Amidst an odd week of impending deadlines, a national holiday and the celebration that ensues, and record temperatures, I am not ripe for unique contributions…
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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.
How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of…
View More How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastlinePreserved in the Act and Fossilized Turtle Whoopie
This is really too good not to share immediately. A recent study reports on numerous pairs of fossil turtle couples caught in the act of copulation. The…
View More Preserved in the Act and Fossilized Turtle WhoopieI Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep
I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the…
View More I Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger DeepMaking The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American Culture
The following post is write up of the talk I delivered last week at Capitol Hill Ocean Week When we see images like the above…
View More Making The Connection: The Oceans In Contemporary American CultureCan You Guess the Average Grade for the U.S. on Our Oceans?
Last week the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative (JOCI) released its 2012 U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card (PDF). JOCI is a bipartisan, collaborative group “to encourage…
View More Can You Guess the Average Grade for the U.S. on Our Oceans?Coordinated Hunting in Red Devils
With just reason Humboldt or Jumbo Squid are called Diablo Rojo. The skin of Dosidicus gigas is blood red but can change to bone white.…
View More Coordinated Hunting in Red DevilsSea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of Homosexuality
Journal of the Global Draining Society Letters, B (2012) 2(1):12-15 doi:10340824.xadflk Sea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of Homosexuality Dr. M* *National Institute of…
View More Sea Level Rise Is Tied to Prevalence of HomosexualityRIP: Science on TV
Remember when MTV actually aired music? Remember when you could learn something from the Learning Channel? Got actual history on the History Channel? Or actually…
View More RIP: Science on TVFlock of Seagulls
And because Friday afternoon demands it. How many of you will be singing the following for the rest of the weekend? And I ran, I…
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