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Sometimes My Job Is Real Nice

You can thank the major ocean spreading centers for the fact we all still don’t dwell on a Pangea Motherland. At nearly 10,000 kilometers in…

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Oil Spill Update: May 31st 2010

Dr. M May 31, 2010 British Petroleum Coast Guard Deepwater Horizon drill Gulf of Mexico offshore drilling oil slick Oil Spill

The newest update is that British Petroleum’s ‘top kill’ (animation, description from engineers) and ‘junk shot’ will join ‘top hat’ in the list of failed…

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Anatomy of an ecological catastrophe: what to expect in the Gulf

Miriam Goldstein May 3, 2010

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to worsen. Choppy seas and unfavorable winds have hindered cleanup efforts, and fishing has been suspended from Lousiana…

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The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: A Timeline

Dr. M April 29, 2010 British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico Louisiana offshore oil rigs oil rig oil slick Oil Spill

I spent a summer as an undergraduate in Port Fourchon, Louisiana conducting field work. Some of my fondest memories surround that summer I spent in…

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Unfortunate News of the Week

Dr. M March 21, 2010 India International Seabed Authority manganese mining

The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in India’s motto is “The Technology for Harnessing the Wealth of the Ocean Starts Here.” In April, NIOT…

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Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life

Dr. M February 15, 2010 Coral deep sea Eel finches friends isopod offshore onshore origin of life orign

What is the origin story of deep-sea organisms? For decades, we thought shallow coastal waters were the cradle of marine life repeatedly pumping species into…

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Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress

Kevin Zelnio February 3, 2010 Antarctica David Honig Ice Breaker LARISSA Larsen Ice Shelf oceanography R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer sea ice Sediment Weddell Sea

David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…

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Deepest Underwater Volcanic Eruption

Dr. M December 21, 2009 eruption Pacific video Volcano

All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean near Samoa the previous summer. The lava erupting from the…

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Samoan Tsunami Survivor

Kevin Zelnio October 5, 2009 American Samoa earthquake Natural Disaster NOAA Samoa Surfing tsunami

Neil Lumsden was out surfing when out of nowhere the recent earthquake struck the deep sea off of Samoa. We had no warning, being out…

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The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna

Dr. M October 5, 2009 anoxic Antarctica biogeography bivalve Cenozoic circulation climate chagne Coral Cretaceous deep sea density echinoderms echinoids Eocene evolution extinction foram Gastropod global thermohaline circulation hypoxia isopod Miocene oceanography octopod Oligocene origination oxygen Paleobiology Paleocene Salinity Temperature Triassic

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…

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