tiger Shark
Friday, January 12, 2018

Andy — a tiger shark tagged in Bermuda by scientists from Nova Southeastern University’s [NSU] Guy Harvey Research Institute [GHRI] in 2014 — is now the longest tracked tiger shark on record.



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Setting Sail for the Sargasso Sea
Bermuda Zoological Society
Wednesday, July 01, 2015

By Dr. S.R. Smith
Curator, Natural History Museum

The sailing research vessel Sea Dragon headed out to sea on Friday, June 5th to gather data on the Sargassum community around Bermuda, sponsored by the BAMZ support charities, the Atlantic Conservation Partnership and the Bermuda Zoological Society.

Dr. Robbie Smith, Curator of the Natural History Museum, led the team of Bermudian and US scientists and students for a three day expedition south of Bermuda. The crew consisted of Amy Harvey of the Bermuda College and two of her students, Joshua Stevens and Gary Taylor, Abbie Caldas of Greenrock, Kyla Smith from BIOS, Hannah Frith, a Bermudian undergraduate from Oberlin College, graduate student Pearce Cooper from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, graduate student Leslie Acton from Duke University and her professor Dr. Lisa Campbell.

The team collected Sargassum and described the diverse community within the seaweed. Pearce hoped to collect many fishes for comparison to his work in the Gulf of Mexico. Leslie is a marine policy student, and she and Lisa wanted a close-up look at Bermuda’s EEZ, as part of their study on Bermuda’s approach to ocean governance. Other work included surface tows to estimate floating plastic marine debris, night-time plankton tows to catch small vertically migrating deepwater fishes and also the deployment of a vertical longline to catch deepwater fishes and squids. Dr. Smith also kept an eye out for seabirds.