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…
TGIF: 8-Legged Mom Has 50,000 Babies: 2-Legged Woman Watches
H/t to NPR Laurynn, it turns out, often spends her winter evenings diving into the ocean, not too far from Harbor Avenue in downtown West…
View More TGIF: 8-Legged Mom Has 50,000 Babies: 2-Legged Woman WatchesThe Indian Ocean’s cup runeth over
I’ve been in Brazil for the past week for some research coordination meetings. This has involved a number of different folks in several forums, but…
View More The Indian Ocean’s cup runeth overA World Ocean
I hope everyone is having a great World Ocean Day today, reflecting on an ocean that needs us just as much as we need it.…
View More A World OceanScientist In Residence: Beth Orcutt Introduces Herself
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…
View More Scientist In Residence: Beth Orcutt Introduces HerselfFrom the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean
How many of you see a panda and automatically think of conservation and the World Wildlife Fund? The well-known panda logo was designed by the…
View More From the Editor’s Desk: The Giant Squid Can Be A Panda For The Ocean2 From DSN in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize Contest!
The very intelligent website 3 Quarks Daily, has an annual Science Prize for science writing on the web. Two articles from Deep Sea news have…
View More 2 From DSN in the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize Contest!Tracking radiation effects off Fukushima
This weekend marked the beginning of a new scientific expedition, investigating how leaked radiation may be affecting marine life around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power…
View More Tracking radiation effects off FukushimaGender gap doubles in physical oceanography
The gender gap in tenure-track physical oceanography faculty positions has nearly doubled since the mid-1990s, according to a correspondence item published in Nature Geoscience in…
View More Gender gap doubles in physical oceanographyThere’s No Such Thing as a Jellyfish
From the MBARI YouTube page: By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over…
View More There’s No Such Thing as a JellyfishKRAKEN Day: The Final Tentacle
Well, I managed to wrestle away the reigns of the blog from our gracious guest editor tonight, Mr. Archie Teuthis. I think he did a…
View More KRAKEN Day: The Final Tentacle