Remember Chikyu? Japan’s monster ship also called “Godzilla-maru” because of its 210 m length and a drill derrick that rises 100 m off the deck.…
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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.
Ship Grounding and Oil Spill at Tristan da Cuhna
View Larger Map Tristan da Cuhna defines the statement “middle of nowhere” at 1500 miles from African and South American continents. A remote island group…
View More Ship Grounding and Oil Spill at Tristan da CuhnaClimate Change and the Deep Sea
Over at Uncharted Atolls there is nice primer on the biodiversity of the deep and climate change. Add it to you “to do” list for…
View More Climate Change and the Deep SeaLate TGIF: What’s That Yellow Stuff?
Hat tip to Underwater Thrills for this one. I shit upon you and your family!
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Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina
But I wonder: If Westerners had ignored Japan’s whaling, would its whaling have died sooner, of its own internal economic problems? via Did Outsider Pressure…
View More Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl SafinaTsunami Video Roundup
Before you watch the videos below I urge you to head over to Highly Allochthonous. Chris Rowan has two excellent posts explaining the geology behind…
View More Tsunami Video RoundupDeep-Sea Mining is Coming
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Van Dover compared the deep sea to America’s Wild West and cautioned that wildlife losses could be similar…
View More Deep-Sea Mining is ComingSubmarine with Tank Treads
I for one welcome our new future. No longer will we have to choose between tanks and submarines when we need to go to…
View More Submarine with Tank TreadsA Blanket of Mucus
You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your defense? You cough up enough loogies…
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