These are salt fingers. The eerie fingerlike structures are caused by sinking blobs of warm, salty water interleaving with rising blobs of cold, fresh water.…
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How to hold the entire ocean in your hands
Got global bathymetric data? Check? Got a 3D printer? Check. Then you can make yourself a model of the ocean that you can hold in…
View More How to hold the entire ocean in your handsSperm Whales Be Messing With My Robot
An very large and unlikely visitor happens by during ROV operations. My favorite part is when you can see the tether, linking the ROV to…
View More Sperm Whales Be Messing With My RobotVisualization Vednesdays: Where has all the sea ice gone?
Visualization Vednesdays highlights graphics and movies created by professional scientists and explains the science behind the visual. I’ll be focusing on physical oceanography cause they…
View More Visualization Vednesdays: Where has all the sea ice gone?Visualization Vednesdays: Modeling internal waves
As a physical oceanographer, I go to a lot of conferences, talks, seminars and lectures where a fellow scientist shows a visualization. And so many…
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If you haven’t seen this video, than you must! It is an amazing intersection of human adaptation with oceanic phenomena, in this case the Inuit…
View More Tides, Ice, and Mussels: The science behind the harvestGrumpy Octopus Coffee Cup Cozy
Who wants to crochet these for us in DSN giant squid red? Grumpy Octopus Coffee Cup Cozy via Neatorama.
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I’m no expert on vertebrates but I do remember somewhere in my undergraduate learning that a distinguishing feature of mammals was the mammary glands. Those…
View More If only fish had breastsNew expedition: Stunning cinematography from Rutgers Antarctic Quest
I was pretty excited when I learned about Rutger’s expedition to Antarctica. But I am now STOKED after watching their teaser trailer. A beautiful video…
View More New expedition: Stunning cinematography from Rutgers Antarctic QuestThe twelve days of Christmas – a marine biological edition
On the first day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: My own private…
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