Dear Readers, Mint Julep In the summer of ‘06 I, a Southern gentleman in my finest white linen suit*, find myself in the lower portion of England. The heat smothers me. Now if I found myself in the land of Delta Blues, I would quench my thirst with a mint julep. But alas, I’m in . . . → Read More: A Southerner Relays Tales of Ship Wrecks and Worms
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By Dr. M, on  April 13th, 2011  2 comments  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  chemosynthesis, Deep South, Hydrothermal Vent, Lammellibranchia, Methane Seep, ship wreck, Southern Boy, U-boat, World War I By Dr. M, on February 2nd, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Uncategorized Biodiversity, methane, Methane Seep, mud volcano via “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea There’s a new island in the azure waters off Pakistan, but you might want to hold off on vacation planning: The tiny dot is a mud volcano that will likely disappear before it sees 1,001 Arabian nights. Pakistani fishers reported the new mud volcano in the Arabian . . . → Read More: “Gooey” New Mud Volcano Erupts From Arabian Sea
By Dr. M, on September 23rd, 2010 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Ecology, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls food, lobster, magnetic field, Methane Seep, mollusk, navigation, nematode, Parasite, sex, The Tide Pool, turtle An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the potential exchanges of species in cold methane seeps across the Atlantic Ocean from the Congo to the Gulf of Mexico. By culling data from the literature, the authors demonstrate, despite . . . → Read More: Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
By Dr. M, on August 23rd, 2010 One comment Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls cold seep, hydrates, jason, methane, methane ice, Methane Seep Video (link) from the remote operated vehicle Jason of methane-rich bubbles streaming from the seafloor on an active seep area on Hydrate Ridge just offshore of Newport, Oregon. Methane seeps are created where faults in in the sediment allow methane buried in deep deposits to seep upward toward the seafloor. This methane can form ices known . . . → Read More: Methane Bubbles
By Dr. M, on August 19th, 2010 5 comments Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Hydrocarbons, Methane Seep, microbial, oil plume, Oil Spill, oxygen, petroleum, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute BP want’s to deny the presence of a deepwater oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico. The very oil plume both predicted by models published in 2003. The very oil plume that the massive amounts of dispersant injected at depth created to prevent oil from washing ashore. Even the government wants to deny the existence of . . . → Read More: Scientists With Data Agree…A Deepwater Oil Plume Exists in the Gulf
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 22nd, 2010 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Expeditions Antarctica, Clam Beds, cold seep, David Honig, glacier, Icerberg, LARISSA, Larsen Ice Shelf, Methane Seep, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, Ross Ice Shelf, sea ice, Vesicomyidae, Weddell Sea 
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 7th, 2010 3 comments Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment Antarctica, cold seep, David Honig, Drake Passage, HMS James Cook, LARISSA, Larsen Ice Shelf, Methane Seep, R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – LARISSA Begins
By Kevin Zelnio, on July 25th, 2009 5 comments Uncategorized active gas seepage, Best of Zelnio, Carbon, Coral, Ecology, energy source, food chains, Gulf of Mexico, Lophelia, methane, Methane Seep, Nitrogen, Provanna, seep, Stable Isotope, sulfur, trophic level 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 see, dear readers, once upon a time existed an observation. Hovland (1989) noticed along the Norwegian coastline that carbonate reefs occurred in . . . → Read More: Deep Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 31st, 2009 One comment Vessels and Equipment Brine Pool, Florida, gas and oil exploration, gas hydrate, Green Canyon, Gulf coast, Gulf of Mexico, Hydrocarbon Seep, Johnson Sea Link, Methane Seep, oil lease block, R/V Seward Johnson II, seep, submersible I’m so excited that in such a short amount of time the Save Our Subs & Ships effort have already reached their goal and are now setting their sights higher and want to get 5000 signatures. Thanks to Leroy Nunez from Florida for helping out the deep sea community by putting his voice to work. . . . → Read More: 1000 Signatures for Save Our Subs!
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