It’s December. With all the parties, year-end-deadlines and general holiday shenanigans, have you found the perfect gift for that marine science-lover in your life? If you have,…
View More Have you been nautical or nice? A week of DSN holiday gift guidesAuthor: Dr. Martini
Breaching instruments: The BEST of BAD ocean photoshop
There is an image of a breaching shark making the rounds on social media as National Geographic’s Image of the Year. Although admittedly shark breaching…
View More Breaching instruments: The BEST of BAD ocean photoshopThe Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science Edition
On the first day of Christmas NASA Earth Science gave to me: advance warning of Hurricane Activity. On the second day of Christmas NASA…
View More The Twelve Days of Christmas – NASA Earth Science EditionWherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.
What did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary…
View More Wherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.From smooth to bumpy, how Marie Tharp changed our view of the sea floor
Give a woman some data, and she’ll change the science world. At least that’s what Marie Tharp did. A skilled cartographer, her maps showed the…
View More From smooth to bumpy, how Marie Tharp changed our view of the sea floorHave you been watching Okeanos explorer? If not, this week is your chance!
I’m kind of obsessed with Okeanos Explorer. Why? Because being able to watch a live feed of an ROV exploring the deep ocean on the…
View More Have you been watching Okeanos explorer? If not, this week is your chance!Pokémon GO players, please don’t take drifters from the ocean. THEY ARE NOT POKÉBALLS.
Love it or hate it, Pokémon Go is undeniably a phenomenon. Although we here at DSN previously warned of the perils of Poké hunting in…
View More Pokémon GO players, please don’t take drifters from the ocean. THEY ARE NOT POKÉBALLS.An open letter from DSN to our fellow scientists
The recent string of violent tragedies, both in the USA and abroad, have wrenched our hearts and left our minds baffled. Minnesota, Dallas, Baton Rouge,…
View More An open letter from DSN to our fellow scientistsBuild your very own CTD. Then kiss it and love it and call it George.
OMG OMG OMG OMG, Andrew Thaler, Kersey Sturdivant and Russell Neches over at Oceanography for everyone have just published a Build Guide for the OpenCTD,…
View More Build your very own CTD. Then kiss it and love it and call it George.The Ocean Cleanup deployed a prototype and I honestly have A LOT of questions
Judging from the number of emails Miriam and I received from reporters today, the general public wants to hear what we have to say about…
View More The Ocean Cleanup deployed a prototype and I honestly have A LOT of questions