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Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used Words

There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…

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A murder of crows and a stipple of whale sharks?

Alistair Dove April 8, 2013

(A Crow Left of the Murder is a particularly excellent Incubus album, btw) One of the recent papers out of my group describes an unprecedented…

Gadgets & Gear Polar Sea Ice Vessels and Equipment

Observing the Cryosphere from the Troposphere: NASA’s P-3B Airborne Laboratory

Dr. Martini April 6, 2013 NASA Operation IceBridge

Some people might think I am crazy for waking up at 4:45 AM on a Sunday morning to tour a plane, but you would too…

Genetics Habitats New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Endemic Genomes? Reason #1 to sequence the Deep Sea

Holly Bik April 4, 2013 16S archaea Bacteria endemic genomes genomics high-throughput sequencing Illumina Microbes rRNA

Something to think about: the recent Gibbons et al. (2013) PNAS paper found that *one* site in the English Channel showed a 31.7-66.2% overlap in…

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Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!

Holly Bik March 30, 2013 biology conservation fish Giant Squid physical oceanography Pinterest sharks taxonomy whales

Be worried – us marine scientists are officially taking over the internet. I’m super excited to announce the launch of Deep Sea News on Pinterest. We’re…

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Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?

Dr. M March 27, 2013 Bacteria Cameron Challenger Deep exploration hadal James Cameron JAMSTEC marianas trench Microbes Trench

When he made his historic solo dive into the Mariana Trench last month, James Cameron brought back images and descriptions of a “lunar like” marine…

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Guest post: The stunning deep-water biodiversity of the Bear Seamount

Alistair Dove September 6, 2012 fish Michelle Staudinger New England Octopus seamounts squid

I’m delighted to present this guest post from Dr. Michelle Staudinger, a post-doc at the University of Missouri Columbia and stationed at the National Climate Change…

Microbes Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

In the oceans, aliens lie hidden and waiting

Holly Bik April 26, 2012 16S Bacteria DNA Microbes rRNA sulfur Thiomargarita namibiensis

The real title of the paper is “Multiple self-splicing introns in the 16S rRNA genes of giant sulfur bacteria”. But who’s going to fall out of…

Adaptations Ecology Environmental Sciences Evolution Geology Mating & Reproduction New Research Organisms Paleobiology Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

What knowledge of the deep sea tell us about life on other planets

Dr. M March 9, 2012

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…

Geology Scientist! Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges

Archie Teuthis December 30, 2011 AGU American Geophysical Union Book chemosynthesis Colin Schultz Hydrothermal Vents Mid-Atlantic Ridge minerals Seafloor Spreading Spreading Center TAG Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse

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…