Deep Sea Tweets for March 24th, 2010
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Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 24th, 2010 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 24th, 2010 Broadcast . . . → Read More: Deep Sea Tweets for March 24th, 2010

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Heading to San Francisco
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Anyone up for blog meetup/tweetup in San Francisco on Friday night? We can drink away all the bad news this week about the lack of CITES (that’s Commercial Interests Trump Endangered Species if you haven’t been paying attention). Leave a comment or email if you want to meet up. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Anyone up for blog meetup/tweetup in San Francisco on Friday night? We can drink away all the bad news this week about the lack of CITES (that’s Commercial Interests Trump…

Deep Sea Tweets for March 22nd, 2010
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Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 22nd, 2010 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 22nd, 2010 Broadcast . . . → Read More: Deep Sea Tweets for March 22nd, 2010

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Alpaca Surfing. Because We Can?
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Hat tip to The Bitter End. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Hat tip to The Bitter End. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

Every Whale Has Its Bone
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This one goes out to David from my lab who just got back from 2 months down under in Antarctica and deployed whale bones for part of his experiments. You can read up on all his updates while he was at sea. Every Whale Has A Bone (with apologies to Brett Michael) We both . . . → Read More: Every Whale Has Its Bone

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Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
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Living vesicomyid clams 100 kilometers from the former edge of the Larsen B Ice Shelf as initially seen in 2005 (top), and images of what may be the same clam bed now dead in 2007.  Although the image quality is poor, the trails in the 2005 image are characteristic of those made by living vesicomyids.  Upper image is from Domack et al. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 86, 269-276 (2005).  Lower image is from Niemann et al. (2009)

David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea

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The Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners
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This is where I’d like to be this Monday morning. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}This is where I’d like to be this Monday morning. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet

What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
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[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @$#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?” with the world’s coolest handling editor, Burd et al tackle one of . . . → Read More: What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?

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Unfortunate News of the Week
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The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in India’s motto is “The Technology for Harnessing the Wealth of the Ocean Starts Here.”  In April, NIOT will start the next phase of fields trials at 1000m for deep-sea mining equipment. Trials of the crawler were already successfully completed at 500 meters. Why such the interest in deep-sea . . . → Read More: Unfortunate News of the Week

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Deep Sea Tweets for March 20th, 2010
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Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 20th, 2010 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 20th, 2010 Broadcast . . . → Read More: Deep Sea Tweets for March 20th, 2010

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