@protectoceans Top 5 Tweets for March 18-24, 2013

1. Palau’s president has proposed to create one of the world’s largest marine reserves, roughly the size of France

2. Leatherback sea turtle nest numbers down via @SFGate

3. Bringing back the dead: A Stanford professor discusses the science and ethics of resurrecting extinct species (VIDEO) via @nytimes
4. The Earth’s Largest Ecosystem in Your Back Pocket: Deep Sea Animal ID app via @deepseanews
5. Fish protein may inhibit cancer metastasis via @ScienceDaily

@protectoceans Top 5 Tweets for March 11-17, 2013

1. Plans to extract minerals from areas of #hydrothermalvents, deep on the seabed interactive video by @BBCNews via @MBARI_News
2. Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed via @UCIrvine
3. Storify-ed the #CITES4sharks tweets! Read them to learn what happened at #CITES! via @WhySharksMatter
4. Learn how some scientists
are hitchhiking across the ocean to conduct research on the cheap
via @BoingBoing
5. Scuba diving simulation video game released via @examinercom