If there’s one thing I learned at ScienceOnline2011 (a gathering of journalists, writers, and scientists), it’s that science communicators should tell stories, not just facts.…
View More Scientists, what’s YOUR story?Author: Holly Bik
I am a computational biologist at the University of California, Riverside. My research uses DNA sequencing and genomics to study microbial eukaryotes (yeah, nematodes!) in marine ecosystems, with an emphasis on evolution and biodiversity in the deep-sea. I can neither confirm nor deny that I like Unix more than I like going to sea.
Release of the Daphnia Genome
Today marks the long-awaited release of the Daphnia pulex genome, published today in Science. Why is this such a momentous occasion? Well first of all,…
View More Release of the Daphnia GenomeThe oil industry’s ‘Culture of Complacency’
Last week, Dr. M and I attended a captivating lecture at Duke university, delivered by none other than the honorable William K. Reilly (co-chair of…
View More The oil industry’s ‘Culture of Complacency’No S*&%t Sherlock, dispersants DON’T degrade quickly
Another disturbing paper about the BP oil spill was published this week. The new study from Wood’s Hole researchers shows lingering traces of dispersant in…
View More No S*&%t Sherlock, dispersants DON’T degrade quicklyBiodiversity crisis-a call to arms for scientists?
Dr. M’s article in Wired truly stirred something in me this morning. We need to put names on things. I’m a scientist who has always…
View More Biodiversity crisis-a call to arms for scientists?Submersible at your disposal + unexplored marine habitat = EPIC expedition!!
Although the Deep-sea News team has just spent a whole weekend in exotic North Carolina, we are jealous of Dr. Alistair Dove who currently enroute…
View More Submersible at your disposal + unexplored marine habitat = EPIC expedition!!1.9.2011 Sunday Spill Roundup: Advance Preview of Oil Spill Commision Report
“A blowout in deepwater was not a statistical inevitability.” An eloquent and succinct line from the National Oil Spill Commission’s Report on the Deepwater Horizon…
View More 1.9.2011 Sunday Spill Roundup: Advance Preview of Oil Spill Commision ReportSeafood Safety part 2b: NOAA responds to my post
I got a phone call last week from NOAA Public Affairs Specialist Christine Patrick, who helpfully clarified a lot of details from my last post…
View More Seafood Safety part 2b: NOAA responds to my post1.2.2011 New year, same old oil spill
Well its 2011, and now we’ll have to talk about the Deepwater Horizon disaster as last year’s oil spill. Unfortunately, we can’t make a New…
View More 1.2.2011 New year, same old oil spill12.26.10 A tough Christmas in the Gulf (Sunday Spill Roundup)
In lieu of the holiday weekend, there’s only one story I want to draw attention to–months after the well was capped, the post-spill economic hardships…
View More 12.26.10 A tough Christmas in the Gulf (Sunday Spill Roundup)