While I had a completely different post already 60% written for this week’s column, I was struck by a few recent posts about various ways…
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From the Editor’s Desk: Confronting Climate Contrarianism
In 2007, there was a peer-reviewed article published by Arthur Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon titles “Environmental Effects of Increased Carbon Dioxide.” Just focusing…
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It’s with a heavy heart that I report that Dr. Isabella “Izzy” Abbott, scientist, passionate ocean science educator, and the foremost expert on central-Pacific algae,…
View More Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010)Thanks for YOUR Ocean Education Support!
We are about halfway through our Ocean Bloggers United for Education Donor’s Choose Initiative! Its amazing that we have already helped to fully fund 9…
View More Thanks for YOUR Ocean Education Support!First Prize for Donor’s Choose Patrons!
All donations for Ocean Bloggers United for Education initiative up until midnight Wednesday October 13 will be eligible to have to win my copy of…
View More First Prize for Donor’s Choose Patrons!Mea culpa: No Pacific trash as Donors Choose prizes
Dear DSN readers, Sometimes it’s easy to let one’s enthusiasm for science and blogging get the better of one’s common sense. Exhibit A: Myself. A…
View More Mea culpa: No Pacific trash as Donors Choose prizesOcean Bloggers United for Education!
Please join the ocean blogging community in supporting ocean and environmental education in US schools. Donate between now and November 9th to our annual Donor’s…
View More Ocean Bloggers United for Education!Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a…
View More Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black ProfessorsCooking with Rum, Goldstein style
As marine scientists and ocean bloggers, we at Deep Sea News feel it is our duty to cover rum-related topics. For how can one let…
View More Cooking with Rum, Goldstein styleTechnology and the Outdoors
I just returned from five days of backpacking in the Ansel Adams Wilderness to be faced with the yearly article on Stupid People in the…
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