This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is a tale of cause and effect in the deep sea woven by threads of hypotheses held together by the loom of targeted sampling efforts and multiple lines of evidence. You . . . → Read More: Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
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By Dr. M, on  January 18th, 2010  2 comments  Ecology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  active gas seepage, Carbon, carbonate, Chemoautotrophy, Coral, deep sea, energy, food chains, gas, Gulf of Mexico, Lophelia pertusa, Methane Seeps, Nitrogen, oil, Open Lab 2009, Provanna Sculpta, Stable Isotopes, sulfur, Trophic Ecology By Dr. M, on August 10th, 2009 7 comments Conservation & Environment, Vessels and Equipment boats, carbon dioxide, energy, ferry, Hong Kong, hybrid, Prius, solar power, Solar Sailor The Solar Sailor front diagonal view. Photo courtesy of Solar Sailor In November, Hong Kong’s harbor will see four solar-powered ferries. On a sunny day, 3/4 of ferries’ energy needs will be met by solar power. On a “typical sunny day” they will operate mainly using the sun’s energy, and also with liquid petroleum gas…The . . . → Read More: Solar-Powered Ferries
By Dr. M, on June 29th, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment climate change, energy, global warming, legistation From the New York Times… The House passed legislation on Friday intended to address global warming and transform the way the nation produces and uses energy. The vote was the first time either house of Congress had approved a bill meant to curb the heat-trapping gases scientists have linked to climate change. The legislation, which . . . → Read More: Moving forward too slowly?
By Dr. M, on May 20th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Aliens of the Deep, chemical dependence, chemical energy, cold seep, Craig Young, energy, food, food availability, food chains, food sinking, Hydrothermal Vent, James Cameron, Jon Copley, life cycle, Paul Tyler, photosynthetically-derived food, Reproduction, Seasonality, sex, Sex Week, Shrimp Post by Jon Copley. Dr. Jon Copley is a lecturer in marine ecology at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. He is also director of SciConnect Limited, a company providing training in science communication and media skills. Jon is an avid deep sea explorer and studies the reproductive ecology of deep sea invertebrates, especially . . . → Read More: Sex At Vents: Lights On or Off?
By Peter Etnoyer, on March 23rd, 2009 2 comments Conservation & Environment conservation, earth hour, energy, marine conservation Cities around the world shut the lights at 8:30pm Saturday. The WWF sponsored Earth Hour event calls on you to shut the lights for an hour this Saturday at 8:30 pm local time. This is one of the most compelling experiments of recent times, an exercise in political will. The event will take place around . . . → Read More: Earth Hour goes darkly this Saturday night
By Dr. M, on March 12th, 2009 5 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, New Research anthropogenic, Biodiversity, biological and chemical weapons, conservation, deep sea, ecologist, economics, energy, energy flows, Environmental Issues, Eugene Odum, famous ecologist, marine conservation, policy, Savannah River Plant, tactical oil spills, war, warfare Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors state “among human activities causing ecological change, ware is both intensive and far-reaching. Yet environmental research related to warfare is limited in depth and fragmented by discipline.” The paper is . . . → Read More: Warfare Ecology
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 One comment Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government Drilling, energy, gas, Obama, offshore drilling, oil Rick notes that… US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today his intention to shelve plans passed on the final business day of the Bush administration to open much of the U.S. coast to oil drilling, including 130 million acres off California’s coast from Mendocino to San Diego. To those of you from the . . . → Read More: Yeah!
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