“I fell in love with seaweed at the kitchen counter. I had returned with a sack full from the windswept beach, and as I dropped…
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Category: Life At Sea
My Other Ride is the Belafonte
You know when you have too much time on a Sunday. (Or you actually don’t, but you spend too much time on something absolutely unproductive…but…
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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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10 Not-So-Obvious Ways Seaweed is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
Remember way back, when you couldn’t leave the dinner table before you ate all of your leafy veggies? Remember how for 8 year old you,…
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Video: Rare sperm whale encounter with deep-sea ROV
“if you’re watching on channel one the super sampler is…THE HECK IS THAT?!” And that is the start of an absolutely breathtaking real life close encounter…
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The EDC of the SEA
Grab your glow sticks. Throw on all the neon swag you can possibly find. Turn up the Calvin Harris and DROP. THAT. BASS. We are going…
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These Are a Few of My Favorite Species: Spotted Porcupine Fish
As scientific mariners, we spend an inordinate amount of shore time on sleezy docks and seedy piers around the world, from the gritty shipyards of…
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Sea Walls: Lessons from a Paint Can
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes…
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Bringin' Shanty Back
Much to the dismay of many of my lab mates, I am unable to do science without some form of musical entertainment. I have even had…
View More Bringin' Shanty BackNereus confirmed lost
In 2009, Nereus was the new $5 million hybrid-transformer-multipurpose-all knowing-swiss army knife of deep-sea research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Nereus, primarily funded by NSF (…
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