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…
#IAmSeaGrant
Edit – broken mailto link at bottom fixed – if you have a story, please send it to me! I plan to put a few…
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When Is An Internship Not An Internship?
An interesting discussion is playing out on NOAA Coral List regarding how we define “internships.” This got started after the Roatan Institute for Marine Science…
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Trolling in the deep: from raging rants to support of the strange
Today’s guest post is by Natasha Phillips, a marine biologist and PhD researcher based at Queen’s University Belfast, interested in the movement ecology, diet and…
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Look at These Amazing Deep-Sea Creatures from the Remote Pacific Right Now
[View the story “Discovering the Deep: Exploring Remote Pacific Marine Protected Areas” on Storify]
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How to recover when something goes very, very wrong at sea
No shit, Sherlock. A staggering achievement – fishing for a 2m thing in 5000m water with a 10,000m line … very, very well done. https://t.co/gvKiU23H9B…
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Every morning, I wake up and check my email. Overnight, I get a few pings from mailing lists, people in other time zones, spammers –…
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The importance of being NOAA
Did you look at the weather before you left the house today? NOAA provided that data. Do you eat salmon, shellfish or even McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish?…
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Support LUMCON ocean scholarships, and get rural, low-income kids hooked on marine science!
How do we solve the diversity problem in marine science? This a complicated question without a single answer – but there is no question that we…
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The Little Strawberry Squid with the Big Eye
If I were ever to write a Little Golden Book on par with The Poky Little Puppy it would about cute, little, and red, deep-sea…
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You Had Me at Seaweed-based Glitter
As I was doing my morning internet perusing, I came across this fun video of a glittery bath bomb making a heinous mess is someones…
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