Gaelin Rosewaks was one of a dozen people who changed my ideas about what it means to live an inspired life when I dropped out…
View More Tag-a-long with this expedition to the Bering SeaCategory: Expeditions
Documenting the North Pacific "Garbage Island"
Thomas Morton traveled with the R/V Alguita as they sailed the North Pacific Gyre to document the so called Garbage Island: “Part and parcel with…
View More Documenting the North Pacific "Garbage Island"Documenting the North Pacific “Garbage Island”
Thomas Morton traveled with the R/V Alguita as they sailed the North Pacific Gyre to document the so called Garbage Island: “Part and parcel with…
View More Documenting the North Pacific “Garbage Island”Live 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 AntarcticaSome 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 BeebeWho 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?Sometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. “The Monster”, which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the…
View More Sometimes Sea Monsters Are RealGiant Antarctic Sea Creatures
“Pet” Giant Pycnogonid attacking computer. This morning my email was flooded with friends, family, and colleagues notifying me of this story. What’s not to love…
View More Giant Antarctic Sea CreaturesJourney to the Center of Plastic
You may remember Peter’s sobering post on the Plastic Expanding Inevitable, a wonderful part of the Pacific where plastic particles outnumber plankton. According to a…
View More Journey to the Center of PlasticWe Are Going to Need Some More Money
Perhaps as no shock, oceanography is going to need some more money, about $2-3 billion to be exact. A group of international scientist called the…
View More We Are Going to Need Some More Money