In case you haven’t heard a 5.9 earthquake hit Virginia just outside of Richmond. I felt it in Durham, NC and Kevin felt it out on…
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Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 ‘major hurricane’
via Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 ‘major hurricane’ – latimes.com. Hurricane Irene continues to grow in strength and ferocity and is now on…
View More Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 ‘major hurricane’Carolina Beach Water Spout Today!
A water spout was recorded this morning just down the road from us in Wilmington, NC. In fact, we had just moved from Carolina Beach…
View More Carolina Beach Water Spout Today!Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”
Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…
View More Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever
You know that oxygen-less zone that chokes life and forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico at the base of the Mississippi? Currently its…
View More 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest everMining The Deep: All About $ For the Government
The PNG Mine Watch blog posts some unfortunate news today about mining the hydrothermal vents of the PNG coast at the Solwara 1 site. Papua…
View More Mining The Deep: All About $ For the GovernmentTGIF: The Cambrian Explosion Song
Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion
View More TGIF: The Cambrian Explosion SongExploration, thy name is Atlantis
If everything goes smoothly, this morning at around 11 o’clock, four brave souls strapped to 800,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, hydrogen and hydrazine will ride a…
View More Exploration, thy name is AtlantisThe Ocean Moon of Saturn
Sixty two moons orbit Saturn. The sixth largest of these at just 300 miles in diameter is Enceladus named after one of the giant children,…
View More The Ocean Moon of SaturnFollow along with Fukushima researchers
There’s a research cruise underway right now to study the impacts of radiation release from the Fukushima disaster in Japan, using the UNOLS/U. Hawaii ship…
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