As you all might know, my goal in life is to throw expensive s**t in the ocean. And I am very excited that in two…
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Wood Falls, Chemicals, & Dubstep
I’ve gotten a little crazy about wood falls lately. My newest research project with Jim Barry at MBARI is definitely coolest research I have ever…
View More Wood Falls, Chemicals, & DubstepCreation of the world’s first Peanut Butter and Jellyfish
Ladies and gentlemen, I could not make this up if I tried. I owe my thanks to Wyatt Patry for sharing this study with me,…
View More Creation of the world’s first Peanut Butter and JellyfishWill My Wood Research Be Poplar?
I wooden dream of having a post full of wood puns. On the other hand my alder ego often gets the best of me and…
View More Will My Wood Research Be Poplar?Triton not. Dive, or dive not, there is no Triton.
One of the deeplings shared this SCUBA diving concept called the Triton, a sort of artificial gill that would extract oxygen from the water for…
View More Triton not. Dive, or dive not, there is no Triton.Essential Marine Readings
Everyone is always asking the DSN crew what are favorite books are. Well just in time for the holidays we are unleashing The Essential DSNL…
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It’s Monday and you know what that means? No…not the day when you try longer than you should to magically make all the e-mails in…
View More 6 ways to help our oceans and look absolutely fabulous doing itSquee! Take a trip with Bob the Drifter
While Snork-Macaroon love-children may touch some people’s cold, cold hearts, nothing brings out the SQUEE in this Physical Oceanographer like an adorable scientific instrument. Meet…
View More Squee! Take a trip with Bob the DrifterJellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”
Why send jellies to space? Well, because it’s awesome (true for anything in space), but mostly because of little crystals jellies keep in their bodies,…
View More Jellyfish go to space, say it was “meh, kinda sucky”Revisiting the Ocean Cleanup, a plan to remove plastic from the oceans
UPDATE: The Ocean Cleanup released a feasibility study in June 2014 that attempted to address many of the concerns we had below. You can read…
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