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…
Welcome to Kraken Day!
Welcome to the unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN! Why is an unofficial KRAKEN DAY on DSN? We are celebrating all things KRAKEN today in honor …
View More Welcome to Kraken Day!Reef Madness!
In a very generous online experiment, science writer and blogger at Wired Science David Dobbs, is putting up his entire book Reef Madness in small…
View More Reef Madness!Diving With A Vintage Aqualung
Last Saturday, I spend the day diving at Fantasy Lake. I enjoyed two dives at 40-50 feet in the old quarry exploring a rock crusher,…
View More Diving With A Vintage AqualungAquaman In A NYC Taxi
A few weeks back I was speaking to youngsters up in the Big Apple about evolution and marine biology . A few nights prior being…
View More Aquaman In A NYC TaxiAssembling the Little Skate Genome
This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical…
View More Assembling the Little Skate GenomeWho’s your daddy?
Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access…
View More Who’s your daddy?TGIF: Modest Mouse on the High Seas
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View More TGIF: Modest Mouse on the High SeasWelcome To Interwebs Save the Deep Sea Blog
For me DSN is not nearly enough deep sea on the web. Thankfully Save the Deep Sea Blog from the Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) is now here.…
View More Welcome To Interwebs Save the Deep Sea BlogDeep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life Ignored
←Previous Lesson: Early Paradigms and Exploration Edward Forbes spent his life championing a hypothesis whose evidence was flawed and extrapolations unjustified. The idea of a…
View More Deep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life IgnoredJust a, er, quickie
If you live in central Florida and have an interest in marine life, come and hear my wife and I discuss Sex in the Oceans…
View More Just a, er, quickie