Map from Swordpress detailing depths and locations of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico My original intent for this post was to provide a nice infographic detailing by percentage the operators/owners of all the oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. After spending a few hours on the internet I found out that is . . . → Read More: Oil Platforms in the Gulf: How Many and Who Owns Them?
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By Dr. M, on  June 21st, 2010  12 comments  Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Oil Spills  Gulf of Mexico, Mineral Management Service, MMS, oil platforms, oil rigs, Oil Spill Awesome squid footage from MBARI! Hat tip to Zooillogix. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Awesome squid footage from MBARI! Hat tip to Zooillogix. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Kevin Zelnio, on June 21st, 2010 4 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It Examiner, holothurian, jellyfish, Oil Spill, Sea Cucumber Do I really need to point out the error here? At least they got it down to Kingdom correctly… Click on the image to go to the original article. UPDATE: The critter is a pelagic sea cucumber, phylum Echinodermata, genus Enypniastes which is #20 on our list The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species. I can’t . . . → Read More: Examiner Taxonomy FAIL
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 20th, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish Father's Day, Knysha, National Geographic, seahorse Happy Father’s day to all our daddy-readers. Here is a new clip National Geographic on the rare, endangered Knysha seahorse, one of Earth’s great fathers. Hopefully you are spending the day having a great time hanging out your kids. Though I am the only father on the DSN team, we consider Dr. M our blogfather, . . . → Read More: Happy Father’s Day!
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 20th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity bivalve, Giant Clam, Mollusc, National Geographic That is all. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}That is all. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet Antarctica – Below Zero from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Hat tip to Chris Mah. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Antarctica – Below Zero from Alex.Be. on Vimeo. Hat tip to Chris Mah. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet Nicholas Cage chooses the animals he eats based on how they have sex: I think fish are very dignified with sex. So are birds. But pigs, not so much. So I don’t eat pig meat or things like that. I eat fish and fowl. Clearly Cage has never seen a spawning aggregation (video below). I . . . → Read More: Friday Silliness: Nicholas Cage thinks fish sex is dignifed; is wrong
By Dr. M, on June 16th, 2010 4 comments Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Life Science, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls hms challenger, Iceland, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, scuba diving, Silfra, Thingvellier Valley Mid-Atlantic Ridge: From Wikimedia Commons Map showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge splitting Iceland and separating the North American and Eurasian Plates. The map also shows Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, the Thingvellir area, and the locations of some of Iceland's active volcanoes (red triangles), including Krafla. From Wikimedia commons You can thank the major ocean spreading . . . → Read More: Sometimes My Job Is Real Nice
By Kevin Zelnio, on June 15th, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Oil Spills Antioxidant, Best of Zelnio, Carotenoid, Gull, Hydrocarbons, Larus michahellis, Oil Spill, Oxidative Stress, Pollutant, pollution, Prestige, Seagull Oil is bad for wildlife. Period. But we really do not understand how it is bad. What does it do? Can marine organisms respond physiologically to oil in diets? For instance, translocate the toxic components to feathers and molt it off, much like some crabs, or have other physiologically mechanisms to eject the toxin . . . → Read More: Why Oil-Laden Prey is Bad for Sea Birds
SSV Corwith Cramer The longest data series on plastic in the open sea was collected by the student-sailor-scientists of the Sea Education Association (SEA). SEA runs the Sea Semester, where undergraduate and high school students can learn oceanography, maritime history, and seamanship aboard one of two gorgeous tall ships, one in the Atlantic, one . . . → Read More: Journey to the North Atlantic Gyre with Plastics at SEA
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