Here is a list of the items the DSN team hope to get this holiday season. The Monster Friends posters or prints from Octophant (must…
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Transparent Specimens
Japanese artist Iori Tomit, using dye injecting techniques as fisheries student, creates these otherworldly transparent specimens of marine animals. via Transparent Specimens – The Art…
View More Transparent Specimens12.12.10 Oil Spill Roundup
There seem to be three themes at the forefront of the ongoing BP saga this week: Seafloor, Seafood, and Spillage. Ken Halanych (one of the…
View More 12.12.10 Oil Spill Roundup12 Months of Deep Sea News
Its been ages since we did a meme around these parts. I got this from DrugMonkey. Post the link and first sentence of the first…
View More 12 Months of Deep Sea News12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”
The headline says it all. That was one of the main points delivered on Thursday/Friday at Meeting #6 of the US National Oil Spill Commission.…
View More 12.5.2010 “Macondo was an avoidable accident”Latest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plume
This public press release from Roffer’s Ocean Fishing Forecasting just appeared in my inbox, offering the latest summary of oil fate in the Gulf. You…
View More Latest Gulf data shows persistent shoreline oiling & lingering subsurface plumeThe Deep-Sea Makes Everything Taste Better
A Slovenian winemaker revealed a unique technique for maturing wine when he retrieved 600 bottles that he laid six months ago in clay-made amphoras on…
View More The Deep-Sea Makes Everything Taste BetterLeaping Squid
At bookofjoe there is a nice write up about squid flying out of water. The 2004 paper’s authors argue that “gliding” is too passive a term…
View More Leaping SquidHappy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the Turkeyfish.
Its Thanksgiving in the US. I am thankful for being in the company of 4 amazing blogger scientists who are dedicated to solving diverse problems…
View More Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the Turkeyfish.Finding Life Where the Sun Don’t Shine
A flurry of new research is redefining our views on where life resides on Earth. The biosphere is the zone of air, land, and water…
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