One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three…
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Oil Spill anniversary: Show me the money…and data!
One year ago today, all hell broke loose in the Gulf. From scientists’ perspective, last year’s massive oil spill only just unlocked gates of Hades;…
View More Oil Spill anniversary: Show me the money…and data!The end of whaling in Japan?
UPDATE: No sooner did I post this did I find out it’s a hoax. Of course, this reaffirms a long held tenet of mine: when…
View More The end of whaling in Japan?Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
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 Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event
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 EventDeepwater 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 laterPlastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beach
I have a new post up at the SEAPLEX blog (where I put all my marine debris stuff). A couple weeks ago I was lucky…
View More Plastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beachJackson Browne Would Be on the Ocean
Of Jackson Browne is one of my musical heroes. And it goes to show that great songwriting goes hand in hand with a love and…
View More Jackson Browne Would Be on the OceanCold 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 dolphinsFossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power
Although counterintuitive to some fossil fuels are a killer. “There is no question,” says Joseph Romm, an energy expert at the Center for American…
View More Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power