Research findings indicate that the oil spill off the coast of Mexico may be endangering the lives of these animals. Biologist Eric Hoffmayer, who studies…
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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.
Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…
View More Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea AnimalsThat’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000
That’s right, new work suggests BP’s estimates of oil flowing from the broken well were an order of magnitude off. With these revised estimates, the BP…
View More That’s 56,000 Barrels A Day…Not 5,000Our Impacts on the Deep
I could write about a detailed account of a new study in PLoS One. I could discuss how the researchers imported information on the spatial…
View More Our Impacts on the DeepIs Deep-Sea Mining Bad?
Newsweek broaches this subject discussing the move by China to being exploring the mining of massive sulfide deposits, i.e. hydrothermal vents. Samantha Smith from Nautilus,…
View More Is Deep-Sea Mining Bad?Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!
The basic energy molecule for life is ATP, adenosine triphosphate. It fuels all those cellular reactions that life needs. To produce one mol of ATP…
View More Why Glycolysis Sucks! Formate 4-Evah!The Oil’s Impact On the Gulf
A recent article in New York Times indicates that the Gulf of Mexico avoided the worst of our predictions and recovery is already abound. Marsh…
View More The Oil’s Impact On the GulfDeep sea fishing is ‘oceanocide’
Claire Nouvian, author of The Deep, provides a blunt and passionate discussion of why deep-sea fishing is very, very bad over at CNN. In blatant…
View More Deep sea fishing is ‘oceanocide’Avatar 2: Now With More Deep Sea.
I was not one of the fans of Avatar. I wasn’t even close. In fact the movie, more specifically the plot and dialogue, made me nauseous.…
View More Avatar 2: Now With More Deep Sea.Cephalopod Art
One of my favorite blogs, BiblioOdyssey, covers books, illustrations, science, history, visual materia obscura and generally just eclectic bookart. For all you cephalopodaphiles, you need…
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