Jai Ranganathan speaks to me about the biodiversity of the deep sea and my paper from last year. More than 70 percent of the earth is ocean floor, an environment as lethal to human life as outer space. With pressures hundreds of times stronger than on the surface, no sunlight, and near freezing temperatures, it . . . → Read More: Curiouser Podcast: Life Under Constant Pressure
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By Dr. M, on  February 6th, 2011  Leave a comment  Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Reviews  deep sea, Organisms, Podcast, radio interview By Miriam Goldstein, on January 18th, 2011 4 comments Reviews Blue Whale, Lady Gaga, Music Video, video Blame Jarrett Byrnes. UBC.ZOOLOGY.GAGA.WHALE from Matt Siegle on Vimeo. Today we unleash a new feature for all of our followers. Deep-Sea News Weekly is a regularly updated Twitter-based newspaper based on the dialogue of 50+ marine scientists, marine research institutes, and ocean conservation organizations. Are you an ocean Twitter? Leave me a comment with your Twitter handle below to be added to the . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea News Weekly
After consulting a crack team of specialists the Deeplings at DSN, here are the books, in no certain order, we feel should provide the backbone of the essential ocean reading collection. There are many others I am sure we are missing. Feel free to add any you think should have been here below in the . . . → Read More: The Ocean Bookshelf
Microcosmos by Brandon Broll. Click to purchases at amazon.com Microcosmos: Discovering the World Through Microscopic Images from 20 X to Over 22 Million X Magnification by Brandon Broll Microcosmos is a collection of unbelievable microscopic photography from the archives of The Science Photo Library assembled by science journalist Brandon Broll. In a visually fascinating whirlwind, . . . → Read More: Microcosmos: a Celebration of the Very Teensy
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 3rd, 2010 3 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms, Reviews Best of Zelnio, Gecarcoidea natalis, Great Migrations, migration, National Geographic, Red Crab, Rockhopper Penguin Christmas Island red crab migration. Each year they travel from the forest to the seashore to breed. National Geographic embarked on an ambitious two and a half year film project, covering over 420,000 square miles, and telling the story of animal movements for a wide variety of animals. There are several awestruck moments. One of . . . → Read More: Great Migrations
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 1st, 2010 Leave a comment Fishing, Reviews Farallones, Harvesting, Sea Urchin, shark, Uni A fascinating 10 minute short film. Hat tip to KaylinQ. Info from the youtube account: Dir. Roger Teich / USA / 2004 Ron Elliott is the only sea urchin diver at the Farallon Islands off the coast of Northern California, where he shares the water with big Great White Sharks, which is just the . . . → Read More: Picking Urchins From the Devil’s Teeth
By Dr. M, on October 13th, 2010 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Reviews every living thing, Linnaeus, rob dunn, Science Writing Another book I just recently finished was Rob Dunn’s masterfully crafted “Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys.” One word could describe this book, impressive. Dunn’s control of language and narrative flow is rarely seen in popular science books. Through the common thread of human’s quest to find, . . . → Read More: Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
By Dr. M, on October 13th, 2010 5 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Reviews Andrew Bleiman, Books, Zooborns, Zooillogix Hopefully you have been following ZooBorns, Andrew Bleiman’s sticky sweet tribute to all newly birthed and cute in the world’s zoos and aquariums. I personally prefer my zoology with a not so subtle hint of pubescent adolescence culminating in locker room humor, so I regular Andrew and his brother’s other blog Zooillogix. Andrew with coauthor . . . → Read More: Zooborns
By RickMac, on October 5th, 2010 8 comments Conservation & Environment, Reviews climate change, communication, fail, PSAs, wtf On Sunday October 10, 2010, people across the world are planning to stage local community action in order to reduce global CO2 and other greenouse gas emissions. On the morning of September 30th, 2010, 10:10 UK–the British organization responsible for the project–debuted a promotional video titled “No Pressure” on the 10:10 website. In less than . . . → Read More: Under Pressure
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