Alvin’s interior will be getting a redesign as a new larger titanium has been forged. It is 3, rather than 2, inches thick, with an interior…
View More Pimp My AlvinMonth: October 2010
The Disease of Plastic Water Bottles
This is a post in appreciation of Blog for Action Day’s 2010 theme – Water. People are made mostly of water and thus we need…
View More The Disease of Plastic Water BottlesTapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea Mining
Nautilus Mining is the virus that will not go away. You have to admire their persistence if it did not come with destruction of deep-sea ecosystems. Nautilus…
View More Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea MiningEU Clashes with Greenland over Arctic
Is the EU trying to off oil competitors or is there real concern on protecting the Arctic ecosystem? via EU clashes with Greenland over international…
View More EU Clashes with Greenland over ArcticOLinkias formosa
New dispatch from the Coastal Health blog by marine ecologist David Kimbro. He explains why subtidal oysters taste better and has a nice video podcast.…
View More OLinkias formosaCoral-devouring sea stars
A new paper by Chris Mah of Echinoblog, Martha Nizinski at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and Lonny Lundsten at MBARI is nicely captured in…
View More Coral-devouring sea starsEvery Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
Another book I just recently finished was Rob Dunn’s masterfully crafted “Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys.”…
View More Every Living Thing: Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New MonkeysZooborns
Hopefully you have been following ZooBorns, Andrew Bleiman’s sticky sweet tribute to all newly birthed and cute in the world’s zoos and aquariums. I personally…
View More ZoobornsFirst Prize for Donor’s Choose Patrons!
All donations for Ocean Bloggers United for Education initiative up until midnight Wednesday October 13 will be eligible to have to win my copy of…
View More First Prize for Donor’s Choose Patrons!An Empire Lacking Food
Let me reintroduce you to planet Earth. Nearly 64 percent of its surface, close to 208,640,000 square kilometers, sits below 200 meters of water. The…
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