This post is co-authored by Al Dove and Craig McClain In the 1989 James Cameron sci-fi movie The Abyss, there’s a scene when Ed Harris’…
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Losing Deep-Sea Science in the United States
Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this…
View More Losing Deep-Sea Science in the United StatesHot air and #epicFAILs for Ocean Conservation
The present dialogue on marine conservation is failing our oceans. It isn’t just a science/public communication fail – missteps are happening in a variety of…
View More Hot air and #epicFAILs for Ocean ConservationLSDG: An Acronym Consuming A Field
You may never heard of LSDG (although some of you may have heard of LSD but I make no judgement here) but a lot scientific…
View More LSDG: An Acronym Consuming A FieldIs the Ocean a Mirror? or Why is the Ocean Blue?
Did you actually make it through that?? Did you catch the strange reason why the sea is blue? Apparently the ocean is a mirror (not…
View More Is the Ocean a Mirror? or Why is the Ocean Blue?All You Have To Do Is Just One Thing
By volume, land makes up only 0.5% of the earth, the shallow seas 21%, and the deep 78.5%. Yet, we are beginning to have a detrimental impact on the deep, perhaps the last pristine part of planet. Although we know little of this environment, our presence is already there. I urge you in 2008 to help us fight for the deep sea.
View More All You Have To Do Is Just One ThingArchiteuthis is Only Separated By 3 Degrees from Kevin Bacon
So all day long after the previous post I wondered, how separated is Architeuthis and Kevin Bacon? As you might remember although the Giant Squid…
View More Architeuthis is Only Separated By 3 Degrees from Kevin BaconHow to Save The Ocean
&Here’s the list beginning with my thoughts. Hopefully the readers can suggest other ideas and revisions with the goal of this being a central archive…
View More How to Save The OceanPETM, Volcanoes, and #18 in 25 Things You Should Know
Approximately 55 million years ago it was very bad to be a deep-sea animal. First the ocean temperature was rising. At the surface, temperatures rose…
View More PETM, Volcanoes, and #18 in 25 Things You Should Know25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #17 Vent May Be the Womb of Life
#17! The question posed by a reader was just too good not to include the series. What’s the current take on a deep-sea origin of…
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