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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Stop the "rollout" of PLASTIC GRASS at FGCU

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College campuses are usually quiet in summer, but Florida Gulf Coast University buzzed this week with an impassioned effort to stop the roll...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Sea Breeze / Land Breeze - The Gulf of Mexico Breathing

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Florida doesn't have any mountains to look at but we do have some primo clouds. Clouds have interested me ever since I was a kid, but si...
Sunday, June 28, 2026

The stark folly of poisoning a lakeshore (photos)

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Next to my apartment complex is a large retention pond (henceforth, "the lake") which captures and processes runoff from the spraw...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

Current thoughts on wealth inequality

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 1. Billionaires* shouldn't exist. Their existence** is bad for society. Some people say, "Another's wealth doesn't hurt yo...
Friday, June 19, 2026

Reflecting on the reflecting pool

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How about that algae bloom in the Washington DC reflecting pool that Trump just “fixed” in his typical manner- with foolish vanity, at grea...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

What fundamentals of humanity are most absent from America’s public consciousness?

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The current human population is about 8,300,000,000. ( https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ ) We each have a consciousness and i...
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Friday, May 8, 2026

Manatees to oysters; school's out fieldwork blitz in SW Florida

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I finished my spring semester grading on Sunday night then woke up at 6 am Monday to begin four consecutive days of benthic ecology fieldwor...
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James Douglass
I'm a marine biology professor at Florida Gulf Coast University. My professional page is here, my personal blog is here, and my no-longer-maintained science blog is here.
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