Pacific bluefin wants your soul. Photo via OpenCage/Wikimedia There’s nothing like a terrifying headline to point out how differently scientists and the public see the world. On Monday, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS) found that Pacific bluefin tuna had carried detectable radiation from . . . → Read More: Detectable but not hazardous: radioactive marine life of Fukushima
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  June 1st, 2012  2 comments  Fishing  Bluefin, Fukushima, Honshu tsunami, Megafauna, Radiation, tsunami, tuna By para_sight, on December 22nd, 2011 9 comments Uncategorized core values, culture, culture of science, Education, Megafauna, ocean literacy, Open Access, Science Communication, Science Outreach When the DSN crew gathered for our inaugural retreat recently, one of the core values we agreed on was “promoting ocean literacy”. This value is something that just about everyone in marine science agrees on (example, example, example), but what does it really mean? Marine scientists and marine educators have an intuitive sense of what . . . → Read More: Promoting Ocean Literacy – a DSN Core Value
By Dr. M, on December 23rd, 2006 Leave a comment The Basics Bacteria, Macrofauna, Megafauna, Meiofauna I personally love doing this series because it allows me to explore and solidify a variety of ideas I mull over on daily basis. Previously in this series I have discussed the difficulty of sampling, the variety of habitats, linkages to the oceans surface, body size, conservation, undiscovered species, biodiversity, unexplored regions, the large spatial . . . → Read More: ARCHIVE: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #11 A Variety of Organisms Inhabit the Deep
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