This Monday, I’m giving a talk at the Central Valley Cafe Scientifique. Many thanks to Madhu Katti and Kaberi Kar Gupta for arranging this. And of course if you’re a Deep Sea News reader in the area, come on over and say hi! . . . → Read More: Science Cafe in Fresno CA: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  September 29th, 2012  3 comments  Scientist!  Deeplings, Meet the Deeplings, Science Cafe By Miriam Goldstein, on September 24th, 2012 16 comments Reviews mussel, Predation, Sea Star, time lapse This may be the coolest sea star predation video of all time. Watch helplessly from the mussel’s shell as the sea star’s stomach extrudes and begins to digest the mussel alive! Via Chris Mah. Echinoderms: Sea Star Time-lapse: Eating Mussel from Shape of Life on Vimeo. By Miriam Goldstein, on September 19th, 2012 6 comments Music marine music, Pirate, Sea shanty, Talk Like A Pirate Day Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day – but as you may know, here at Deep Sea News we are partial to a bit of shantying. (Enthusiasm being far more important than tunefulness.) So instead of talking like a pirate, I made a playlist with some of my favorite sea music. SING with me, people, . . . → Read More: Don’t talk like a pirate – SING like one
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 15th, 2012 4 comments Music, Pictures and Movies Gump Station, Mo'orea, Music Video, UNH It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE GLAMOUR. Fortunately both you and I can live vicariously through this fine music video from the marine scientists working out of the Gump Station on the French Polynesian island of . . . → Read More: Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 9th, 2012 One comment Pictures and Movies Mark Bertness, Music Video, salt marsh Mark Bertness’ salt marsh ecology lab at Brown University has a lengthy academic family tree – and in fact your friendly ocean bloggers Jarrett Byrnes, John Bruno, and yours truly are little twigs on it. So with that in mind, please enjoy this truly epic science music video from the latest Bertnessians, with a special . . . → Read More: Sunday happiness: the Bertness Rock Anthem
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 1st, 2012 2 comments Expeditions Antarctica, Cold Dark Benthos, deep sea, McMurdo, Microbes, scientific expedition, Scripps, Tonga Trench Expedition, Trench Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition team The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography student cruise, led by Scripps graduate student/chief scientist Rosa Leon Zayas. (and if anyone out there is looking for a kick-ass female Latina . . . → Read More: Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
By Miriam Goldstein, on August 29th, 2012 12 comments Oil Spills, The Basics Caribbean, Curacao, ecosystem services, Kristen Marhaver, mangroves, Oil Spill This is a guest post from Dr. Kristen Marhaver. Kristen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, who lives full-time and studies coral reefs on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. She is an occasional blogger, frequent photographer, and a 2012 TEDGlobal Fellow. After seeing her grim photos of the Curaçao oil . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Crude oil insults in the Caribbean
You never know what may be sitting on a table in the Scripps Collections. Last time, I wandered by the Benthic Invertebrates Collection, there was a giant scaleworm the size of a loaf of bread. This week, as I went about my work in the Pelagic Invertebrates Collection, there was a squid with GIANT SPIKES. . . . → Read More: Fearsome spiked tentacles of a deep-sea squid
By Miriam Goldstein, on August 20th, 2012 27 comments Plastic, Reviews, The Basics marine debris, Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic pollution The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein, 2010 EX1006 cruise. O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? – “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”, Wallace Stevens ————- I would like to . . . → Read More: Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
By Miriam Goldstein, on August 15th, 2012 3 comments Pictures and Movies funny, horrifying planet, planet earth, The Onion, tidepools Oh, the Onion. How we love you. (H/t Jarrett Byrnes). |
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