Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day – but as you may know, here at Deep Sea News we are partial to a bit of…
View More Don’t talk like a pirate – SING like oneAuthor: Miriam Goldstein
Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE…
View More Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWNSunday happiness: the Bertness Rock Anthem
Mark Bertness’ salt marsh ecology lab at Brown University has a lengthy academic family tree – and in fact your friendly ocean bloggers Jarrett Byrnes,…
View More Sunday happiness: the Bertness Rock AnthemTwo new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution…
View More Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold AntarcticaGuest Post: Crude oil insults in the Caribbean
This is a guest post from Dr. Kristen Marhaver. Kristen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, who lives full-time and studies…
View More Guest Post: Crude oil insults in the CaribbeanFearsome spiked tentacles of a deep-sea squid
You never know what may be sitting on a table in the Scripps Collections. Last time, I wandered by the Benthic Invertebrates Collection, there was…
View More Fearsome spiked tentacles of a deep-sea squidThree Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women…
View More Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage PatchTidal Pools: Nature’s Putrid Sewers – Horrifying Planet
Oh, the Onion. How we love you. (H/t Jarrett Byrnes).
View More Tidal Pools: Nature’s Putrid Sewers – Horrifying PlanetHow wind-blown Japanese tsunami debris may move across the Pacific
My marine debris buddy Nick Mallos of Ocean Conservancy pointed me to this beautiful animated model by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner of the University…
View More How wind-blown Japanese tsunami debris may move across the PacificTGIF: The Biggest Poop On Earth (possibly)
Behold! The biggest poop on earth! Well, we don’t actually know if it’s the actual biggest poop, but it is a poop that came out…
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