The long awaited results… Best New Discovery/Research (Heights of the Abyss Award): When it’s the deep sea its all new. 2007 was no different with…
View More Best of the Abyss 2007Author: Dr. M
Craig McClain is the Executive Director of the Lousiana University Marine Consortium. He has conducted deep-sea research for 20 years and published over 50 papers in the area. He has participated in and led dozens of oceanographic expeditions taken him to the Antarctic and the most remote regions of the Pacific and Atlantic. Craig’s research focuses on how energy drives the biology of marine invertebrates from individuals to ecosystems, specifically, seeking to uncover how organisms are adapted to different levels of carbon availability, i.e. food, and how this determines the kinds and number of species in different parts of the oceans. Additionally, Craig is obsessed with the size of things. Sometimes this translated into actually scientific research. Craig’s research has been featured on National Public Radio, Discovery Channel, Fox News, National Geographic and ABC News. In addition to his scientific research, Craig also advocates the need for scientists to connect with the public and is the founder and chief editor of the acclaimed Deep-Sea News (https://www.deepseanews.com/), a popular ocean-themed blog that has won numerous awards. His writing has been featured in Cosmos, Science Illustrated, American Scientist, Wired, Mental Floss, and the Open Lab: The Best Science Writing on the Web.
HyperSub
The Marian Hypersub is something else entirely or so the website says. Actually the HS is 31 years in the making and kicks of our…
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A new blog I discovered, and seem strangely drawn to, is Information Junk, the findings of a San Franciscan librarian. Via IJ, I see that…
View More Electric Wave ParkSteampunk Deep-Sea Creatures (and other animals)
Via Dark Roasted Blend… French city of Nantes recently became host to extremely strange and fascinating sculptural display: “Les Machines de l’Ile Nantes”, designed by…
View More Steampunk Deep-Sea Creatures (and other animals)New Chinese Research Vessel
From The Hindu news is that The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanography will be overseeing the construction of a new 4,000 ton research…
View More New Chinese Research VesselPretty In Pink Isopods
It truly is the year of the Giant Isopod. Questionable Content has these great T-shirts in a variety of sizes for about $20 including shipping.…
View More Pretty In Pink IsopodsArctic Ocean Now Open For Business!
I am totally addicted to Mark Powell’s blogfish. In part I view this relationship as a bit masochistic as the posts are always filled with…
View More Arctic Ocean Now Open For Business!TGIF: Steinbeck
Host Tom Cavanagh (TV’s Ed, Scrubs) discovers that author John Steinbeck was also a marine biologist He donated lots of specimens to the Smithsonian’s museum…
View More TGIF: SteinbeckFriday Deep-Sea Picture: Western Flyer
Fans of Steinbeck will recall that the fishing boat that he and Ed Ricketts took to the Sea of Cortez was named the Western Flyer.…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Western FlyerWho doesn’t love 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?
Business owner: So if we destroy 1.1 acres natural habitat all we have to do is put 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?…
View More Who doesn’t love 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?