From Macedonia International News Agency (follow link for more and picture of the terrifying shark): The Serbian hero was too drunk to remember what had happened, though one of his friends who witnessed the incident explained it all for the Belgrade based media. Dragan Stevic was dubbed by the Egyptian media as “Shark El Sheikh” … . . . → Read More: Drunk Man Kills Shark by Jumping onto its Head
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  December 17th, 2010  14 comments  Bringin' It, Fish, Megavertebrate  Drunk, Egypt, Serbs, shark In case you missed the first installment. Here is the second installment of Atten’bore’ough’s I Hate Nature series. (NSFW) . . . → Read More: TGIF: I Hate Nature 2
Drunk Octopus wants to fight you. Via this isn’t happiness & AC-F. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Drunk Octopus Wants To Fight You
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 17th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Evolution, New Research, New Species Best of Zelnio, bone, MBARI, Nutrition, Osedax, Radula, Rubyspira, Trophic Ecology, Whale Fall You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way back in the 2000s. Now though, all the rage is the BONE SNAIL! Yeah, that’s right the BoNe SnAiL!!! Its cooler than cool, just trust me. The Bone Snail … . . . → Read More: Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
The UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) Second Committee recently concluded its 65th session. To my surprise, the UNGA adopted a resolution on coral reefs during the proceedings. The Assembly made a few other references to the declining state of global ocean health … . . . → Read More: UN Adopts Resolutions on Coral Reefs and Marine Biodiversity
Alvin this week will begin a 40 million dollar overhaul. The biggest retrofit in its 40 years of diving. Improvement include: A new personnel titanium sphere with improved ergonomics will be integrated into Alvin’s modified frame. The new 6,500 meter-depth-rated sphere is the biggest technical challenge of the Alvin upgrade project. It must be able to withstand immense … . . . → Read More: Alvin: From Old School to New School
By Dr Bik, on December 16th, 2010 One comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Breaking news from my lab bench this morning: I started processing our post-spill samples collected closest to the blown out Macondo well, and lo and behold–oil in the cores. I knew there was oil in the mud even before I saw the sheen, since the core smelled like diesel–I’ve smelled a lot of deep-sea … . . . → Read More: I just found oil in my core!
A special hat tip to Twisted Bacteria for bringing this to my attention Every December, the journal Environmental Microbiology publishes a collection of humorous quotes made by peer reviewers while assessing manuscripts submitted to the journal. You can read some favorites over there. Some of mine are: The lack of negative controls. . . . results in … . . . → Read More: Peer Review May Increase Mortality Rates
By Dr. M, on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Carbon, carbon cycling, carbon sequestration, Geology, Hydrothermal Vent, magma, ridge, sill, Spreading Center, volcanism I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten magma to form new crust are o’ so popular these days. Spreading plate boundaries…meh. What I do like is new research basically stating, and I am paraphrasing here, that spreading … . . . → Read More: I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
By Dr. M, on December 15th, 2010 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Weather climate, climate change, Danny Richter, diatoms, Op-Ed, Scripps DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems from an interest in their potential to affect global biogeochemical cycles, and ultimately the climate. He is active in attempting to influence national climate policy by lobbying in California and in … . . . → Read More: Where’s the Ocean Love?
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