Go back to work there is nothing to see here Japanese authorities said Tuesday they had discovered for the first time fish swimming off the…
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Umm 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?Japan Releases Radioactive Water Into Sea
And in other disturbing news today Japanese engineers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been forced to release radioactive waste water into the sea…Plant…
View More Japan Releases Radioactive Water Into SeaTransocean 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 ResidentsFinding Our Deep Blue Home
If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…
View More Finding Our Deep Blue HomeGuest Post: Crowd-Sourcing Science to Save Sea Turtles
Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is a sea turtle biologist and marine conservation activist affiliated with the California Academy of Sciences, Ocean Revolution, and the Sea…
View More Guest Post: Crowd-Sourcing Science to Save Sea TurtlesGulf 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…
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