The Corpus Christi Caller Times reported Monday that a record number of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) nests were found this year on South…
View More Sea turtles rebounding in Gulf of MexicoAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
"New Gold Rush" off Africa
Seafloor mining continues to gain popularity in response to discoveries of diamond beds off Namibia and mineral deposits off Papua New Guinea and New Zealand.…
View More "New Gold Rush" off AfricaTGIF: Another Atlantis
This week’s TGIF video comes from Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura who says he has identified the ruins of a sunken city off the coast of Japan. If you SCUBA dive, you’ll love it. If you don’t, you’ll wish you did. Could this be “another Atlantis”?
View More TGIF: Another AtlantisFriday Deep-Sea Picture (08/31/07)
A microscopic baby octopus was collected in plankton samples from a 2005 expedition to the Sargasso Sea. National Geographic posts more photos at their website…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (08/31/07)Is there springtime for the Abyss?
Think of the changing seasons around you, and the way plants and animals respond to these changes. Trees change color. Birds migrate, and bears go into hibernation. So, we wonder, what are the seasonal cues in the abyss? Are summer days longer than winter days in the deep-sea? What’s the ocean equivalent of rainfall, anyhow?
View More Is there springtime for the Abyss?Attack of the Giant Sea Foam
Poor Aussies in Sydney got nailed by a giant mixture of salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed that whipped up into…
View More Attack of the Giant Sea FoamNewsletter 8 from CenSeam
The Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) project released Newsletter No 8 earlier this month. Visit their website to download this and other editions.…
View More Newsletter 8 from CenSeamExperiments in ocean acidification
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to more dissolved CO2 in the world’s oceans. In turn this will increase the hydrogen ion…
View More Experiments in ocean acidificationTGIF: “Fish Guys”
Between the online game with the ROV and this movie from YouTube, you’ll be sure to get no work done today. This “Fish Guys” movie…
View More TGIF: “Fish Guys”TGIF: "Fish Guys"
Between the online game with the ROV and this movie from YouTube, you’ll be sure to get no work done today. This “Fish Guys” movie…
View More TGIF: "Fish Guys"