“Don’t blame me,” said the little boy. “The problem with our oceans is that they’re huge.”“That’s what I’ve been telling them for 60 years,” said Paddy the Starfish.“I’m just a baby, so don’t blame me” said Junior to Bubbles the slug. “The problem is up there”.“Something must have changed, but what was it?” said Angel Fish. “I suspect lots of things”.“I know that you’re talking about me,” said Thorny passing by quickly for good reason.“I know that you’re ...

Miyake-Jima 1957It's 1957 and Japanese scientists travel to the island of Miyake-Jima to study a strange disease affecting a coral reef. The island’s people have noticed a strange increase in the number of the large, venomous crown-of-thorns starfish. Over the following years they kill large numbers of the starfish attempting to protect the living coral upon which the starfish is feeding. The Japanese scientists noted that they had observed giant triton shells feeding on the crown-o...

From the apperance of the cover the reader would be forgiven for assuming 'Surviving Coincidental History' Is another tale of rescue at sea. While extensivly researching the family archives.JJ Paterson discovers that he has unwittingly become part of a two hundred year old reccuring twist of fate. Directly linked to two ancestors centuries apart with the exact same family name, who both suffered the same tragic end in exactly the same part of the Atlantic ocean.Off the coast of West Africa...

In the vast, vibrant blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean, where the coral reefs burst with life and schools of fish dart about, lives our heroine, Samantha. Samantha isn't just any inhabitant of this bustling marine metropolis - she's a majestic shark, a sentinel of the sea, and a guardian.But Samantha isn't alone in her mission. Alongside her is the Maori Wrasse and Giant Triton, other formidable predators of the coral reefs. These predators play a critical role in maintaining the balance o...

A thesis submitted according to the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Queensland.December, 1994.Coral reefs seem to defy many of the paradigms which characterise less complex biological communities. While there is general agreement that the biota of coral reefs exhibit high species diversity, some authors have characterised coral reef assemblages by selecting species with high population densities (Sale, 1974; 1976; 197...

We've already had three years of this.The way we're going, there's no F in Christmas. While we watch multiple new viral variants surge back and forth across the globe, it must seem like pandemics go on forever. Fortunately, both SARS and MERS were contained and eliminated fairly quickly, but we don't have that much other experience with lethal pandemic coronaviruses. It is suspected that the 1890s pandemic that featured in the famous legal case Carlill v Carbolic S...

ChatGPT on Nuclear, Brandis, Ukraine, War, Virginia Class Subs, ALP Nuclear Policy, AUKUS, Politics, Somerton Man, Starfish, Tritons, COVID-19 and Copyright.This is a series of brief conversations with ChatGPT on a number of controversial subjects. The results are unedited and represent a range of answers, but ChatGPT is not allowed to express opinions and does not access recent news. All in all, it provides an interesting insight into this new technology called “A...

SUMMARY OF RESEARCHSea-urchins and starfish both belong to Phylum Echinodermata and while early research on the fertilization reaction was conducted by Rothschild and Swann (1949) on sea-urchins, the conclusions regarding egg fertilization and proximity of spawning individuals were just as applicable to starfish.Human collection of the Giant Triton and other predators was suggested by Endean (1969) as a causative factor in starfish outbreaks, but this Predat...

This book takes over from where my first book left off. WHERE ARE YOU? Was about being able to know where you are on life’s journey. This second book is very much about the journey itself – the inner journey – which remains uncharted.

In our postmodern world where the individual ‘self’ is the centre of the universe and God seems at best to be weak and irrelevant, have you ever wondered where you are? Often when I ponder what’s going on in the world around me and in the relationships between me and others and then go deeper inside of myself than what is going on at the surface of my life, I get a sense of something significant deep within me, but it’s not me, so I wonder what it is. Do you have that sense? By the way, if...

This title was first published n 2000: The most recent developments in occupational health and safety regulation in the UK’s offshore oil industry represent a departure from traditional legal forms. But how should they best be understood and what advantages do they offer over the previous regulatory approaches? Informed by autopoiesis theory, this study takes seriously the notion of an empirical field constituted by diverse communicative systems and thus traces the development of the indus...

The perfect water cycle book for kids and the ideal rain book for children!Learning becomes fun with this book about water for kids! In this incredible earth day book for kids, amazing artwork and interesting backmatter will have readers gaining a deep appreciation for the world around us!Water is always changing—from rain to rivers, fog to thunderheads and snowflakes to ocean waves. John Paterson's lyrical verses present water in its many colors, ...