The WWF sponsored Earth Hour event calls on you to shut the lights for an hour this Saturday at 8:30 pm local time. This is…
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Nerve Toxins In The Deep
Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of…
View More Nerve Toxins In The DeepReally Guys, the Giant Razor-Clawed Crabs are ABSOLUTELY Harmeless…
After all, the experts agree. Experts Agree Giant, Razor-Clawed Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat Thanks David for sending this!
View More Really Guys, the Giant Razor-Clawed Crabs are ABSOLUTELY Harmeless…Lubchenco confirmed
Jane Lubchenco, the marine scientist named by President Obama to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, finally took her new job today, after she…
View More Lubchenco confirmedCalypso Club?
Some of you may remember that when we left ScienceBlogs I wrote… “When I was much, much younger, I joined Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso Club (named…
View More Calypso Club?Warfare Ecology
Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors…
View More Warfare EcologyTGIF: Strange Blanket Octopus
This video of a swimming Tremoctopus or “blanket octopus” was shot in the Gulf of Mexico in 180 feet of water at Eugene Island South…
View More TGIF: Strange Blanket OctopusHow will tuna fare in this economy?
You can’t read a newspaper these days without learning about new repercussions from the global economic downturn. USA Today reported yesterday that college students are…
View More How will tuna fare in this economy?Tips on Consulting for the Marine Sciences
This should be considered an addendum to Craig’s post yesterday, called “So, you want to be a deep-sea biologist“. It assumes you’ve done everything right,…
View More Tips on Consulting for the Marine SciencesIs Sea Sheppard Good or Bad for Sharks?
David from Southern Fried Science has a good post continuing the discussion started by Dr. M here on Deep Sea News. While Dr. M focused…
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