Tonight starts Expedition Week on the National Geographic Channel. It opens with “Eating with Cannibals” and “Finding Jack the Ripper” at 9pm EST/PST. For those…
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I’ve just wrapped up another whirlwind week in the Gulf of Mexico – a 3-day sampling trip spanning 250 miles of coastline, followed by a…
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The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later.…
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If you are looking a fact-based text on the ecology the oceans, Deep Blue Home is not for you. If you are interested in the…
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Hi there DSN readers, nice to meet ya. I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. He’s a little on the big side,…
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On December 26th 2004, a 9.0 earthquake struck off northern Sumatra in Indonesia. This triggered a massive tsunami that affected Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Sri…
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Over at Uncharted Atolls there is nice primer on the biodiversity of the deep and climate change. Add it to you “to do” list for…
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So you wanna be a marine biologist in the 21st century? Better crack open that MacBook and start writing perl scripts. As part of our…
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