Joe PolidoroHow Helper Sharks Discovered the World’s Largest Seagrass EcosystemScientists partnered with tiger sharks to map seagrass — the unsung hero of ocean conservation.Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023
Joe PolidoroWhat That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain“What can a 35-millisecond moment in swing jazz tell us about our sense of hearing, our capacity for music, and even human consciousness?”Oct 4, 2023Oct 4, 2023
Joe PolidoroHow planting 70 million eelgrass seeds led to an ecosystem’s rapid recovery“The largest seagrass study is a blueprint for capitalizing on this habitat’s capacity to store carbon”Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Joe PolidoroTurning Down the Volume on Man-Made Ocean Noise (Scientific American)“Redesigning ship propellors and installing acoustic ‘curtains’ could lower the volume on anthropogenic noise that disrupts ocean life”Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
Joe PolidoroWhose?It was just a notch above a casual question: “We have an owl… Not many people around. Its behavior is strange. It is not afraid of us.”…Jan 31, 2020Jan 31, 2020
Joe PolidoroThe Far-Ranging Red MapleAs I write, it is 56 degrees in Chokoloskee and 12 degrees in Gander, Newfoundland (-2 degrees with wind chill). And yet there’s one…Jan 29, 2020Jan 29, 2020
Joe PolidoroRestoring the Wood and Canvas CanoePiled up outside the workshop at the Thomson Canoeworks in Norfolk, Connecticut are wood-and-canvas canoes in various stages of disrepair…Jan 29, 2020Jan 29, 2020
Joe PolidoroOn Top of the WorldAt 3 A.M. and 1,620 feet above West Street, you can see 40 miles in any direction and still hear the occasional car horn from the streets…Jan 29, 2020Jan 29, 2020
