Bathymetric image of the Nazare Canyon off the coast of Portugal. Photo courtesy of the BBC. The BBC has released a short news piece on…
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NOAA Great Lakes Ships Move To Be A Little “Greener”
n 1998, President Clinton enacted Executive Order 13101 for government agencies to reduce waste, recycle and use environmentally friendly and sustainable products including bio-products. Fast forward to 2007 and NOAA has heeded the call to reduce its environmental footprint by replacing petroleum-based fuels and lubricants with bio-based ones
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Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) will be switching hands. HBOI was found by Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, in the mid…
View More You Missed Your Chance to Buy an Oceanographic InstituteFriday Deep-Sea Picture (06/01/07)
Schematic diagram of the DSV Alvin from the Ocean Explorer (NOAA) website.
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You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
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You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
View More Cheerios & AlvinDEPTHX to Europa by 2019
At the beginning of March, DSN reported on DEPTHX. The picture is of DEPTHX. It weighs about 1.2 tons, shaped like a mushroom, and can…
View More DEPTHX to Europa by 2019On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…
For the ultra rich in the next decade the Waldorf-Astoria is probably going to be a bit passe. “My pomeranians and I had spent every…
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Kick ’em Jenny is a 1300m submerged volcano residing about 8km off the Grenada coast and the only live submarine volcano in the West Indies. …
View More Keeping Ties on Jenny3000 Dives, 3000 Hits, and S.J. Gould
In The Flamingo’s Smile, a compilation of Gould’s articles for Natural History, there is a lengthy discussion of the principle of decreasing variation within established…
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