[googlemap lat=”48.532975799741635″ lng=”-123.01666259765625″ width=”400px” height=”300px” zoom=”11″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]48.532976,-123.016663[/googlemap] This week finds me for the first time in Friday Harbor. This week I am meeting with 19…
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Around the net…
Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…
View More Around the net…Friday Deep-sea Picture: Basking Shark
Basking sharks can measure 35 feet or longer, are known to live in temperate waters around the world, but their wintering grounds were unknown until…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Basking SharkIs it seaweed?
Meignorant.com posts a cool video of a “ninja seaweed” from the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt. Its definitely ninja, but is it really…
View More Is it seaweed?Biodiversity Pt. 2: Mmmmm…donuts
Diversity is a matter of area. This is because there is a well-known relationship between species and area, called rather cleverly the species-area curve. You…
View More Biodiversity Pt. 2: Mmmmm…donutsBiodiversity Pt. 1: Richness vs. Evenness or What Kinds Of Beer Are In My Refrigerator
Knowing how diverse an ecological community is should be a simple matter. At the most basic level, we can go into the field take a…
View More Biodiversity Pt. 1: Richness vs. Evenness or What Kinds Of Beer Are In My RefrigeratorBacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coral
DSN friend and colleague Dr. Christina Kellogg published a new paper this month characterizing the bacterial assemblages of deep Lophelia pertusa coral in the Gulf…
View More Bacterial assemblages in deep Lophelia coralHerring Aids
Obviously, fish do not possess the big fleshy ears. Talk about swimmer’s ear? Instead, sound transmits from the water into the fish body and to…
View More Herring AidsTGIF: Marianas Trench (and Angelo) on NBC
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy MSNBC does a nice in depth report on the Marianas Trench National Monument…
View More TGIF: Marianas Trench (and Angelo) on NBCSylvia’s Earth Day fantasy, to be a turtle
Her Deepness, the Sturgeon General, is in the house! National Geographic Explorer Dr Sylvia Earle posts her own Earth Day fantasy “I wish I was…
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