Here’s a quiz for you kids. Which of the habitats above possesses the most microbes? A. Fresh Volcanic Basalt on the seafloor, B. Sargasso Sea…
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Congratulations Phoenix Team! Another Fine Landing on Mars!
Congratulations to the Phoenix landing team for an absolutely best-scenario landing! I tuned in for the landing on NASA TV online. Seeing all the tension…
View More Congratulations Phoenix Team! Another Fine Landing on Mars!A weddy in the Alboran Sea
If you look at the Mediterranean Sea on a globe, you may get the impression that its just one contiguous water mass, but really its not. There are thirteen seas in the Mediterranean Sea.
View More A weddy in the Alboran SeaThe Scurvy Poets Society
Shiver me timbers! The RV Tangaroa has a poet on board, and he’s makin’ jingles at sea. The mate is there up on the bridge,…
View More The Scurvy Poets SocietyTag-a-long with this expedition to the Bering Sea
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 SeaHydrothermal Vent Octopus Ladies Discovered
Researchers have been very concerned about the paucity of females of Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis, an octopus inhabiting the hydrothermal vent community of the Eastern Pacific Rise.…
View More Hydrothermal Vent Octopus Ladies DiscoveredDocumenting 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 AntarcticaNull hypothesis: cows do not breed whales
For many years, the Japanese were accused of exploiting the ‘scientific whaling’ loophole at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for the purposes of commercial harvest…
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