By Kevin Zelnio, on  March 24th, 2011 Social Sciences Aegean Sea, Aristotle, Azoic Hypothesis, Best of Zelnio, chlorophyll, currents, deep sea, Dredge, Edward Forbes, exploration, Pliny the Elder, Primary Production, Robert Hooke, Socrates āPrevious Lesson: Lessons from the Census of Marine Life While the Census of Marine Life may be the most recent call to survey the ocean, deep-sea exploration has a rich, paradigm-shifting history. It has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: colorful characters, high seas action, the drama of antagonistic actions between “men of honor”, . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Early Paradigms and Exploration
By Dr. M, on  August 1st, 2010 Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms, Social Sciences 'Oro, ahu, architecture, Biomass, Carbon, chlorophyll, climate change, Coral, flux, global warming, Gulf of Mexico, marae, Mo'orea, phytoplankton, POC, Polynesia, SST, The Tide Pool, Thorium An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! A new paper by Boyce, Lewis, and Worm from Dalhousie University, provides clear evidence of decreasing phytoplankton biomass over the last century. The researchers used a blended dataset of ~450,000 measurements of chlorophyll consisting of field measurements of . . . → Read More: The Tide Pool: Loss of Phytoplankton, War Gods and Corals, and Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity
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