The Planktos Incident continues. Just when I thought it had died. Russ George, former head of the defunct Planktos, has decided to, despite the scientific…
View More Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the OceanCategory: Conservation & Environment
The Mortal Sea
The Mortal Sea, by University of New Hampshire maritime environmental history professor Jeff Bolster, seems to be an interesting book up many of our readers’…
View More The Mortal SeaPlastics expedition departs for North Pacific
My tall-ship-sailing buddies at Sea Education Association are headed out for a special Pacific plastics cruise tomorrow aboard the 134-foot brigantine SSV Robert C. Seamans. (Disclosure: I am…
View More Plastics expedition departs for North PacificCapitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not…
View More Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of dataThe Great Recession of the Deep Oceans
If energy is the currency of life then deep-sea organisms are in a long-term recession. Energy comes in three major forms important for life: solar…
View More The Great Recession of the Deep OceansGuest Post: Crude oil insults in the Caribbean
This is a guest post from Dr. Kristen Marhaver. Kristen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California at Merced, who lives full-time and studies…
View More Guest Post: Crude oil insults in the CaribbeanJiro Dreams of Sushi, and so do I
You might have guessed by now that I’m a *bit* obsessed with sushi. When I visited Japan for the first (and second) time, I bolted…
View More Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and so do IWhale shark ecotourism: the good, the bad and the ugly
Practically nothing was known about the biology of whale sharks up until about 15 years ago. Since that time there has been a veritable explosion…
View More Whale shark ecotourism: the good, the bad and the uglyThree Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women…
View More Three Ways of Looking at the Great Pacific Garbage PatchHow wind-blown Japanese tsunami debris may move across the Pacific
My marine debris buddy Nick Mallos of Ocean Conservancy pointed me to this beautiful animated model by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner of the University…
View More How wind-blown Japanese tsunami debris may move across the Pacific