I first met Kimberlee Leroux on a rare, rainy day on the beautiful Central Coast of California. We had both enrolled in a weeklong intensive…
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Category: Life of Science
The Writings on the Sea-Wall: Climate Science Alliance
As science communicators, we are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to translate the ramblings of the ivory tower into a relatable and accessible public…
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The Return to Silent Spring
This is a guest post dually written by Nick Hayman and Dr. Violet Renick. Last week, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt denied the petition to ban…
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When Is An Internship Not An Internship?
An interesting discussion is playing out on NOAA Coral List regarding how we define “internships.” This got started after the Roatan Institute for Marine Science…
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Support LUMCON ocean scholarships, and get rural, low-income kids hooked on marine science!
How do we solve the diversity problem in marine science? This a complicated question without a single answer – but there is no question that we…
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This deep-sea jelly looks like something from a dream
A beautiful jelly was just sighted by the Ocean Explorer as they cruise the deep sea near American Samoa live at oceanexplorer.noaa.gov. According to Dr. Allen Collins–a zoologist at NOAA and…
View More This deep-sea jelly looks like something from a dreamReef raving revisited: 4 good reasons for fish to glow in the dark
This is a guest post form Maarten De Brauwer, a PhD candidate at Curtin University. You can find more of amazing work from Maarten on his…
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Fight against the #EPAfreeze – Because you don’t want sewage on your beaches, right?
Would you want your taxi driver using a paper road map from 1892? Or would you rather he plug in the route on his Google…
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Can you hear me, Major Tom?
“Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do” -Space…
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Rocky Intertidal v.2.0
Last year, DSN compatriot and Captain of the rag-tag crew over at Southern Fried Science, dropped a science outreach bomb. Dr. A.D. Thaler struck some ecological/technological brilliance in…
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