What do hyperbolic crochet and coral reef organisms have in common? They both evolved to maximize surface area within a limited volume. So, naturally, a…
View More Coral reef display… in "hyperbolic" crochetAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Saba Road
People once believed “The Road” could not be built on Saba Island until civil engineer Josephus Lambert Hassell took a correspondence course in engineering and organized a crew of locals to start construction in 1938.
View More Saba RoadTGIF: Anchor Scar- the movie
Thank God it’s Friday. Work moves to the back burner, social issues move to the front burner. This week we provide two underwater movies to…
View More TGIF: Anchor Scar- the movieFriday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through corals
Oil tankers drop their anchors on Saba Bank while waiting to approach the port in St Eustatius, and it’s causing serious damage to coral reefs and their associated habitats.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through coralsMy friend the Tiger Shark
This here 8′ tiger shark below circled me and Dr. Juan Armando Sanchez twice as we collected gorgonians in 25m of water in a flat rubble landscape on the Saba Bank interior last week.
View More My friend the Tiger SharkLoggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fishery
Industrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries.
View More Loggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fisherySeamount biogeography
A seamount is a rocky underwater mountain with more than 1000m relief. Roughly 14,000 exist worldwide. How are they connected? Are they isolated islands, or stepping stones for highly dispersed deep-sea creatures?
View More Seamount biogeographyKorea bottles deep-sea water
Korean companies are claiming health benefits to deep-sea water.
View More Korea bottles deep-sea waterAttacks of the Kraken
Today is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Jason at Cephalopodcast asks us to “embrace your inner octopus and let the world know what we think of our…
View More Attacks of the KrakenFriday Deep-sea Picture (Oct. 4 2007)- Stamp from Haiti
This is one of the stamps Dr. Frederick “Ted” Bayer painted for a coral reef series from the country of Haiti. Dr. Bayer passed away…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture (Oct. 4 2007)- Stamp from Haiti