People come up with all sorts of wacky ideas to explore the oceans. And here is another one of those ideas. Meet the Polar Pod, a manned research platform dreamed up by French Explorer/Physician Jean-Louis Etienne to drift around Antarctica in the Southern Ocean. My first thought when I saw this concept was WTF. . . . → Read More: Is this Polar Pod genius or just plain insanity?
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By Dr. Martini, on  May 13th, 2013  8 comments  Expeditions, Polar, Vessels and Equipment  FLIP, polar pod, Southern Ocean By Kevin Zelnio, on January 26th, 2010 6 comments Cephalopods, Reviews Anatomy, beak, Books, British Antarctic Survey, Cephalopod, Southern Ocean, taxonomy Due to popular demand and a limited run the authors of the Cephalopod Beak Guide for the Southern Ocean have their book freely available for download on the internet! The guide is published by the British Antarctic Survey and is available is 10mb low-res download and well as a 55mb hi-res download. As the only . . . → Read More: The Cephalopod Beak Guide Contest
By Dr. M, on October 26th, 2009 Leave a comment Cephalopods, Reviews albatross, Antarctica, beak, Cephalopod, International Polar Year, penguin, predator, seal, Southern Ocean, stomach, whale The Cephalopod beak guide for the Southern Ocean. What everyone needs for the coffee table ..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and squeal in delight…by Jose Xavier and Yves Cherel and published by British Antarctic Survey was published recently as a product from the International . . . → Read More: Guide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern Ocean
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2009 6 comments Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls acid, acidity, atmosphere, carbon cycle, carbon dioxide, carbonate, Crab, deep sea, form, hydrolysis, mussel, ocean acidification, pH, plankton, shells, Southern Ocean, Volcano Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the pH of the oceans from carbon dioxide released by humans into the atmosphere. From 1751 to 1994, the pH of the world’s oceans has dropped by 0.1, an considerable decrease . . . → Read More: Ocean Acidification, Not Good For Living
By Dr. M, on March 24th, 2009 9 comments Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, New Research, Weather Alfred Wegener Institute, algae, copepod, Environmental Issues, global warming, greenhouse gas, iron, iron fertilization, phytoplankton, plankton, Southern Ocean, zooplankton BERLIN (AFP) — Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has “dampened hopes” that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved “fertilising” a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water . . . → Read More: Iron Fertilization Will Not Help Global Warming
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