Recently discovered a fabulous new marine tweep, the British Oceanographic Data Centre {follow @BODC on twitter} (a national facility for preserving and distributing oceanographic and…
View More Reforming “17th Century Ideas of Marine Exploitation”Author: Kevin Zelnio
What Makes a Good Shanty?
I’ve always chalked it up to a lifetime of experience battling the confines of the sea and the ports, plenty of grog and good company.…
View More What Makes a Good Shanty?Salmonstock
PLEASE! Someone send me to cover Salmonstock! This sounds great! From the Press Release they sent me: Salmonstock is a celebration of Alaskan salmon and…
View More SalmonstockAround the Ocean (Blogs)
“If you can’t beat them, eat them!” Enrique Gili discusses at Miller-McCune how our best offensive against the spread of invasive lionfish might be the…
View More Around the Ocean (Blogs)Washed Ashore
Recently, my friend Michael Barton went to check out the Washed Ashore Exhibit, currently at Portland Community College, and was gracious enough to share some…
View More Washed AshoreA World Ocean
I hope everyone is having a great World Ocean Day today, reflecting on an ocean that needs us just as much as we need it.…
View More A World Ocean2 From DSN in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize Contest!
The very intelligent website 3 Quarks Daily, has an annual Science Prize for science writing on the web. Two articles from Deep Sea news have…
View More 2 From DSN in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize Contest!There’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
From the MBARI YouTube page: By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over…
View More There’s No Such Thing as a JellyfishKRAKEN Day: The Final Tentacle
Well, I managed to wrestle away the reigns of the blog from our gracious guest editor tonight, Mr. Archie Teuthis. I think he did a…
View More KRAKEN Day: The Final TentacleWelcome to Kraken Day!
Welcome to the unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN! Why is an unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN? We are celebrating all things KRAKEN today in honor …
View More Welcome to Kraken Day!