The New York Times published an interesting opinion piece saying its time for major changes in academia. Dr. Mark Taylor of Columbia University’s Religion Department…
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One Thing Every Oceanographer Should Know
How to make beer at sea in a coffee pot! Southern Fried Scientist may just have become my new best friend. I guess what I…
View More One Thing Every Oceanographer Should KnowSea Monsters of the Deep
This month’s Science Illustrated discusses how some deep-sea organisms are larger than thier shallow water cousins. The article dicusses the processes that lead to this…
View More Sea Monsters of the DeepWhy I Believe in PLoS One
At the PLoS One Community blog I discuss why I joined PLoS One, believe in the open access mission, and contemplate how we view a…
View More Why I Believe in PLoS OneJurassic Journey, the Preview
Leatherback turtles are huge! They look like big, black, barnacle-encrusted sea zeppelins, or something. See them in this trailer for Jurassic Journey. The production quality…
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I signed up for daily updates on the Great Turtle Race from Conservation International, hoping to get some insights on the pace of the race,…
View More Cali the turtle “spinning in circles”The Great Turtle Race begins again!
In 2007, an inspired group of sea turtle researchers launched an event called the Great Turtle Race, in which they tracked satellite tagged animals across…
View More The Great Turtle Race begins again!Jacques Cousteau YouTube Video Roundup
Jacques and team in the Arctic John Denver talks about how he composed Calypso, and released this 1994 video inspired by his friend Jacques Cousteau…
View More Jacques Cousteau YouTube Video RoundupThings You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked…
View More Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…
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