Les Watling is a professor at the University of Hawaii who is simultaneously one of the leading experts on two very different types of organisms–deep-sea…
View More It’s Time to Throw in the TrawlCategory: Conservation & Environment
Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)
Question: What’s better than famed ichthyologist Milton Love masquerading as a hand puppet in a rockfish rap video? Answer: Not much. Barotrauma can be a…
View More Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)How horseshoe crabs may have saved your life
During my first year of grad school I conducted a jailbreak– a fellow grad student and I snuck into the Invertebrate Zoology lab and freed all…
View More How horseshoe crabs may have saved your lifeBreaking News: Dangerous and costly jelly washing ashore in Ireland by the thousands
Update: exactly three months after I wrote the original article below, this same species has hit yet another salmon farm in Ireland (21OCT13). It is my…
View More Breaking News: Dangerous and costly jelly washing ashore in Ireland by the thousandsThe Deep-sea footprint of Deepwater Horizon
The title speaks for itself, but damn, look at these figures! Last week in PLoS ONE, cool kids Montagna et al. (2013) showed some rather dramatic…
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Why I Still Watch Shark Week
The other day I received a slightly disconcerting text message from my cousin regarding Shark Week. She has two young kids one age 6 and…
View More Why I Still Watch Shark WeekThe Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week kicked off with a *fake* documentary about sharks, and under normal circumstances this would sink me into a big blue pit of bummer.…
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Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurday
Have some of your own to add? Drop us a line below. Sources: Wikimedia Commons, Ron McPeak, Judi333, Trine Galloway, East Bay Express, Shutterstock
View More Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurdayYou’re Right, Runway Models Don’t Predict Ocean Temperature Very Well.
Recently, I wrote about research findings of warming of the deep sea drastically within the last decade. Specifically, I mentioned how the research team used models…
View More You’re Right, Runway Models Don’t Predict Ocean Temperature Very Well.That’s no moon, that’s a bulk cutter
First watch the video above. Last week, I posted on Nautilus’s, that company that is going to delicately mine hydrothermal vents, bright new shiny 310 ton toy to…
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