Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
View More DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality EventCategory: Oil Spills
Deepwater Horizon: Science progresses, a year later
The New York Times has a great article out this week, as we near the year anniversary of the Macondo Well blowout and the ensuing…
View More Deepwater Horizon: Science progresses, a year laterCold hard data vs warm baby dolphins
There’s a lot of press happening right now about an “unusual mortality event” underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico involving dead dolphins, particularly young…
View More Cold hard data vs warm baby dolphinsUmm Thanks?
Two days ago I posted on the fiasco that characterized Transocean’s recent decision to give out bonuses because of their terrific 2010 safety record. This…
View More Umm Thanks?Transocean Has Big Brass Balls
In what will surely take the 2011 Audacity Award Transocean Ltd. made a statement Friday that it had its “best year in safety performance.” O’ no they…
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Teaching undergrads the ‘Bioinformatics of Biodiversity’
I’ve just wrapped up another whirlwind week in the Gulf of Mexico – a 3-day sampling trip spanning 250 miles of coastline, followed by a…
View More Teaching undergrads the ‘Bioinformatics of Biodiversity’A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…
View More A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea CoralsOil Spill Effects Ripple Into Moral Fabric of Gulf Residents
Sabrina Canfield at Courthouse News reports: At a scoping meeting last week in Biloxi, Miss., Vietnamese shrimpers said they have pulled up nets full of…
View More Oil Spill Effects Ripple Into Moral Fabric of Gulf ResidentsGulf sampling, part deux
My sporadic posting lately has been due to my ridiculous travel schedule – in the past 2 weeks, I’ve been to New York, Maine, San…
View More Gulf sampling, part deuxShip Grounding and Oil Spill at Tristan da Cuhna
View Larger Map Tristan da Cuhna defines the statement “middle of nowhere” at 1500 miles from African and South American continents. A remote island group…
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