I am very excited to introduce Kim Martini as guest blogger here at DSN. Kim is a physical oceanographer working at the University of Alaska,…
View More The Largest Waves in the Sea Aren’t at the BeachCategory: Environmental Sciences
Giant wave from glacier breakage almost swamps boat
From gCaptain: Tourists get the full experience of the power of a calving glacier while on a boat trip off Ilulissat, Greenland. Fortunately, and somewhat…
View More Giant wave from glacier breakage almost swamps boatDrilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mud
There are scientists floating in the middle of the North Atlantic who are holding the dinosaur extinction in their hands. Really. Here it is: This…
View More Drilling for dinosaur death: the Joides Resolution finds extinction in deep sea mudWhat is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?
As many as 900 dolphins and over 4,000 pelicans have washed up dead on the beaches of northern Peru in the last couple of months,…
View More What is Peru’s dolphin and pelican die-off telling us?Amazing Fukushima-related spam
Please enjoy this delightful piece of comment spam that we received at here at DSN. I’ve redacted the contact information but left the rest as…
View More Amazing Fukushima-related spamJames Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?
On May 20th, 2010–one month to the day after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig (under lease by British Petroleum) exploded and caught fire in the…
View More James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets
We as humans have three fundamental questions. Where do we come from? Where are we going? Are we alone in the universe? The answers to…
View More What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planetsFor Want Of A Shark…
Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the…
View More For Want Of A Shark…TGIF – Antarctic Ice Arch Collapse
Via Chris Rowan (@Allochthonous) on Twitter, comes this excellent and beautiful sequence of an ice arch collapsing in Antarctica.
View More TGIF – Antarctic Ice Arch CollapseGUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough…
View More GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges