DSN’s vey on Miriam G. is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle. Head over to read about her recent work on the Pacific Garbage Patch aboard the Okeanos Explorer. We at DSN are brimming with pride at her accomplishments. “For a thousand miles of the open ocean we sampled it all,” said Miriam Goldstein, an . . . → Read More: WE R TAKIN OVAR UR CITY AN PRES
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By Dr. M, on  November 13th, 2010  Leave a comment  Conservation & Environment, Life At Sea, Opinion & Editorial, Plastic, Scientist!  NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, Pacific Garbage Patch By Dr. M, on November 6th, 2010 Leave a comment Coral, Oil Spills Coral, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Oil Spill A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base. (Credit: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE.) KZ already posted this yesterday but you should venture over to the NOAA website and view both . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-sea Corals Pt. 2
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Coral, Expeditions, Industry & Government, Oil Spills Coral, NOAA, Oil Spill, Soft Coral Fresh out of the NOAA news office: [...] Operating from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and using a variety of tools including the National Deep Submergence Facility’s Jason II remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), researchers were working at a site 1,400 meters deep (roughly 4,600 feet) and approximately seven miles southwest of the Macondo wellhead when . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-Sea Corals
By Dr. M, on October 31st, 2010 Leave a comment Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather NOAA, tsunami The Indonesia tsunami event was generated by a Mw 7.7 earthquake (3.484°S, 100.114°E ), at 14:42:22 UTC, 240 km (150 miles) W of Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia (according to the USGS). In a little under 2 hours, the tsunami was first recorded at DART® buoy 56001 and in a little under 3 hours, the tsunami . . . → Read More: NOAA maps October 25th Indonesian tsunami
By Dr. M, on August 30th, 2010 4 comments Oil Spills, Scientist! BP, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, NSF, Oil Spill Newsweek has a great write up about how independent scientific queries into the Gulf of Mexico are being squashed. Only are few scientists were able to benefit from the National Science Foundation’s 10.2 million dollars in the rapid response research program and conduct independent research. Most research is being conducted by those funded by BP . . . → Read More: Is Science on the Gulf Oil Spill Skewed?
By Dr. M, on July 19th, 2010 Leave a comment Expeditions, New Research, Organisms, Seamount Barnacle, cirri, exploration, indonesia, Kawio Barat, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, Seamount, Sulawesi, Volcano This is a perspective view of the Kawio Barat (West Kawio) seamount looking from the northwest. The underwater volcano rises around 3,800 meters from the seafloor. Credit: Image courtesy of INDEX 2010: “Indonesia-USA Deep-Sea Exploration of the Sangihe Talaud Region.” The join Indonesia – U.S. exploration of the deep ocean north of Sulawesi, Indonesia mapped . . . → Read More: Update on NOAA Expedition in the Indian Ocean
By Dr. M, on July 11th, 2010 2 comments Oil Spills BP, cleanup, corexit, Cuba, Deepwater Horizon, deepwater well, Drilling, Emergency Relief Well Act, Florida Keys, Galveston, Gulf of Mexico, Jindal, Lake Pontchartrain, NOAA, Obama, offshore, Oil Spill, oysters, relief well, shorebird, Shrimp, super skimmer, Susan Shaw, tarball This satellite radar image taken by Envisat's ASAR sensor at 10:44pm local time on July 7 shows a large patch of oil extending north from the site of the leaking Macondo well, and an area of small slicks along the Mississippi shoreline. A large dark area extending from Mobile Bay to beyond Panama City . . . → Read More: Oil Spill Update July 11, 2010
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 20th, 2010 2 comments Ecology, New Research, Seamount biogeography, Biome, Blue Marble, Mountains in the Sea, NOAA, oceanography, Peter Etnoyer, Seamount Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep Sea News to deliver this important report on an exciting new development in deep sea science. The journal Oceanography published a new full-color thematic issue online, devoted to understanding seamounts, . . . → Read More: Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on Earth
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 20th, 2010 3 comments Environmental Sciences deep sea, Hydrophone, NOAA, PMEL, Sound The NOAA Vents program of the Pacific Marine Environmental lab in Oregon has released some haunting sounds picked up by their underwater autonomous hydrophone array. Save the “Upsweep” sound for last for maximum spookiness! Makes one wonder how much we really know is going on down there. Some of these must be sounds produced by . . . → Read More: Mysterious Sounds from the Deep
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 30th, 2009 10 comments Giant Isopod, Pictures and Movies 6-Gill Shark, Eye In The Sea, Giant Isopod, NOAA, Ocean Explorer, video Seriously, 6-Gill Shark. Why are you such a douche? That Giant Isopod was totally there first, minding its own business gnawing on some fresh bait and then you come along and nose-butt it out of the way and steal all the food for yourself. Such a jerk. You know, if you keep acting like an . . . → Read More: 6-Gill Shark Steals Food from Poor Giant Isopod
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