The eleventh edition of the Carnival of the Blue, the best of the last month’s ocean blogging, is up at the ever inimitable Zooillogix. This…
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Dumping Pharmaceutical Waste In The Deep Sea
During 1973-78 alone over 400 metric tones of pharmaceutical wastes were dumped into the ocean off Puerto Rico.
View More Dumping Pharmaceutical Waste In The Deep SeaJust One Thing Challenge #9: Enjoy The Ocean
I am so f’n excited that we funded two Donor’s Choose projects with the last challenge. This week’s challenge is more recreational than work. This…
View More Just One Thing Challenge #9: Enjoy The OceanBeware Avenging Narwhals!
Just in time for the big Spring Thaw, grab your Avenging Narwhal Playset! “The narwhal is an arctic-dwelling whale that has been called “the unicorn…
View More Beware Avenging Narwhals!Live Blogging From Antarctica
Adrian Glover, deep-sea scientist and polychaete expert, is live blogging his experience aboard the RRS James Clark Ross in Antarctica. Posts will cover the expedition…
View More Live Blogging From AntarcticaGot a Spare $25,000?
With a lot of extra spare change you could name a species
View More Got a Spare $25,000?Null hypothesis: cows do not breed whales
For many years, the Japanese were accused of exploiting the ‘scientific whaling’ loophole at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for the purposes of commercial harvest…
View More Null hypothesis: cows do not breed whalesHelp support the Oceans-21 Act
Surfrider Foundation says…. you have the power to help preserve and protect our oceans, waves and beaches by asking your Congressional Representative to support the…
View More Help support the Oceans-21 ActFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Logarithmic Spiral
The structure of the gastropod shell forms a logarithmic spiral first described by Descartes and later by Bernoulli. Good ol’ Jakob called it the “marvelous…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Logarithmic SpiralTGIF: Giant & Humboldt Squid
Been awhile since we talked about Mollusks here at DSN. A couple of Friday movies to rectify that problem. The first one not so serious…the…
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