DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems…
View More Where’s the Ocean Love?Category: Conservation & Environment
12.12.10 Oil Spill Roundup
There seem to be three themes at the forefront of the ongoing BP saga this week: Seafloor, Seafood, and Spillage. Ken Halanych (one of the…
View More 12.12.10 Oil Spill RoundupChina and the deep sea
On the one hand, you have China’s brand-spanking new Jialong submersible capable of reaching 7000 meters depth, 500 meters deeper than its nearest competitor, representing…
View More China and the deep seaF U Pacific Sperm Whales
Not so smug now are you! Not so big and charismatic now! Your just a free living fat sack of pollutants! Suck on that! A…
View More F U Pacific Sperm WhalesFrom the Editor’s Desk: Benefits of Bottom Trawling and Other Assorted Fairy Tales
Apparently there is a study underway that is setting out to empirically determine the ole adage that trawling is bad for the environment, as reported…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: Benefits of Bottom Trawling and Other Assorted Fairy TalesWHOI Takes You Deep into the Gulf
It may take years before scientists determine the full impact of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But, utilizing the…
View More WHOI Takes You Deep into the Gulf12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”
The headline says it all. That was one of the main points delivered on Thursday/Friday at Meeting #6 of the US National Oil Spill Commission.…
View More 12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”ABC News Reporter Sees the Devastation of the Oil Spill for Himself
But seemed more interested in the sub than the science. Linked from here if embed is not working.
View More ABC News Reporter Sees the Devastation of the Oil Spill for HimselfLatest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plume
This public press release from Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting just appeared in my inbox, offering the latest summary of oil fate in the Gulf. You…
View More Latest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plumeAnd the next Oil Spill series is….
….”The Science of Seafood: Should we trust food from the Gulf?” Stay tuned to DSN for the first installment, coming soon!
View More And the next Oil Spill series is….