Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries.
View More Loggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fisheryMonth: October 2007
TGIF: Great Song and Great Video
New Zealand band Fat Freddys Drop mix it up with deep sea life.
View More TGIF: Great Song and Great VideoFriday Deep-Sea Picture (10/19/07): The Art of Kawika Chetron
I am relaxing the 200m rule for DSN, to bring you some photographs from one of my favorites, Kawika Chetron. To say that Kawika’s photos…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (10/19/07): The Art of Kawika ChetronSenate To Fund Ocean Acidification Research
A bill in the senate has passed that will focus research on ocean acidification. The Lutenberg Measure, crafted by Senator Frank R. Lutenberg (D-NJ) and…
View More Senate To Fund Ocean Acidification ResearchReally Big Lobsters & The People Who Save Them
How much would you pay to save a lobster? $160 is the amount Chris Crowell and his wife Jyll Prole paid to purchase a lobster…
View More Really Big Lobsters & The People Who Save ThemBoring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even Close
I am concerned about comments on a few websites and in the press over the last year. Most disheartening is a EU memo entitled “Questions…
View More Boring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even CloseNew Expeditions With Pictures
Two major expeditions took place in the last few months. The first explored Celebes Sea south of the Philippines from the surface to a depth…
View More New Expeditions With PicturesA Conversation With Cindy Lee Van Dover
For much of Cindy Lee Van Dover’s professional life, she has been a pioneer…In 1990, she became the first woman with a license to pilot…
View More A Conversation With Cindy Lee Van DoverSeamount biogeography
A seamount is a rocky underwater mountain with more than 1000m relief. Roughly 14,000 exist worldwide. How are they connected? Are they isolated islands, or stepping stones for highly dispersed deep-sea creatures?
View More Seamount biogeography2007 DSN Education Fundapalooza Report and Prizes From Seed
If you haven’t heard our Seed overlords are offering $15,000 in matching funds. Seed is also offering some sweet prizes to donors which you can…
View More 2007 DSN Education Fundapalooza Report and Prizes From Seed