I come from a family of insanely good knitters. For a time, my mom even knitted professionally for some fancy department store in Manhattan. Although…
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A little science, a little soccer. All while adrift on the ice.
Think you are hardcore because you’ve been on a research cruise for a week? A month? Three months? Well you ain’t got nothing on these…
View More A little science, a little soccer. All while adrift on the ice.Why They Should Name the Ship Boaty McBoatface
In 2019 the United Kingdom’s new state-of-the-art polar research vessel is slated to take to the seas. The Natural Environment Research Council, the UK’s leading…
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Five ways conductivity data met an untimely demise
I’ve been looking at a lot of data lately. Visions of data are dancing in my head. Why? Because often, an oceanographic sensor will just crap out. And…
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Where is the best place to put your ocean cleanup device? Not where currently proposed.
You might think that to clean up the problem of plastic in the ocean, you should place your cleanup device where there is the most…
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An animated GIF guide to the indoor oceans
THE PERFECT INDOOR STORM Before setting any vessel or offshore structure into the sea, you need to figure out whether it will survive the ocean’s wrath.…
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How to Build a Better Tide Machine
As an experimental ecologist working in an intertidal system, my life was quite literally dictated by the tides throughout grad school. Bringing organisms that run on a cycle…
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The Hat You Didn’t Even Know You Needed.
I now know what all the Deeplings are getting for Christmas…. This might be the best thing I have ever seen on Etsy.
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An Unexpected Surprise in My Mail
When Andrew Thaler (@SFriedScientist) asked me for my home address a few days ago, I was…well…concerned. I have the tendency to be drawn to friends…
View More An Unexpected Surprise in My MailWendy Schmidt XPRIZE is an awesome win for ocean health, ocean science and ocean technology
If I ever meet Wendy Schmidt in person, it’s probably going to be awkward. I’ll be doing my best to not instantaneously bear hug this…
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