Recent Posts Tagged With 'salps'

• From Australia: A Link Between Salps and Climate Change?

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 05:57 in salps

  On Block Island last August, the beaches were rimmed with sparkling lines of translucent salps -- tiny planktonic vertebrates -- in numbers that few people there had ever seen before. Now there's speculation out of Australia that salps "could be part...

• Salps: Not in Long Island Sound Apparently

  Posted on Wednesday September 3rd, 2008 at 06:00 in block island, salps

  About salps in Long Island Sound, Mickey Weiss, the head of Project Oceanology, at Avery Point, told me:There are no scientific reports of salps occurring in LIS according to my LIS data base (Weiss, et.al. 1995. Plants and animals of Long Island Sou...

• Salps in the Surf

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 10:19 in block island, seahorses, soundwaters, salps

  The shallows where we swim on Block Island, and the sandbars in the Great Salt Pond, where we clam, have been invaded by transparent, pellet-sized, glass-like animals called salps. We've vacationed on the island 10 times in the last 13 years and we'v...