Jacques and team in the Arctic John Denver talks about how he composed Calypso, and released this 1994 video inspired by his friend Jacques Cousteau…
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Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked…
View More Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…
View More Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: Chock-A-Block
Items packed so tightly together as to prevent movement. A chock is typically a wooden wedge used to secure moving objects on deck and in…
View More Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: Chock-A-Block“Marine Mysteries” At Sant Ocean Hall
Can’t make it to DC anytime soon, like me? Voice of America has a nice video tour of the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian…
View More “Marine Mysteries” At Sant Ocean HallHow far will a turtle go to save his species?
Mr Leatherback has a MySpace page and a YouTube page. I love this guy. He’s on Facebook and Twitter. He’s been just about everywhere in…
View More How far will a turtle go to save his species?Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis
Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…
View More Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysisThriving In Extreme Conditions
…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…
View More Thriving In Extreme ConditionsOcean Acidification, Not Good For Living
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…
View More Ocean Acidification, Not Good For LivingOceanography On the Chopping Block
Word from Tallahassee is that oceanography may be out at FSU! Florida State administrators this afternoon released a draft of proposed wide-sweeping cutbacks at the…
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