The Senate passed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 today. This is exciting because the bill invokes deep-sea research priorities, including shipwreck and seamount studies.
View More Ocean Bill moves to the HouseAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Beginning again
We’re done sailing the seas of Discovery Channel, Scienceblogs, and Blogger. We have our own flagship now- DeepSeaNews.com.
View More Beginning againNew Ocean Atlas from Her Deepness Sylvia Earle
Lets just say for the sake of argument that some day soon we do get our own submarine. Where are we going to go with…
View More New Ocean Atlas from Her Deepness Sylvia EarleTGIF: Dance of the Box Jellies
Cheryl (Lewis) Ames, a Research Assistant with the National Systematics Lab of NOAA’s Fisheries Service at the Smithsonian, has found that a tiny cubozoan medusa…
View More TGIF: Dance of the Box JelliesSchool of Rock
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), Deep Earth Academy, and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership have announced their School of Rock for 2009 — Cores,…
View More School of RockArctic Claims In List of Top 100 Science Stories
The Top 100 science stories of the year are now listed at Discover Magazine. The story of Arctic ice retreat, resource claims, and seafloor mapping…
View More Arctic Claims In List of Top 100 Science StoriesA funny kind of inspiration: Kevin Smith
While we’re waiting for the finalists in the Top 27 Deep-Sea Species, I wanted to tip you to a totally off-topic gambit happening in the…
View More A funny kind of inspiration: Kevin SmithPopulate this Planet Ocean
Ocean people, let’s populate this new Planet Ocean on Google Earth. UNEP and World Commission for Protected Areas just released a global marine protected area…
View More Populate this Planet OceanFall is so refreshing or the Beagle's eye in the sky
Fall is so refreshing. New semester, new things happening, a chill in the air. It’s practically Christmas in Texas, if you ask me. Halloween is…
View More Fall is so refreshing or the Beagle's eye in the skyDispatch from Sea: DISCOVRE Expedition
One of the problems we face as deep-sea biologists is our limited understanding of the 4th dimension – temporal variability. We don’t know much about…
View More Dispatch from Sea: DISCOVRE Expedition