How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature…
View More What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 MinutesRepost: So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea Biologist
When I wrote my So You Want to Be a Marine Biologist post yesterday, I had totally forgotten about Dr. M’s excellent take on more or…
View More Repost: So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea BiologistSo You Want to Be A Marine Biologist: Deep Sea News Edition
ARRRRR ME HEARTIES!!!! So ye want t’ be a pirate, t’ sail the open sea searching for booty – what? You said a marine biologist?…
View More So You Want to Be A Marine Biologist: Deep Sea News EditionTGIF – Pirate-Shark-Surfing-Undead Music Video by The Creepshow
There is much awesomesauce and badassery fit into a 3 and half minute package.
View More TGIF – Pirate-Shark-Surfing-Undead Music Video by The CreepshowTGIF – Overfishing Rap
Al might be keeping it classy on TGIF with some wonderful underwater footage, but here in New Hampshire, I’m stuck in an empty office revising…
View More TGIF – Overfishing RapTGIF – a clarion call for manta rays
I just wanted to share some nice footage from Mexico showing a group of clarion agenlfish (Holacanthus clarionensis) cleaning a manta ray that comes within…
View More TGIF – a clarion call for manta raysInto TheBlu, virtually
Try to imagine a virtual ocean, an online watery world divided into discrete ecosystems, each populated with semi-autonomous avatars of every marine species that lives there. …
View More Into TheBlu, virtuallyCircus of the Spineless #67
Welcome the 67th edition of the Circus of the Spineless! It is my distinct honor and privilege to highlight the stars of this here traveling…
View More Circus of the Spineless #67“The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead”: RIP Edmund Fitzgerald
I am reminded today on gCaptain that today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The above excellent song is a story…
View More “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead”: RIP Edmund FitzgeraldOctopi Wall Street!
This lovely piece of art, by graduate students Laurel Hiebert and Kira Treibergs with artwork by Marley Jarvis, made the rounds last week. We are…
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