National Geographic Explorer and oceanographer Robert Ballard makes a case for serious exploration and mapping. Video is 18 min. long and recorded in February 2008…
View More Ballard: “Why Are We Ignoring the Oceans?”Category: Life of Science
Rest In Peace Inventor of the Wetsuit
Hugh Bradner died this week at the age of 92. Bradner was a prominent physicist and professor emeritus at the Scripps. He worked on the…
View More Rest In Peace Inventor of the WetsuitGiant Squid, Live and In Technicolor!
Teuthologist Dr. Steve O’Shea and Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, the colossal squid. Photo credit: Kathrin Bolstad Monster squid hunter extraordinaire Dr. Steve O’Shea will be dissecting giant…
View More Giant Squid, Live and In Technicolor!Earthcast 2008
As part of Earth Day festivities next week, I will be a guest with Karen of the Beagle Project and Rick of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea…
View More Earthcast 2008Live Blogging From Antarctica
Adrian Glover, deep-sea scientist and polychaete expert, is live blogging his experience aboard the RRS James Clark Ross in Antarctica. Posts will cover the expedition…
View More Live Blogging From AntarcticaReflections upon an award, thanks, and praises
In which one of the pirates here at at DSN receives the 2008 NOAA David Johnson Award for “outstanding and innovative use of satellite data” for work describing the migratory behavior of blue whales and sea turtles in relation to sea surface temperature fronts in the Northeast Pacific…
View More Reflections upon an award, thanks, and praisesLipke Bijdeley Holthuis, 1921-2008
It is with great sadness I report the passing away of one of the world’s greatest carcinologists, L.B. Holthuis. A carcinologist studies crustaceans and he…
View More Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis, 1921-2008Some Quotes From William Beebe
Quotes from Beebe’sHalf-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton’s 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda. To reach this depth the two…
View More Some Quotes From William BeebeHighlights from the Ocean Sciences Meeting
I know I was supposed to be live blogging the conference, but there is just so much to do and see here the ASLO Ocean…
View More Highlights from the Ocean Sciences MeetingWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?