An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! ———————————- The western Pacific is broken land, plates…
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Chilean marine science devastated by earthquake
UPDATE: The Consortium for Ocean Leadership has set up a University of Concepcion Oceanographic Relief Fund. You can donate here. Along with the lives lost…
View More Chilean marine science devastated by earthquakeThree ways of looking at the Chilean tsunami
Last week’s earthquake in Chile sent a tsunami throughout the Pacific. It was devastating for coastal Chile, but the waves were weaker than expected all…
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What is the origin story of deep-sea organisms? For decades, we thought shallow coastal waters were the cradle of marine life repeatedly pumping species into…
View More Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life“Ya Gotta Respect the Ocean, Its Just One of Those Things…”
And you also need to heed the warnings when they tell you to get off the seawall! Thankfully no one was killed this weekend when…
View More “Ya Gotta Respect the Ocean, Its Just One of Those Things…”Is Antarctica Melting?
Hell yes
View More Is Antarctica Melting?Deepest Underwater Volcanic Eruption
All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean near Samoa the previous summer. The lava erupting from the…
View More Deepest Underwater Volcanic EruptionDead Zones Are Here To Stay
In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was…
View More Dead Zones Are Here To StaySamoan Tsunami Survivor
Neil Lumsden was out surfing when out of nowhere the recent earthquake struck the deep sea off of Samoa. We had no warning, being out…
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