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…
Jackson Browne Would Be on the Ocean
Of Jackson Browne is one of my musical heroes. And it goes to show that great songwriting goes hand in hand with a love and…
View More Jackson Browne Would Be on the OceanCold hard data vs warm baby dolphins
There’s a lot of press happening right now about an “unusual mortality event” underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico involving dead dolphins, particularly young…
View More Cold hard data vs warm baby dolphinsFish-driven robot!
Via Aili C-F, who asks “What happens when the dolphins discover this technology and then the dolphin robots attack???” Well, it might look something like…
View More Fish-driven robot!For my grandmother, who was born at the wrong time
My grandmother, Edith Goldstein (“Nana”), passed peacefully away in her sleep on Tuesday night at the age of 99. She was known for her intelligence…
View More For my grandmother, who was born at the wrong timeDear Sir Richard Branson
Dear Sir Richard Branson, I don’t know if you read DSN. Probably not. That’s fine. I realize you are probably busy making making money.If you…
View More Dear Sir Richard BransonHawaii Dive-0! 1,000th Dive of the Pisces Submersbiles
Marine scientists recently celebrated the 1,000th dive of one of their twin manned submarines off the coast of Hawaii.Scientists from the University…
View More Hawaii Dive-0! 1,000th Dive of the Pisces SubmersbilesI’m on a (solar-powered) boat!
I want one of these for Christmas or sooner. If some of you all could make that happen for me, that would be super. Just…
View More I’m on a (solar-powered) boat!Science in a fishbowl
A couple of weeks back I did a radio interview for Georgia Tech’s public station WREK 91.1. With permission from the hosts of Inside the…
View More Science in a fishbowlFossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power
Although counterintuitive to some fossil fuels are a killer. “There is no question,” says Joseph Romm, an energy expert at the Center for American…
View More Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear powerJapan Finds Radiation in Fish
Go back to work there is nothing to see here Japanese authorities said Tuesday they had discovered for the first time fish swimming off the…
View More Japan Finds Radiation in Fish