I love seaweed. Maybe it’s because I am from California and we are all plant loving hippies or maybe it’s because they’re the underappreciated overlords…
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Category: Scientist!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Patch
Deepling emeritus, Miriam Goldstein, is a science rock star. My science crush on her only deepens after watching her completely explode TeX Oslo. Miriam is all…
View More How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage PatchLessons From Creating an Online Outreach Empire
Lessons From Creating an Online Outreach Empire from Craig McClain Last Friday I delivered a preliminary talk on the opening night of ScienceOnline Oceans. I…
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Want to catch a shark. Got to do a shark dance.
So this past weekend, some of the other Deeplings and I left the DSN lair to party in the city where the heat is on.…
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Cousteau Cocktails
It goes without saying that many generations of Marine Biologists owe a bit of their inspiration and success to Big J. Either from his work…
View More Cousteau CocktailsIt’s Time to Throw in the Trawl
Les Watling is a professor at the University of Hawaii who is simultaneously one of the leading experts on two very different types of organisms–deep-sea…
View More It’s Time to Throw in the TrawlThe landscape of a sea urchin
I’ve long thought of echinoderms, a group that includes sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers, to be among the most alien-like animals. I did not,…
View More The landscape of a sea urchinThe Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips
Discovery Channel’s Shark Week kicked off with a *fake* documentary about sharks, and under normal circumstances this would sink me into a big blue pit of bummer.…
View More The Real Shark Week: Diving in with oceanic whitetips“Why should men have all the fun?” The seafaring ladies of physical oceanography
There are definitely a lot of research cruise videos out there. But this one caught my eye because, HEY, it focuses on physical oceanography! You…
View More “Why should men have all the fun?” The seafaring ladies of physical oceanographyOutreach, the academic formula, and the need for critical examination
COMPASS recently published a commentary in PLOS Biology on the journey from science outreach to meaningful engagement. This post attempts to synthesize a series of reactions, reflections, and…
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