Dead pelicans on the beach in Peru. Img: The Guardian As many as 900 dolphins and over 4,000 pelicans have washed up dead on the beaches of northern Peru in the last couple of months, (see news coverage here, here and here), leading to a flurry of activity as various authorities and other interested parties . . . → Read More: What is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?
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By para_sight, on  May 9th, 2012  2 comments  Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Megavertebrate, Opinion, Weather  dolphins, Pelicans, Peru, UME By Miriam Goldstein, on May 5th, 2012 8 comments Best of, Conservation & Environment, Natural Disaster, Weird Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, spam, tsunami Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as is. Who wouldn’t trust Savy Pappy with a Fukushima reactor? I’m sending them $100,000 right now! American People, Global Community, Ladies and Gentlemen We are the Freedom consultants firm. [address]. We . . . → Read More: Amazing Fukushima-related spam
By RickMac, on March 29th, 2012 One comment Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Deep Sea 101, Environmental Sciences, Gadgets & Gear, Mining, New Research, Oil Spills Challenger Deep, conservation, Deep Challenger, Deep Horizon, deep sea, exploration, HOV, James Cameron, ROV, SkyTruth, submersibles Image on left: Seafloor Production Tool (SPT) that will be operated at a depth of 1600 meters off the coast of Papua New Guinea by Nautilus Minerals to extract copper and gold from high grade seafloor massive sulphide deposits. Image on Right: Computer generated Bucket-Wheel Excavator used to extract unobtanium from Pandora in James . . . → Read More: James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?
By Dr. M, on March 9th, 2012 7 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Evolution, Geology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Paleobiology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls We as humans have three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? The answers to these thrust at the core of our humanity and uniqueness. Through science we seek out replies to these inquiries. The Drake Equation In 1960 the National Academy of Sciences asked . . . → Read More: What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
By RickMac, on January 23rd, 2012 6 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Opinion, Ramblings causality, conservation strategy, Finning, sharks White-tip reef shark, Fiji © 2011 Angelo Villagomez Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the show’s writers often resort to lines such as, “It’s better if we don’t talk about this too much.” Consider another example of . . . → Read More: For Want Of A Shark…
Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Archie Teuthis, on December 30th, 2011 Leave a comment Geology, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, American Geophysical Union, Book, chemosynthesis, Colin Schultz, Hydrothermal Vents, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, minerals, Seafloor Spreading, Spreading Center, TAG, Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 188, 2010. Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough to let Deep Sea News reprint the interview for our readers! Peter Rona is a legend in hydrothermal vent research. Colin Schultz, Diversity of . . . → Read More: GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2011 16 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Uncategorized beta diversity, Carbon, deep sea, diversity, flux, marine snow Oh the dark deep sea is frightful,
But the food not so delightful,
But since we’ve got no place to go,
Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! The deep-sea floor is a patch mosaic of habitats In the late 1960’s, two marine biologists, Howard Sanders and Robert . . . → Read More: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
By Miriam Goldstein, on December 19th, 2011 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Natural Disaster, Plastic marine debris, OSCURS model, physical oceanography, SCUD model, tsunami Estimation of debris path created with OSCURS model. The colors are years after the tsunami. Click through for more information. Map courtesy of J. Churnside (NOAA OAR) and created through Google. Debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami is headed towards Hawaii and the North American west coast. For those concerned, several new sources of information . . . → Read More: Japanese tsunami debris link roundup
By Dr. M, on December 16th, 2011 One comment Environmental Sciences, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Bacteria, Christmas, hydrogen sulfide, Hydrothermal Vent, marine snow, MBARI From Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute…In the ocean, there are places where it looks like it is snowing. These magical places are near undersea volcanic activity. The snow particles are clumps of bacteria that use chemicals to make food. Chemicals they use include hydrogen sulfide, which is toxic to virtually all other life. Most . . . → Read More: TGIF: Marine Snow
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