You may remember a week ago I spoke of a recent study indicating a link between repeated scuba diving, especially with mixed gases, and damage to blood…
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Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceans
If you’ve ever talked to me in person for more than 5 minutes, I’ve probably mentioned the !#$%*ING AWESOMENESS of high-throughput sequencing. Frankly, I’m a…
View More Metagenomics: Transforming our understanding of oceansScuba Diving = Crappy Vessels?
If you scuba dive, you may already have heard of Nitrox. To breath underwater, most divers use a normal atmospheric air mixture (21% oxygen, 78%…
View More Scuba Diving = Crappy Vessels?Sharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of Mobs
My life for the past few months has been all about sharks. Mind you, I’m not complaining. A confluence of opportunities has me building…
View More Sharks, The News Cycle, And The Madness of MobsScientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
View More Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago…
View More Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just WhalesA Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…
View More A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea CoralsFinding Our Deep Blue Home
If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…
View More Finding Our Deep Blue HomeA 21st century view of Marine Biology
So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…
View More A 21st century view of Marine BiologyDeep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life
Sometimes I am stunned by the vastness of the internet, as well as the brief 15-nanoseconds of fame that go along with most of its…
View More Deep-sea additions to the Nematode Tree of Life