Every ocean scientist should know how to tie a half dozen or so knots. One of those should be a monkey’s fist, name because it…
View More Knot Wednesday: The Monkey’s FistAuthor: 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.
Why Are There No Super Whales?
The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger? The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling. To appreciate…
View More Why Are There No Super Whales?Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner
A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerCataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on…
View More Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea FloorI’m On A Boat A Cappella
Kevin and I are big fans of I’m On A Boat and the internets are full of parodies of this parody (Bert and Ernie ver.,…
View More I’m On A Boat A CappellaWith Twigs and an Animal Hide You Too Can Build a Boat
Forget the megayacht of yesterday. I am sure I can afford a megayacht timeshare…unless you can rent by the minute and I start saving now.…
View More With Twigs and an Animal Hide You Too Can Build a BoatDeepest Fish On Film
In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found…
View More Deepest Fish On FilmGiant Stingray On Film
BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video, is the largest of all stingrays reaching…
View More Giant Stingray On FilmCrazy Fish Heads
Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body…
View More Crazy Fish HeadsSuper Yacht
More moving island than yacht, the WHY super-yacht is terrestrial luxury at sea. But this concept is no gas-guzzling Hummer of the sea ready to…
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