[View the story "A Timeline of Cameron's Dive & the Power of Twitter" on Storify] Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}[View the story "A Timeline of Cameron's Dive & the Power of Twitter" on Storify] Broadcast Spawn!Tweet
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By para_sight, on  March 26th, 2012  36 comments  Bringin' It, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion, Tweets, Vessels and Equipment  alvin, Challenger Deep, Deep Challenger, Deep Sea Challenge, exploration, hadal, James Cameron, marianas trench, National Geographic, ocean exploration, submersible This post is co-authored by Al Dove and Craig McClain In the 1989 James Cameron sci-fi movie The Abyss, there’s a scene when Ed Harris’ character dons a special environmental suit that allows him to breathe an oxygen-laden liquid. Thus protected from the risks of crushing deep-sea pressures (no air = no voids to collapse), . . . → Read More: James Cameron’s Deep Sea Challenge: a scientific milestone or rich guy’s junket?
#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Broadcast Spawn!Tweet In a historic solo dive to the bottom of the world, famed filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron reached the “Challenger Deep,” the lowest part of the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench, on Monday, March 26, at 7:52 a.m. local time (Sunday, March 25, 5:52 p.m. Eastern Time). The depth was recorded at . . . → Read More: Cameron Reaches the Challenger Deep
By Dr. M, on March 15th, 2012 11 comments Bringin' It, Editor's Desk, Expeditions, New Research, Opinion, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment 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
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 para_sight, on March 8th, 2012 11 comments Expeditions, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Challenger Deep, Deep Sea Challenge, exploration, James Cameron, marianas trench, ocean exploration, Race to the Bottom, Submerisible Folks, it’s on! Some of you may know of the “race to the bottom”, a confluence of several missions aimed at returning humans to the deepest part of the oceans, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, south of Guam. The teams include one sponsored by Richard Branson, one from Sylvia Earle’s sub company DOER, . . . → Read More: The biggest deep sea exploration news in 50 years?
By Dr Bik, on January 10th, 2012 5 comments Evolution, New Research adaptation, evolution, Gene, genomics, natural selection, plants, seagrasses I seem to develop these weird, unfounded hatreds of various things. For example: I hate blue dinnerware. Not every shade of blue dinnerware (I LOVE prussian blue glassware), but I severely dislike those particular gray-blue shades reminiscent of country Americana. I can’t explain it–the mere sight of plates like these makes me angry. I would . . . → Read More: I hate plants, but seagrasses are awesome
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 Dr. M, on December 15th, 2011 3 comments Biodiversity, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vent, Kiwa hirsuta, Kiwa puravida, scaly-foot snail, yeti crab Yeti crab clambers over a scaly-foot snail You heard here first people, another new species of Yeti crab may be out there! Jon Copley just sent this message along. Well hey, a couple of weeks ago we found yet more yeti crabs out here at vents on the SW Indian Ridge, different in morphology to . . . → Read More: Another New Yeti Crab!!??
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