Marine biologist, photographer and documentary maker Mike deGruy was killed in a helicopter accident in Australia yesterday. TED has remembrance page here and below is…
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As close as you’ll get to legal Cetacean porn
I must have been suffering from post conference delirium, because I decided to watch A Dolphin Tale on the plane ride home from ScienceOnline2012. Plot…
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I had forgotten about the Order of the Science Scouts of the Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. Stickers in our swag bags at Science…
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I’ve been suspiciously quiet on the blogging front lately. The reason: I’ve just completed a cross-country move in the middle of the holiday season (its…
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Hehe. From Autocowrecks – EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures.
View More I Sea What You Did TherePromoting Ocean Literacy – a DSN Core Value
When the DSN crew gathered for our inaugural retreat recently, one of the core values we agreed on was “promoting ocean literacy”. This value is…
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Oh the dark deep sea is frightful, But the food not so delightful, But since we’ve got no place to go, Let It Marine…
View More Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It SnowI Got 99 Problems and a Ship Ain’t One
When I say I am going on research cruise, I get two responses. 1. “Well that sounds nice, do they serve cocktails and is there…
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Back in 2005, three researchers described and named a very unusual crab from a hydrothermal vent in the Indian Ocean (paper here). The scientists christened…
View More Yeti Crab RoundupWhen Far-Sighted Vision Meets Near-Sighted Politics or Zombie Worms For Congress!
What’s the difference between a collection of Osedax “Zombie worms” and the 112th United States Congress? One is a population of spineless, sedentary, opportunistic life…
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