Frederick “Ted” M. Bayer, 85, a retired Smithsonian curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and one of the world’s leading experts on marine invertebrates, passed away earlier today after a long illness on October 2 at Washington Home in Washington, D. C.
View More In memoriam: Dr. Frederick "Ted" BayerAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Internal waves on coral reefs in South China Sea
Oceanographers live in a different world than we do. They occupy a different time-space continuum. We can only wish we had the time to watch a large internal wave breaking onshore every four hours in the South China Sea.
View More Internal waves on coral reefs in South China SeaCarnival of the Blue V
The Carnival of the Blue thing has really come together lately thanks to Mark Powell, the power of the blogosphere, and a dedicated online ocean…
View More Carnival of the Blue VLost years for sea turtles revealed
Researchers used stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen on old and new parts of the shells of 44 Bahaman green turtles (Chelonia mydas) to examine…
View More Lost years for sea turtles revealedWho's your favorite?
I can’t bribe you for your vote for best life science blog without raising questions of impropriety, so instead I will attempt to coerce you with insidious logic and campaign strategery. Look at it this way…
View More Who's your favorite?TGIF: Nautilus clip from "Ocean Deep"
Clips from the BBC series Planet Earth Ocean Deep episode have found their way to YouTube. The clip embedded above starts in a deep (guessing…
View More TGIF: Nautilus clip from "Ocean Deep"As NGOs rise, Greenpeace goes under
Last month, Greenpeace raised the bar for pro-active ocean exploration by an NGO to inform better ocean management by outfitting their own “green” vessel, the Esperanza, with two Deep Worker manned submersibles depth rated to 600m.
View More As NGOs rise, Greenpeace goes underFine. We'll rent a submarine and do it ourselves.
So, why would an environmental organization pilot a pair of manned submersibles through 2000 feet of water in the two largest submarine canyons in the world? Because it’s going to be a long time before federal agencies are willing to surrender the financing to secure a ship and submersibles. By that time the seafloor could be bottom trawled one hundred times over.
View More Fine. We'll rent a submarine and do it ourselves.Interview with a sub-pilot : John Hocevar
The following exclusive interview was conducted by Deep Sea News over email with John Hocevar, ocean specialist for the Greenpeace organization, and a sub-pilot for the 2007 Bering Witness expedition.
View More Interview with a sub-pilot : John HocevarInterview with a sub-pilot: David Guggenheim
The following exclusive interview was conducted by Deep Sea news over email with Dr. David Guggenheim, submarine pilot and scientific advisor for the 2007 Bering Witness expedition. He is the founder of 1planet1ocean; and the OceanDoctor blog.
View More Interview with a sub-pilot: David Guggenheim