A recent expedition to the antarctic undersea volcanoes has recently returned. They are sharing some of their highlights in a video. The cruise looked both…
View More Underwater Volcanoes in AntarcticaCategory: New Research
Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…
View More Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We ThoughtSurfing PhD
My good friend Chad Nelsen, Environmental Director at Surfrider Foundation, has a great post at the Surf Economics blog about daily beach attendance at Trestles,…
View More Surfing PhDTGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea Fan
The depth record for deep-sea fans is held by Convexella krampi at 5850 meters in the frigid Antarctic, North Atlantic, and Kermadec Trench.
View More TGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea FanTwo Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…
View More Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The TimeEye in the Sea
In case you missed it. The first ever deep-sea web cam is up and running. I said the FIRST EVER DEEP-SEA WEB CAM. I don’t…
View More Eye in the SeaSquid Cuts Body of Sexual Partner
Yeah, squids are freaky…real freaky freaks. An article over at Practical Fish Keeping details the work of recent PhD Henk-Jan Hoving. His dissertation makes mine…
View More Squid Cuts Body of Sexual PartnerDeep Sea Creatures Are Super Freaks
A scientific examination of the Tasman Fracture Zone by a group of scientists (including some from CSIRO and the California Institute of Technology) uncovered 274…
View More Deep Sea Creatures Are Super FreaksFinally…
You might have noticed my absence lately. Maybe you didn’t. Maybe you did and just don’t care. I finally arrived in North Carolina (like NC…
View More Finally…19th Century Voyage through Google Earth
We’ve seen over the last week that the new ocean layer in Google Earth 5.0 is a useful tool for visualization and presentation. DSN readers…
View More 19th Century Voyage through Google Earth