Got global bathymetric data? Check? Got a 3D printer? Check. Then you can make yourself a model of the ocean that you can hold in your hand! This graphic artist chose not to visualize the nooks and crannies on the sea floor, but the volume of water that makes up our oceans. As a kid . . . → Read More: How to hold the entire ocean in your hands

Visualization Vednesdays highlights graphics and movies created by professional scientists and explains the science behind the visual. I’ll be focusing on physical oceanography cause they be my peeps, but if you know of another great ocean visualization please send it my way. But, there are some rules. These videos have to be made by the . . . → Read More: Visualization Vednesdays: Where has all the sea ice gone?

If you haven’t seen this video, than you must! It is an amazing intersection of human adaptation with oceanic phenomena, in this case the Inuit of Kangiqsujuaq, Quebec and how they exploit the large tides to collect mussels under sea ice. I stumbled across it as a free download for a long plane ride. What . . . → Read More: Tides, Ice, and Mussels: The science behind the harvest

I’m no expert on vertebrates but I do remember somewhere in my undergraduate learning that a distinguishing feature of mammals was the mammary glands. Those o’ so important glands that provide nourishment to offspring. But what does an animal do if it doesn’t have access to milk producing glands. In snails, which I know better, . . . → Read More: If only fish had breasts

On the first day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: My own private ROV On the second day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: Two turtles love, and My own private ROV On the third day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: Three sea pens Two turtles love, . . . → Read More: The twelve days of Christmas – a marine biological edition