While we here at Deep Sea News utterly disliked the Discovery Channel fiction-presented-as-fact documentary “Megalodon” we couldn’t help but love SyFy’s “fiction-presented-as-campy-AWESOME” that was Sharknado.…
View More Recipe for a SharknadoCategory: Environmental Sciences
Tides eat British Teenager’s Car
Every day, without fail, the tides go in and out. While some people fail to understand why they rise and fall, others just completely forget that…
View More Tides eat British Teenager’s CarWanna throw a phytoplankton party? Then call in turbulence to help round up your buddies!
Typically turbulence mixes seawater and the things in it. Turbulence takes isolated patches of increased salt, heat, sediment, even plankton, and spreads them out so…
View More Wanna throw a phytoplankton party? Then call in turbulence to help round up your buddies!This July 4th please enjoy the Explosions of the Ocean
Tomorrow is July 4th. And to celebrate our independence from those tea-taxing-without-representation-people-across-the-pond we Americans will be engaging in our ceremonial blowing up of the stuff.…
View More This July 4th please enjoy the Explosions of the OceanThe Hair Metal Guide to the Ocean
Are you ready to rock? ROCK THE OCEAN THAT IS! Then bust out your wailing guitar solos, leopard skin leotards, double bass pedals, and aquanet. Welcome…
View More The Hair Metal Guide to the OceanThe Origins of Hairy Crabs
Everyone’s favorite crabs are back in the news! Yeti Crabs! Those deep-sea beasties with hairy claws or chests! A new paper in Proceedings B led…
View More The Origins of Hairy CrabsHow to Secure Cargo on the Deck of a Ship
Pretty much the opposite of the above. Whenever I see this I am reminded of the saying. “I gave you one job…”
View More How to Secure Cargo on the Deck of a Ship“Why should men have all the fun?” The seafaring ladies of physical oceanography
There are definitely a lot of research cruise videos out there. But this one caught my eye because, HEY, it focuses on physical oceanography! You…
View More “Why should men have all the fun?” The seafaring ladies of physical oceanographyBreak through 2 months of Antarctic sea ice in 5 minutes
Love, love, love, love this video. Marine scientist Cassandra Brooks strapped a camera to the front of NSF’s icebreaker the Nathaniel B. Palmer as it…
View More Break through 2 months of Antarctic sea ice in 5 minutesNew field blog: Imaging the Arctic
Art and science. Their paths don’t always cross, but when they do the results can be absolutely stunning. And this is exactly why I am…
View More New field blog: Imaging the Arctic