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		<title>FREE RINGTONE:  A HUMPBACK WHALE SINGING IN DOUGLAS CHANNEL, BC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that makes humpback whales so interesting to study is their iconic song.  Many of us first heard these haunting sounds when Dr Roger Payne published them in a vinyl, floppy 45rpm soundsheet in an old issue of National Geographic. Generally, humpbacks sing on their breeding grounds (in Hawaii and Mexico), and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2012/02/19/free-ringtone-a-humpback-whale-singing-in-douglas-channel-bc/</link>
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		<title>Five Ways to Show Your Love for the Ocean.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whale you be my Valentine? I dolphinately will! Illustration by Leafeon via Quid Pro Quo on Tumblr &#160; Love prompts us to do brave, romantic and sometimes foolish things.  To paraphrase Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, today we’re asking ourselves:  How do I love thee, Ocean?  Let me count the ways.  We came up with 5.  On Valentine’s Day this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2012/02/14/five-ways-to-show-your-love-for-the-ocean/</link>
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		<title>OCEANS ELEVEN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our plan was to spend a quiet year in Scotland.  Erin&#8217;s making great strides on her PhD on Pacific white-sided dolphins.  Rob won a Marie Curie Fellowship to model the effects of noise on whale populations.  But MAN!  This ended up being one of our busiest years ever.  Here are 11 of our highlights of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2012/01/01/oceans-eleven/</link>
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		<title>IF YOU WERE A WHALE, WHERE WOULD YOU LIVE?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, said it best: &#8220;There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.&#8221; She was talking about people, but it&#8217;s not a bad description of how we protect wildlife. Much of our work as marine conservation biologists involves identifying habitat that&#8217;s important to whales and dolphins, and ensuring that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/10/11/if-you-were-a-whale-where-would-you-live/</link>
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		<title>The Girl Effect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Girl Effect They say write about what you know.  That&#8217;s tough, because I don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to be a girl in the developing world.  I’m trying to learn, because girls in the developing world hold the key to creating a better life for all of us.  It&#8217;s called The Girl Effect. &#160; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/10/04/the-girl-effect/</link>
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		<title>PLASTIC IS FOREVER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy (?!?) Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Day!  We hope you&#8217;re reading this post on your smart phone, on your way to a beach to clean up plastic. The ocean needs all the help it can get, from people everywhere and in all walks of life, to remove plastic from the ecosystem before it chokes something. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/09/17/plastic-is-forever/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;KEEPING QUIET&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are field biologists.  We get excited about field work, not meetings.  But we can&#8217;t tell you how excited we are to attend next week&#8217;s planning session for an International Quiet Ocean Experiment.  {The fact that it&#8217;s in Paris, home of the best bakery in the world, may have something to do with it.}  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/08/28/keeping-quiet/</link>
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		<title>Antarctic humpback whale for August Break</title>
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		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/08/26/antarctic-humpback-whale-for-august-break/</link>
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		<title>Dolphins on the move</title>
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		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/08/18/dolphins-on-the-move/</link>
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		<title>Need to cool off?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; While it&#8217;s pretty cool here in Scotland, many of you are having a blazing summer.  We hope this Emperor penguin does the trick!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.oceansinitiative.org/2011/08/15/need-to-cool-off/</link>
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