My marine debris buddy Nick Mallos of Ocean Conservancy pointed me to this beautiful animated model by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner of the University of Hawaii. This animation shows how wind affects the rate at which debris from the Japanese tsunami moves across the Pacific. It is a mathematical model that incorporates a great . . . → Read More: How wind-blown Japanese tsunami debris may move across the Pacific
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  August 14th, 2012  6 comments  Natural Disaster, Plastic  Honshu tsunami, Jan Hafner, Japanese tsunami, marine debris, Nikolai Maximenko, plastic pollution, SCUD model, tsunami, windage By Miriam Goldstein, on August 3rd, 2012 9 comments Pictures and Movies Aerial Photo, Blue Whale, Eddie Kisfaludy, poop Behold! The biggest poop on earth! Well, we don’t actually know if it’s the actual biggest poop, but it is a poop that came out of the biggest animal ever to exist on Earth. The majestic poop of the mighty blue whale! Photo by Eddie Kisfaludy. This photo was taken from a small plane off . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Biggest Poop On Earth (possibly)
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 30th, 2012 13 comments Organisms algae, algae bloom, green streaks, La Jolla, San Diego, Scripps, Tetraselmis If you were at the beach in San Diego this weekend, especially off La Jolla Shores, you might have seen streaks of green sea foam. Here’s a stunning photo of the foam off Scripps pier, taken by Eddie Kisfaludy from a small plane 1,500 feet above the ocean. Streaks of green foam (Tetraselmis spp.) off . . . → Read More: What is the green sea foam off La Jolla Shores (San Diego)?
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 26th, 2012 One comment Environmental Sciences calving, glacier, maritime, monster waves From gCaptain: Tourists get the full experience of the power of a calving glacier while on a boat trip off Ilulissat, Greenland. Fortunately, and somewhat amazingly, nobody was hurt. Scary part starts at 0:50. By Miriam Goldstein, on July 18th, 2012 11 comments Organisms horror, Polychaete, polychaetes, scaleworm, supergiant Giant isopods and vampire squid are sooooo last year. I bet you’re even sleeping through the night now without imagining sixgill sharks tearing at your carcass. Fear not! Or should I say – FEAR MORE. I am here with an entirely new species to fuel your fevered nightmares. Meet the giant Antarctic scaleworm Eulagisca. Last . . . → Read More: New nightmare fuel: the giant scaleworm Eulagisca
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 16th, 2012 11 comments Education, Scientist! bivalve, Clam, media coverage, Media Hype, misconceptions, Science Outreach, viral video Last week, a clam video went viral. (Get your mind out of the gutter, internet! I mean a bivalve! A mollusc! A lamellibranch!) For people who know how clams actually live, the misconceptions of this video are obvious. That’s not the clam’s tongue, that’s its foot. The clam is trying to use its foot to . . . → Read More: Secrets of the clam tongue: a case study in opportunistic science outreach
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 11th, 2012 6 comments Art Cephalopod, Comics, San Diego Comic Con, SDCC, squid As I mentioned in our Firefly post, I’ll be covering San Diego Comic Con for Deep Sea News. I’ll actually be attending the convention tomorrow, but here’s a little preview of some cephalopodic comic goodness, courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. Over on my Google+, Danna Staaf has the best reaction: “Maybe it’s a the plaintive . . . → Read More: Apparently hell is populated by squid.
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 10th, 2012 8 comments Expeditions, Geology deep sea drilling, Geology, JOIDES Resolution, K-T Extinction, PETM There are scientists floating in the middle of the North Atlantic who are holding the dinosaur extinction in their hands. Really. Here it is: This may look like an alien landscape, but it’s actually a section of deep sea mud from the drilling ship Joides Resolution. When the lighter-toned sediment on the left was deposited, . . . → Read More: Drilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mud
By Miriam Goldstein, on July 2nd, 2012 20 comments Vessels and Equipment ocean science, research platform, Research Vessel, SeaOrbiter, ship I swear, I don’t want to be a nay-saying science crankypants. I want to dream big and have my own submarine and frolic on the Deep Sea News private island hideout. I don’t want to be the lab-coated finger-shaking wench that crushes new ideas before they are even born. But sometimes a girl just . . . → Read More: SeaOrbiter: amazing breakthrough or cool-looking boondoggle?
By Miriam Goldstein, on June 28th, 2012 42 comments Life At Sea, Reviews firefly, Joss Whedon, life at sea, science fiction, Serenity, TV It’s no secret that we here at Deep Sea News are huge nerds. I can hear the outraged cries through my computer screen – “No, not the Deeplings!” – but guys, IT’S TRUE. What you probably don’t know is that Dr. M and I are HUGE Firefly fans. (For those of you who don’t know, . . . → Read More: Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly
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