Guest Post: Nursery Rhymes for Skates
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By , on July 17th, 2012 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, Fish, Organisms   , , , , , , , ,  

Our colleague John Hocevar is out in the Bering Sea right now studying the seafloor communities there with Greenpeace and the Waitt Institute. John has shared new finds with us before and was kind enough to share a really cool new discovery with DSN readers! Enjoy! ————————————————————————————– A Little Skate Nursery Rhyme Jackie and her . . . → Read More: Guest Post: Nursery Rhymes for Skates

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Ghost Ships
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By , on October 29th, 2009 One comment   Carnivals & Link Love, Social Sciences   , , , , , , , , , ,  

The Baychimo, image from Wikimedia Commons Top Tenz as a list of 12 ghost ships. Just kidding, it is just ten. My favorite… One of the most amazing cases of a real-life ghost ship concerns the Baychimo, a cargo steamer that was abandoned and left to drift the seas near Alaska for nearly forty years. . . . → Read More: Ghost Ships

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Once Again, I Called It
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By , on July 18th, 2009 4 comments   Conservation & Environment, Organisms   , , , , , , ,  

Like I said, the Great Alaskan Blob was Palin algae. Preliminary results indicate that it doesn’t look toxic. See Time Magazine: “Algae blooms,” she says. “It’s sort of like a swimming pool that hasn’t been cleaned in a while.” The blob, Konar said, is a microalgae made up of “billions and billions of individuals.” “We’ve . . . → Read More: Once Again, I Called It

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“… some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.”
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By , on July 16th, 2009 One comment   Organisms   , , , , ,  

Those were the words echoed by U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer, in reference to a strange substance floating in the Arctic near Alaska. ” The stuff is “gooey” and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, Brower said. “It’s pitch black when it hits ice and . . . → Read More: “… some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism.”

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