The Bush Administration announced major budget increases totaling more than $140 million over the fiscal year 2007 request “to support coastal and marine conservation efforts…
View More New Funding for Ocean ResearchAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Public Release of Ocean Priorities Plan
Tomorrow (Jan 26) will see the public release of Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade: An Ocean…
View More Public Release of Ocean Priorities PlanBest of Deep Sea News 2006
Our Best of the Abyss awards were conceived to recognize important deep-sea happenings around the world, and intended to pay our humble respects to all…
View More Best of Deep Sea News 2006Best of the Abyss 2006
Just when you thought you escaped the onslaught of annual reviews in the media, along comes a slacker post from the Deep Sea News. Craig…
View More Best of the Abyss 2006Gear bias in global warming estimates
A new article in Journal of Geophysical Research by Gouretski and Koltermann shows global warming estimates since the 1950’s are positively biased 0.2 – 0.4…
View More Gear bias in global warming estimatesFilm Fest in Frisco
The Ocean FilmFest begins its fourth year in San Francisco January 20-21. My second resolution is to make this the last year I miss it.…
View More Film Fest in FriscoGiant Squid of Christmas Past
Slate recycled an old story about Giant Squid just before Christmas. Daniel Engber’s review provides lots of interesting links and factoids about ammonium and bouyancy…
View More Giant Squid of Christmas PastOde to the Great Taxonomists
New York Times is running a nice article called “Old Men and The Sea” about two remarkable marine biologists that passed this year, Drs. Cadet…
View More Ode to the Great TaxonomistsAlvin has Pilots?
I don’t know if you guys caught the comment below from Bruce Strickrott, Chief Pilot of the DSV Alvin. We have been trying to get…
View More Alvin has Pilots?A Quiet Place for Whales
Natural Resources Defense Council is leading the fight to make the Pacific Ocean off California a more peaceful place for migrating whales. So far, they…
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