This is Guest Post from Dr. Daniel Jones a deep-sea biologist with the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom and Project Coordinator for SERPENT (described below). Dan research focuses on how organisms in the deep sea are impacted by both natural and human disturbances. Drilling for oil is far from rare, even in deep . . . → Read More: Can Beasts of the Deep Survive the Impact of Drilling for Oil?
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By Dr. M, on  December 18th, 2012  3 comments  Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Industry & Government, New Research, Oil Spills, Organisms, Scientist!  Daniel Jones, Disturbance, Drilling, offshore drilling, oil, SERPENT By Kevin Zelnio, on December 11th, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Climate Change, Ecology, New Research, Scientist! California, climate change, Coastal, Ecology, mussel, oyster, Research, Sea Star, starfish, University of California Was just sent these great informative short videos about research being done to understand how climate change affects coastal communities. Coastal organisms live in areas with much day to day variation. There are the changing tides, the amount sun exposure, and also shade from tidal zone seaweeds and rock crevices. This makes coastal animals, like . . . → Read More: California Coastal Climate Change Research
By Miriam Goldstein, on November 19th, 2012 One comment Conservation & Environment, Education climate change, doom, Environmental Issues, Sam Musher This is a guest post from Sam Musher. Sam is a middle school librarian and children’s lit blogger. A steady diet of post-apocalyptic fiction made her an environmentalist at a tender age. (She’s pretty sure we’re all doomed.) Having known her almost that long, I can confirm that she has, as her blog claims, been . . . → Read More: Guest post: The March…OF SCIENCE
By para_sight, on November 19th, 2012 One comment Fishing, Opinion & Editorial, The Basics Finning, shark finning, sharks Kim Bosco Mo has a piece in Huff Po Canada today on whether banning shark fin soup is an equitable way to protect sharks. I would have answered in a comment on their site but it limits the comments to 250 words and requires you grant HP access to your Twitter account AND set up . . . → Read More: Shark finning: a response to Kim Bosco Mo
By para_sight, on October 23rd, 2012 3 comments Fishing, Microbes, New Research Bacteria, immunology, lobsters, shell disease Most folks I know aren’t shy about crunching into a nice red American lobster and dipping that white flaky meat in some molten butter, and who can blame them? But what if the lobster in question looked like this: Or THIS: What you are seeing is the (not very creatively named) shell disease of lobsters, . . . → Read More: The mystery of lobster shell disease
By Miriam Goldstein, on October 19th, 2012 18 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government Canada, Haida Gwaii, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton bloom, Planktos, Russ George, satellite imagery News of an rogue iron-dumping experiment off British Columbia, Canada, broke in the Guardian on Monday, and was followed up by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and io9. Dr. M explained why this was appalling news, and ever since we’ve been having a vigorous discussion in the secret Deep Sea News lair on . . . → Read More: Satellite imagery of the rogue Canadian iron dumping experiment
By Dr. M, on October 15th, 2012 38 comments Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Industry & Government Canada, carbon credit, climate change, geosequestration, Haida Gwaii, iron fertilization, plankton, Planktos, Russ George The Planktos Incident continues. Just when I thought it had died. Russ George, former head of the defunct Planktos, has decided to, despite the scientific community asking for a more cautious and sensible approach and international moratoriums, dump 100 tons of iron into the ocean. In discussing the DSN core value of Awareness Through Scrutiny, . . . → Read More: Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the Ocean
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 9th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Reviews, Social Sciences fishing, history, Jeff Bolster, maritime, Resources, The Mortal Sea The Mortal Sea, by University of New Hampshire maritime environmental history professor Jeff Bolster, seems to be an interesting book up many of our readers’ alley! I haven’t read it, but you can find out more about it at its Amazon page (priced for the general consumer!) and the interesting descriptive video below from UNH . . . → Read More: The Mortal Sea
By Miriam Goldstein, on October 3rd, 2012 4 comments Expeditions, Plastic Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic pollution, Robert C. Seamans, Sea Education Association My tall-ship-sailing buddies at Sea Education Association are headed out for a special Pacific plastics cruise tomorrow aboard the 134-foot brigantine SSV Robert C. Seamans. (Disclosure: I am totally biased cause I’ve sailed with them twice and think it is the best thing ever. Also, they’re collecting samples for me on this cruise. Thanks . . . → Read More: Plastics expedition departs for North Pacific
By Dr Bik, on September 13th, 2012 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, New Research economics, energy, genomics, integrated data, Metabolism, Microbes, recession, Temperature This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not that I’m not interested – these fields are fascinating and scientifically important. But on a day-to-day basis, when I’m overloaded with data analysis, grant proposals, and a bursting inbox, I . . . → Read More: Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
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