Our good ocean blogging friends at The Oyster’s Garter are finalists in the Marx Foods Oyster Contest! Deep Sea News is fully endorsing Miriam and…
View More Oysters on the Half-Shell, Vote for Miriam!Month: October 2008
The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower Basket
#11 Euplectella sp (Phylum: Porifera, Class: Hexactenellida, Family: Euplectellidae) [This Post is brought to you by Amanda Kahn a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower BasketDISCOVRE Expedition
The NOAA RV Nancy Foster is now on her fourth leg of deep-water ROV work in the Gulf of Mexico. Things have been steadily improving.…
View More DISCOVRE ExpeditionSanta Barbara Ocean Film Festival
Does my heart long for Southern California? Everytime a new movie comes out worth the $15 ticket. So, not that often, but fairly regular. Who…
View More Santa Barbara Ocean Film FestivalThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #12: Yeti Crab
YETI YETI YETI!!!! #12 Kiwa hirsuta (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Decapoda, Family: Kiwaidae) Now imagine doing the Yeti Stomp (I heart Backyardigans!) in…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #12: Yeti CrabSushi USB Drives
Do they work as delicious as they look? mmmm…. More at Toxel.com.
View More Sushi USB DrivesLife in the abyss is no protection from bad weather
A new article highlights the really cool work that has come from Ken Smith and Henry Ruhl. Ken’s lab has monitoring a deep-sea abyssal site…
View More Life in the abyss is no protection from bad weather27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #13 Deep-sea corals
Of all the deep-sea animals, deep-sea corals have got to be the most interesting because they are iconic, and useful to a variety of disciplines,…
View More 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #13 Deep-sea coralsResourcefulness
That is a key quality of a marine biologist. When you are out at sea for extended periods of time and no where near your…
View More ResourcefulnessMarine Biologists in Support of Obama
Dr. Mark Westneat is a Curator of Zoology at the Field Museum and the director of the Biodiversity Synthesis Center. A fantastic biologist who has…
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