The question is not why are whales big but why are whales not bigger? The blue whales reached weights of 150 tons prewhaling. To appreciate…
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Darwin and the Adventure: the Brazilian TV Show!
Globo is one of the major television networks in Brazil and they are airing this week a special segment on the Darwin and the Adventure…
View More Darwin and the Adventure: the Brazilian TV Show!Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner
A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerCataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over 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…
View More Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea FloorHosta la Vista, Nereus
Wood’s Hole’s Nereus was offloaded off the R/V Cape Hatteras today. Stood by to watch it get packed up. It was a tight fit with…
View More Hosta la Vista, NereusTreking Poles, Sledges, 1600lbs of Pork, and 12 Cases of Whiskey
In January 1908, Shackleton and his team built a hut on the Antarctic continent to serve as a base for an attempt on the South…
View More Treking Poles, Sledges, 1600lbs of Pork, and 12 Cases of WhiskeyDarwin and the Adventure: Sailing, Science and Outreach in South America
These are the slides from a talk I gave last Friday to the Duke University Marine Lab on the Darwin and the Adventure project in…
View More Darwin and the Adventure: Sailing, Science and Outreach in South America(Sieve) Size Matters
Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these…
View More (Sieve) Size MattersDead Zones Are Here To Stay
In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was…
View More Dead Zones Are Here To StayChopping Up Whales For Science!
I am standing in the back of a large lorry, my feet submerged in a pool of blood, water and oil. The truck’s container is…
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