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…
Racing to the Bottom: Exploring the Deepest Point on Earth
Nice write up at the Atlantic about the X Prize for visiting the Challenger Deep. The story covers Richard Branson’s Virgin Oceanic, James Cameron’s Deep Challenge Team,…
View More Racing to the Bottom: Exploring the Deepest Point on EarthRhizocephala: A Haiku
I want to introduce DSN readers to my new favorite blog by Elliott Kurtz, an undergraduate student studying marine science. Panthalassa Rising provides short description…
View More Rhizocephala: A HaikuShark Researcher Seeks New Permit For Controversial Tagging Procedure
Here we go again. Follow the link (or click image below) for special report by KTVU TV, Oakland, CA. For the full online chatter on…
View More Shark Researcher Seeks New Permit For Controversial Tagging ProcedureDrunks at Sea Carry Sobering Penalties
You do stupid stuff at sea drunk, I do think you deserve some sobering penalties. Everyone who works at sea knows their actions affect everyone…
View More Drunks at Sea Carry Sobering PenaltiesCSI Macondo: Fingerprinting the oil that got away
Unlike the blown out Macondo well, scientific data surrounding last year’s oil spill has been coming out in a painfully slow trickle. As the oil…
View More CSI Macondo: Fingerprinting the oil that got awayThe Ship, The Sub, The Shuttle – We Should Blame Ourselves
Today, Scott Olson published an editorial at TCPalm, a local news site for Palm Beach area on some very deep misgivings that all of us…
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Hello old friends
So here we are in Mexico for the first of two Georgia Aquarium research trips this summer. This is the logistically simpler of the two,…
View More Hello old friendsHigh Speed Suction Feeding: Bloopers Edition
The Wainwright lab at my alma mater, UC Davis, is famous for posting their high speed video of fish biomechanics, in particular jaw morphology and…
View More High Speed Suction Feeding: Bloopers EditionJoin the NASA Aquarius Reefbase Live on Ustream Tonight!
Beginning at 7pm Pacific/10pm Eastern, Ustream will be live-casting a NASA Aquarius Reefbase mission. You can go to Ustream to watch it, or view the…
View More Join the NASA Aquarius Reefbase Live on Ustream Tonight!Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt – “There is More to the Marine Subsurface than Sediments”
Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and…
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