Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation¹s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches . . . → Read More: Losing Deep-Sea Science in the United States
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By Dr. M, on  March 15th, 2012  11 comments  Bringin' It, Editor's Desk, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment By RickMac, on February 1st, 2012 8 comments Bringin' It, Editor's Desk, Opinion, Ramblings, Scientist!  Climate Contrarianism, core values, Deeplings, Gulf Oil Spill, iron fertilization, Planktos, Scientist/Journalist, Scrutiny, tainted seafood Fiat lux Being a total dick on the web is easy. From the safe (and relatively anonymous) confines of your bedroom, place of work, mother’s basement, or Starbucks, and armed only with Internet access and the 1st Amendment, everyone can be a critic. Our brave new online world has given anyone with a keyboard a . . . → Read More: Awareness Through Scrutiny, Not Negativity: A DSN Core Value
By Dr. M, on November 8th, 2011 12 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Education, Opinion, Scientist! Air Tran, board room, call to action, conversation, Coral Reef Alliance, core values, dailogue, Georgia Aquarium, mission statement, ocean literacy, ocean science, outreach, purpose, vision statement If they know it, they will love it. If they love it, they will protect it. My wife, with over a decade of nonprofit experience, spoke those words to me six years ago . She was describing how she viewed what I was striving for with Deep-Sea News. Those words still ring true to me. . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Future of Deep-Sea News
By Dr. M, on June 8th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Cephalopods!, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Fishing, Industry & Government acidification, Architeuthis, climate change, conservation, Giant Squid, Overfishing, World Ocean Day How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the famous conservationist Sir Peter Scott. one of the founding members of WWF. The idea originated from a panda named Chi Chi transferred into the London Zoo in the same year . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 5th, 2011 8 comments Editor's Desk, Education, Evolution Brunswick County, creationism, Dover, evolution, Intelligent Design, Judge John Jones, Kitzmiller A couple weeks ago I was alerted to a newspaper article from the Brunswick Beacon, serving the Brunswick County next door to me in beautiful coastal North Carolina. The school commissioners there seemed to feel that evolution was “the biggest lie that’s ever been perpetrated on mankind.” Indeed, Chairman Bill Sue is “tired of my . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Sorry Brunswick County, ID STILL Not Science
By Dr. M, on March 21st, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Natural Disaster, Uncategorized Biodiversity, conservation, environmental impact, tsumai Figure from UNEP: These images show a combination of a rocky, hilly headland along with a small river delta and swampy coastal strip. A low-lying wetland area connects the northern and western ocean fronts. An integration of natural and agricultural ecosystems operating prior to the tsunami combined rice cultivation, and fish/shrimp ponds, alongside natural delta . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 8th, 2011 9 comments Editor's Desk Best of Zelnio, Science Communication, Steven Johnson, TED Talks We seem to be constantly evaluating how well are doing communicating science, as well we should! Good scientists need to be introspective to some extent and consistently give themselves a reality check. That is, in essence, how science works as a process. We accept or refute a hypothesis based on evidence, fine tune it or . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Communicating At, To Or With People?
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 24th, 2011 26 comments Adaptations, Editor's Desk, Fish, Fishing Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, fisheries, ocean acidification, pH, physiology Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833 to 1997, Stanhill (2001) calculated that the climate change science doubled every 11 years. The impact of carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean was recognized early on with measurements and . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries
By Dr. M, on January 11th, 2011 37 comments Conservation & Environment, Editor's Desk, Fishing, Industry & Government, Megavertebrate endangered, Iceland, IUCN, Minke, Red List, whaling A week ago I received an email that sparked this post. An Appeal to the Public to Not Visit Iceland Until Icelandic Whaling Stops Online environmental activist and CEO of FISH4TRAVEL, INC., Robert Bennett, is asking thousands of people every day not to visit Iceland until the country stops killing whales. A website named rescuethewhales.org was created to . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: Is Icelandic Whaling Bad?
Dear DSN staff and readers, 2010 has been a great year for us. We hope you have enjoyed the new additions to the place (Miriam, Rickmac and Dr Bik) as much as Dr M and I have. Lots of posts on lots of different things ocean related, dominated necessarily by the oil catastrophe. We will . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Merry Squidmas!
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