I asked Tammy Horton, a noted expert on crustaceans, to write this post about the life of her colleague and friend Roger. Roger will be…
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It’s Time to Overhaul the Funding of Ocean Science
The National Research Council (NRC) released the first-ever Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences(DSOS) report on 23 January 2015 as commissioned by the National Science Foundation’s…
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Let’s Get Sea Star Wasted!
We have ALL had one of THOSE nights. The epic evenings characterized by fun and debauchery, a handful of good friends, and more than…
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A Fond Friday Farewell
Parting is always such sweet sorrow. Although we have a tinge of sadness this week at DSN, sometimes we’re powerless to halt change. In this…
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Why the Foldscope is My New Favorite Toy
This past year Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” From simply…
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What single piece of advice would you give another scientist?
Recently I attended a talk by my good friend and fantastic researcher, Brian Sidlauskas. His talk was a retrospective over his research and what contributed…
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Six surprising reasons to be thankful for the sea
The oceans provides us with most of the oxygen we breath, much of the food we eat, and even all the water we drink, which has passed…
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It is with great joy that I announce that DSN’s Alex Warneke has successfully defended her Master’s thesis at San Diego State University on the effects…
View More That Is Master Alex To YouA story about fish, plastic debris and sex
This is a guest post by Chelsea Rochman. Chelsea is a post-doc at the University of California Davis. This is her fourth guest post at DSN, and the first one…
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The Tale of a New Phylum That Really Wasn’t
In 1986, a group of scientists from Australia and New Zealand described, in the one of the highest profile scientific journals, the existence of a…
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