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June 10, 2009
Jellyfish Population Explodes on Land and Sea!
By Meryl Ann Butler
The jellyfish population has been expanding in "jellyfish blooms" in oceans around the globe, and now the explosion includes a 600-foot-long crop circle in England!
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The jellyfish population has been expanding in “jellyfish blooms” in oceans around the globe, and now the explosion includes a 600-foot-long crop circle in England!
The June 10, 2009, issue of Science Daily noted that we are seeing “major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appear to be the result of human activities.”
On June 9th, the Mother Nature Network reported that “Giant jellyfish weighing up to 440 pounds are taking over areas of the world’s oceans ...Their numbers are swelling thanks to decreased competition from fish (due to overfishing). Currently, giant Nomura jellyfish measuring over six feet in length and weighing up to 440 pounds are growing in numbers.”
Jellyfish blooms have been reported in the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Black and Caspian Seas, the Northeast US coast, Hawaii, Australia, the Bering Sea, the North Sea, Namibia, and very dramatically in the Sea of Japan. Science Daily noted that, “By sampling sea life in a heavily fished region off the coast of Namibia, researchers have found that jellyfish have actually overtaken fish in terms of the biomass they contribute to this ocean region.”
On June 8, World Oceans Day, the Jerusalem Post noted that “large concentrations” of jellyfish “are due to arrive off Israel's coast very soon, and earlier than usual,” according to Magen David Adom.
According to Crop Circle Connector (http://www.CropCircleConnector.com), the Jellyfish crop circle, similar in appearance to a giant Portuguese Man-of-War, was reported just over a week earlier, on May 29th, in Waylands Smithy, Oxfordshire, England.
Crop Circle Connector, which produces annual DVD's on the crop circle phenomenon, states, “A characteristic of a crop circle is a circular depression within a field of crop (oil seed rape, barley, wheat, oats) where the plants themselves are flattened at the very base, (or frequently bent at the lowest node junction) in a ‘spiralled’ pattern ... generally the plant is bent over at 90 degrees to the standing crop around it …
“From the evidence inside many formations we have visited, the force involved in creating them is extremely rapid, but at the same time impressively accurate … We do believe that some are hoaxed every year, but there is definitely a real phenomenon interacting with these man-made designs.”
Nonprofit research team Burke, Levengood & Talbott has researched this intriguing, and still unexplained, crop circle phenomenon since 1999. Their focus is the discovery, scientific documentation and evaluation of physical changes induced in plants, soils and other materials at crop circle sites by the energy (or energy system) responsible for creating the crop circles, and to determine from these data the specific nature and source of these energies. (http://www.bltresearch.com )
During the 1990’s The BLT Research Team published three peer-reviewed papers in the scientific journals. Their work is the only scientifically accepted crop research to date.
Funded by Laurance Rockefeller, BLT conducted an examination of clay minerals in crop circle soil in the late 1990’s.
Dr. Robert C. Reynolds Jr., head of the Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, found it hard to believe the results of their findings, so he evaluated the study. He replicated some of their tests as well as their statistics. To his surprise, he obtained the same results.
Dr. Reynolds is now deceased, but President of BLT Research Team Nancy Talbott said that "in discussing his results, Dr. Reynolds stated that 'the changes in the clay minerals in the soil of the crop circles would have required geological pressure (equal to that of mountains pressing down on sediments) or heat in the range of 600-800 degrees Celcius for many hours. Either one of which would have decimated the fields, which clearly did not happen.”
Dr. Reynolds concluded, “We must be dealing with an energy unknown to science.” (
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Karen Alexander, a crop circle-expert, noted, “We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world. It is absolutely huge, three times the size of most patterns.”
And it seems to mirror the expansionist activities of jellyfish around the world.
According to Science Daily, “New research led by CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and University of Queensland scientist, Dr. Anthony Richardson, and colleagues at the University of Miami, Swansea University, and the University of the Western Cape, present convincing evidence that the global ’jellyfish joyride’ is associated with over-fishing and excess nutrients from fertilizers and sewage.”
Dr. Richardson and his colleagues’ new research, entitled The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future, is the cover story in the current issue of the international journal; Trends in Ecology and Evolution, the highest-cited journal in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The paper states that human-induced stresses of overfishing, eutrophication, climate change, translocation and habitat modification appear to be promoting jellyfish blooms to the detriment of other marine organisms.
In summary, Dr. Richardson recommends, “managing the marine environment in a holistic way.”
Perhaps that is the wordless message from the crop circles, too.
The author wishes to thank Alex Champion for sharing his information on the jellyfish blooms and the crop circles.
