The following post is by Luiz Rocha, Associate Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences. His major research interests include evolution,…
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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.
The Tale of a New Phylum That Really Wasn’t
In 1986, a group of scientists from Australia and New Zealand described, in the one of the highest profile scientific journals, the existence of a…
View More The Tale of a New Phylum That Really Wasn’tMy 25 Favorite Things For Ocean Field Work
I am particular about my set of gear and equipment that I take when I am out at sea. Much time spent was spent on…
View More My 25 Favorite Things For Ocean Field WorkThe Etiquette of Flags At Sea
John Tissott from the East Fremantle Yacht Club in Perth, Australia has just developed an infographic (below) on the topic of flags flown at sea. For example,…
View More The Etiquette of Flags At SeaPlaaaaaaaannnkktooooonnnnn In Spaaaaaccccce
According to several “news” agencies ocean plankton have supposedly been found on the outside of the International Space Station. From the ITAR-TASS News Agency that broke…
View More Plaaaaaaaannnkktooooonnnnn In SpaaaaaccccceA Narrative of Coral-Dwelling Barnacles With the Aid of Internet Memes
Not everything on a coral is actually a coral. Embedded into the hard coral’s surfaces are nearly 100 species of specialized barnacles—the Pyrgomatidae. New work…
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A New Inside Anus Found Very Deep
One of the most obscure invertebrates of all of the ocean is the Entoprocta. It doesn’t take a student of Latin to understand that it’s…
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No Honey, there are no sharks in Ontario Lakes
This post is authored by Andrew Lewin a Marine Ecologist, Marine Conservationist, and Oceanpreneur. He is the founder of SpeakUpForBlue.com, a website dedicated to help…
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Sex, Snails, Sustenance…and Rock & Roll
One of the things in the title was not actually part of my latest published research, unless you count the soundtrack I played while…
View More Sex, Snails, Sustenance…and Rock & RollThe Top 10 Engineering Designs to Clean Up Plastics In the Oceans: You Won't Believe What We Found!
Given the recent surge of interest in engineering designs for plastic clean up of the oceans, I have decided to review the top ten plastic clean…
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