We’re collecting stories from researchers who worked with the Johnson Sea-link submersibles to help raise awareness about their plight, and to illustrate their unique utility…
View More Reflections on the Johnson Sea-link: Dr. KelloggAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Chikyu’s Quest to Drill the Mantle
BBC News carries a nice story on the JAMSTEC monster ship Chikyu, also called “Godzilla-maru” for obvious reasons. The ship itself is 210 m, but…
View More Chikyu’s Quest to Drill the MantleAre sea urchins bad parents?
Sea urchin offspring have one of the coolest names in the plankton. They’re called “pluteus” larvae. Yet, according to this narrator, urchins don’t know or…
View More Are sea urchins bad parents?Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…
Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea Turtle…
View More Sea turtles get it on, and on, and on…Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered
Science Daily is reporting that just because they teach you something in graduate school doesn’t make it right. A 50 year old model of global…
View More Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt ReconsideredAround the net…
Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…
View More Around the net…Sheiks reject Somalian sea bandits
The New York Times reports that religious leaders are helping to form an anti-pirate movement, now underway in Somalia, and the Toyota Surf joins the…
View More Sheiks reject Somalian sea banditsFriday Deep-sea Picture: Basking Shark
Basking sharks can measure 35 feet or longer, are known to live in temperate waters around the world, but their wintering grounds were unknown until…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Basking SharkTGIF: Monster Wave in Super-slow Motion
High-definition cameras shooting 600 frames reveal the inner dynamics of Monster Waves in the new BBC series South Pacific: Oceans of Islands premiering May 10…
View More TGIF: Monster Wave in Super-slow MotionIs it seaweed?
Meignorant.com posts a cool video of a “ninja seaweed” from the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt. Its definitely ninja, but is it really…
View More Is it seaweed?