RESOURCES:
Burke, Levengood & Talbott /BLT Research http://www.bltresearch.com Accessed June 10, 2009.) BLT is also involved in an ongoing study with Robbert van den Broeke, a young Dutchman who is the only person in the world known to be able to accurately predict the occurance of new crop circles. He has correctly predicted the position and design of crop circles in Holland for over 15 years. www.bltresearch.com/robbert.php BLT offers a USA crop circle list at http://www.bltresearch.com/usacropcircles/ Accessed June 10, 2009.
The Crop Circle Connector (http://www.cropcircleconnector.com). Accessed June 10, 2009. Crop Circle photos and reports in this article are courtesy The Crop Circle Connector. Crop Circle Connector produces annual DVD's on the crop circle phenomenon, their latest and most ambitious production is titled CROP CIRCLES - Hidden Mysteries. http://www.cccvault.com/cccvideos/trailer09c.html
'Jellyfish Joyride' A Threat To The Oceans. Science Daily. June 9, 2009. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Plea over Jellyfish Crop Circle. June 3, 2009. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Large Jellyfish Crop
Circle Forms in UK. MyFOXla.com June 10, 2009. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
600 ft jellyfish crop circle found in Oxfordshire field. Telegraph.co.uk June 10, 2009. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Massive Jellyfish Swarms In Hawaii, Gulf Of Mexico And Other Locations Dec. 14, 2008. Science Daily. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Jellyfish Dominate Fish In Over-harvested Namibian Waters
Science Daily. July 11, 2006. click here The findings are reported by Andrew Brierley, of the University of St. Andrews, and his colleagues in the July 12th issue of the journal Current Biology. Accessed June 10, 2009.
Unwelcome jellyfish arriving early this season. Jerusalem Post. June 8. 2009. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Mother Nature Network: Will the oceans of the future be filled with jellyfish?
Giant jellyfish weighing up to 440 pounds are taking over areas of the world’s oceans thanks to overfishing. Tue, Jun 09 2009 click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution: http://www.trends.com The jellyfish joyride: causes, consequences and management responses to a more gelatinous future. Cover story in Vol. 2, issue 6 (June 2009) pp 289-350. click here Accessed June 10, 2009.
Authors Website: http://www.OceanViewArts.com
Authors Bio:
Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, 2013. In June, 2015, the combined views on her articles, diaries and quick link contributions topped one million. She was particularly happy that her article about Bree Newsome removing the Confederate flag was the one that put her past the million mark.
Her art in a wide variety of media can be seen on her YouTube video, "Visionary Artist Meryl Ann Butler on Creativity and Joy" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcGs2r_66QE
A NYC native, her response to 9-11 was to pen an invitation to healing through creativity, entitled, "90-Minute Quilts: 15+ Projects You Can Stitch in an Afternoon" (Krause 2006), which is a bestseller in the craft field. The sequel, MORE 90-Minute Quilts: 20+ Quick and Easy Projects With Triangles and Squares was released in April, 2011. Her popular video, How to Stitch a Quilt in 90 Minutes with Meryl Ann Butler can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrShGOQaJQ8
She has been active in a number of international, arts-related projects as a citizen diplomat, and was arts advisor to Baltimore's CIUSSR (Center for Improving US-Soviet Relations), 1987-89. She made two trips to the former USSR in 1987 and 1988 to speak to artists, craftpeople and fashion designers on the topic of utilizing the arts as a tool for global wellbeing. She created the historical "First US-Soviet Children's Peace Quilt Exchange Project" in 1987-88, which was the first time a reciprocal quilt was given to the US from the former USSR.
Her artwork is in collections across the globe.
Meryl Ann is a founding member of The Labyrinth Society and has been building labyrinths since 1992. She publishes an annual article about the topic on OpEdNews on World Labyrinth Day, the first Saturday in May.
OpEdNews Senior Editor Joan Brunwasser interviewed Meryl Ann in "Beyond Surviving: How to Thrive in Challenging Times" at https://www.opednews.com/articles/Beyond-Surviving--How-to-by-Joan-Brunwasser-Anxiety_Appreciation_Coronavirus_Creativity-200318-988.html
Find out more about Meryl Ann's artistic life in "OEN Managing Ed, Meryl Ann Butler, Featured on the Other Side of the Byline" at https://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/OEN-Managing-Ed-Meryl-Ann-in-Life_Arts-Artistic_Artists_Quilt-170917-615.html
On Feb 11, 2017, Senior Editor Joan Brunwasser interviewed Meryl Ann in Pink Power: Sister March, Norfolk, VA at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pink-Power-Sister-March--by-Joan-Brunwasser-Pussy-Hats-170212-681.html
"Creativity and Healing: The Work of Meryl Ann Butler" by Burl Hall is at
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Creativity-and-Healing--T-by-Burl-Hall-130414-18.html
Burl and Merry Hall interviewed Meryl Ann on their BlogTalk radio show, "Envision This," at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/envision-this/2013/04/11/meryl-ann-butler-art-as-a-medicine-for-the-soul
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