A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over…
View More New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale PooCategory: Conservation & Environment
Ocean Warming = More Tasty King Crab Legs!
To piggy back on Peter’s ice sheet-o-mania posts today, Marsha Walton reports at CNN.com what it means to the animal life in the Antarctic when…
View More Ocean Warming = More Tasty King Crab Legs!You’ll Love How Deep We Go
Via Rick, news on the wire is that the deepest spot in the ocean may soon be included in a marine monument. As mentioned earlier…
View More You’ll Love How Deep We GoYou'll Love How Deep We Go
Via Rick, news on the wire is that the deepest spot in the ocean may soon be included in a marine monument. As mentioned earlier…
View More You'll Love How Deep We GoThink You Have What it Takes to Be an Ocean Survivor?
Life isn’t always rosy for a top predator in the ocean. For there is always a predator that higher up the food chain trying to…
View More Think You Have What it Takes to Be an Ocean Survivor?New Oceanography Degree Opens Up Doors to Solving Real World Problems
The Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the Rady Business School of University of California, San Diego, have joined forces to create a degree program the…
View More New Oceanography Degree Opens Up Doors to Solving Real World ProblemsAn Update On Nautilus Mining
Will mining in the deep sea have minimal impacts?
View More An Update On Nautilus MiningDealers Smuggle Drugs Using Semi-Subs
CNN reports: “Although the vessels were once viewed as a quirky sideshow in the drug war, they are becoming faster, more seaworthy, and capable of…
View More Dealers Smuggle Drugs Using Semi-SubsOn Bottled Water
I think this graphic illustrates Craig’s last Just One Thing Challenge. Hat tip to Gear Junkie’s Daily Dose blog via GT.
View More On Bottled WaterPlan for national system of MPAs available for comment
Are deep-sea and pelagic habitats adequately represented in the new US plan for a national system of marine protected areas? I dunno, it just came…
View More Plan for national system of MPAs available for comment