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: I Hate Nature 2
In case you missed the first installment. Here is the second installment of Atten’bore’ough’s I Hate Nature series. (NSFW)
View More TGIF: I Hate Nature 2TGIF: Drunk Octopus Wants To Fight You
Drunk Octopus wants to fight you. Via this isn’t happiness & AC-F.
View More TGIF: Drunk Octopus Wants To Fight YouMove Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way…
View More Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking OverUN Adopts Resolutions on Coral Reefs and Marine Biodiversity
The UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) Second Committee [also known as the Economic and Financial Committee of the full Assembly] recently concluded its 65th session. To…
View More UN Adopts Resolutions on Coral Reefs and Marine BiodiversityAlvin: From Old School to New School
Alvin this week will begin a 40 million dollar overhaul. The biggest retrofit in its 40 years of diving. Improvement include: A new personnel titanium sphere with…
View More Alvin: From Old School to New SchoolI just found oil in my core!
Breaking news from my lab bench this morning: I started processing our post-spill samples collected closest to the blown out Macondo well, and lo and…
View More I just found oil in my core!Peer Review May Increase Mortality Rates
A special hat tip to Twisted Bacteria for bringing this to my attention Every December, the journal Environmental Microbiology publishes a collection of humorous quotes…
View More Peer Review May Increase Mortality RatesI Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s Ex
I’m a contrarian. Majority consensus makes me shudder. I just like rooting for underdogs*. Those undersea ridges at the boundaries of tectonic plates, spewing molten…
View More I Like Sills But Not A Fan Of The Popular Or My Friend’s ExWhere’s the Ocean Love?
DSN will be featuring some guest posts from Danny Richter – A Ph.D Student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego studying diatoms stems…
View More Where’s the Ocean Love?Best. E-Card. EVAH!
Run, don’t walk, to The Twelve Days of Fishmas and behold the bestest holiday e-card ever. Brought to you by Jo and Joe Underwater Animated…
View More Best. E-Card. EVAH!