GrrlScientist is having a sailfish appreciation day over at Living the Scientific Life. She’s posting hot links to the online story at National Geographic about…
View More Sailfish Appreciation DayAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Tricked out hurricane websites
Naturally, one of the favorite pastimes here in the Cone of Probability is to monitor as many websites as possible for different forecasts and projections…
View More Tricked out hurricane websitesYikes. I'm in the Cone again!
Corpus Christi is in the center of Hurricane Ike’s projected trajectory. He’s coming at us like a fastball over home plate. This is a bit…
View More Yikes. I'm in the Cone again!The glacial pace of sea-level rise
Flow velocities of ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be ~ 49 km/yr, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today for Greenland alone to raise sea level 2m.
View More The glacial pace of sea-level riseMercury rising
Shrimp fisherman and environmental activist Diane Wilson gave a talk today at the Harte Research Institute. Diane’s best known for sinking her own shrimp boat in protest of toxic discharge from a Formosa Plastic industrial plant, but she’s taken on Union Carbide and others like a One Woman Army.
View More Mercury risingTGIF Video: Italian Spiderman
You can’t say farewell to Summer 2008 without a loving look back at… the Italian Spiderman. The viral video came on the scene like a Jersey girl on the boardwalk, sweeping Philly boys off their feet.
View More TGIF Video: Italian SpidermanFriday Deep-sea Picture: Iridogorgia (09/04/08)
The deep-sea gorgonian genus Iridogorgia sp. is characterized by a partially calcareous axis with an open, upright spiral or helix arrangement (Verrill, 1883). Three new species were described last year (Watling 2007).
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Iridogorgia (09/04/08)Sailor saves a bumblebee
When a sailor misses a chance to go to sea, he tends to wander around his garden, paying special attention to the clouds and the weather, as if he were walking the deck in the sea air. He circles his home like it were a shipyard, looking for repairs.
View More Sailor saves a bumblebeeFriday Deep-sea Picture: Swiftia sp. in series
Many deep-water animals have never been photographed alive in their natural habitat, they’re known only from their pickled state. Dried, dusty, and broken specimens fill museum drawers.
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Swiftia sp. in seriesHexed?
Our expedition to the Twilight Zone is still on hold because of generator problems on the RV Nancy Foster. Now we’ve got Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gustav…
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