Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet lately, but this whale shark fieldwork thing has a way of consuming every available moment. I’ll get to some new…
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There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A Squid
All sperm are not the same. Among fruit flies the longer the reproductive tract of the female the longer the sperm. In tiny crustaceans called…
View More There Is More Than One Way To Impregnate A SquidNever seen a sailor we couldn’t lick
Most of the DSN team has also never seen a sailor that we couldn’t lick. Salty! Via GRP & Comically Vintage.
View More Never seen a sailor we couldn’t lickExpletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tists
We would be remiss at DSN if we didn’t blog about a paper that was brought to our recent attention. Warning the following material uses…
View More Expletive Infixation and Marine Scien-****in-tistsCan science be crowdfunded?
Science costs money. No matter how clever we are – and trust me, as a graduate student, I have made scientific equipment by combining salvaged…
View More Can science be crowdfunded?Back from the sea
Hi internet! I just spent the month of July sailing (yes! sailing!) from Honolulu to San Francisco aboard Sea Education Association’s vessel SSV Robert C.…
View More Back from the seaThe many personalities of snails and anemones
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures-F. Scott Fitzgerald Quirky, sheepish, fun-loving, lethargic, energetic, aloof, courageous, sensitive You might invoke these words to describe…
View More The many personalities of snails and anemonesThe Ship, The Sub, The Shuttle – We Should Blame Ourselves
Today, Scott Olson published an editorial at TCPalm, a local news site for Palm Beach area on some very deep misgivings that all of us…
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Hello old friends
So here we are in Mexico for the first of two Georgia Aquarium research trips this summer. This is the logistically simpler of the two,…
View More Hello old friendsJoin the NASA Aquarius Reefbase Live on Ustream Tonight!
Beginning at 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern, Ustream will be live-casting a NASA Aquarius Reefbase mission. You can go to Ustream to watch it, or view the…
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