The Best of DSN 2009

What…a…year!  In the beginning of 2009, we kicked our old site to the curb and started the empire that is deepseanews.com.  One of our ranks received his Ph.D. and flew the coop.  And let’s not forget PLoS One Marine and Aquatic Science started!  Below is our collection of what we perceive to be the best and the posts we enjoyed writing over the course of 2009.  If you enjoyed some of these posts, or are continuing to, then don’t hesitate to nominate these posts for Open Lab 2009: The Best of Science Writing on the Web

1. Why size matters…sieve size
2. An Homage to McMaster Carr
3. Lady bits and man bits in the same beastie
4. GRE NO GOODZ, EVUL!
5. Benthic Rover, Benthic Rover, Send data right over
6. Dr. M live-blogging from sea Day 1&2, 3&4, 5, 6&7, 8&9, 10, 11
7. Kevin live-blogging from Brazil (1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6)
8. On all the ways we love Sea Sheperd (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2)
9. DEEPC WORMS R DA BOMB
10. More Mercury…More Problems
11. Shrimp Tails: The Tale of New Species
12. Simple Summer Recipes for Deep-Sea Carrion
13. Bad Design or Brilliant Solutions
14. Seawater Redefined
15. Corals & Seeps, Cause & Effect
16. Squid Fail
17. 100 MYA Giant Sperm
18. Are our old partners friends or foes of sharks?
19. The Age of Armored Fish Heads
20. Fish Head, Fish Heads
21. Moray Eels Are Everywhere and Nowhere
22. OMZ’s: God Forsaken Pits of Despair
23. Where and when do vent crabs do it?
24. Life without toes and….gonads
25. Lighted whoopie in the deep dark sea
26. And who could forget all the fun we had during sex week?
27. Biodiversity Pt 1: Beer, Biodiversity Pt 2: Donuts…an ode to Homer?
28. Herring Aids
29. Acid is bad
30. A personal favorite post…warfare ecology
31. So you want to be a deep-sea biologist?
32. Freakin’ Crazy Fish
33. Big Gulpers of the Deep
34. Let’s dump stuff in the ocean…uummmm…let’s not