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…
Gulf Sampling: White Sand with Black Spots
Well I’m back in the lab after two solid weeks in the field. I rented a new car with 6 miles on the odometer and…
View More Gulf Sampling: White Sand with Black SpotsPenguins Immediately Benefit From MPA
There is much buzz these days about marine protected areas (MPAs) and no-take zones. We are approaching the age of assessment. There has been enough…
View More Penguins Immediately Benefit From MPALGBT in Ocean STEM Survey
Hello ocean science, technology, engineering, and math readers. I need your help. I’m writing an analysis on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) composition in…
View More LGBT in Ocean STEM SurveyCircus of the Spineless #55 is up!
Roberta at Wild About Ants (honorary marine invertebrates btw) has the latest edition of the Circus up!! Its a beautifully laid out edition – The…
View More Circus of the Spineless #55 is up!The silent destroyer, the floaty assassin
This gem courtesy of Herr Doktor Byrnes. Too bad they didn’t mention the barnacle’s other famous attribute.
View More The silent destroyer, the floaty assassinMinorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a…
View More Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black ProfessorsTubulogenerina narghiLinka
Do NOT F$#% WITH FORAMS. FOR REELZ GUYZ!!1! Skeptic Wonder has a nice article on a how a deep-sea foram lashes out its “legs” to…
View More Tubulogenerina narghiLinkaThe Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lug
I first discovered Dr. Pat Krug when he gave a talk at Scripps and revealed that he had named a new species of sea slug…
View More The Slug Song, and more from Dr. Krug the slug drug lugNot Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral Reefs
When you’re in the biodiversity conservation biz for any significant length of time, you inevitably develop a thick skin to grim pronouncements of ecosystem collapse…
View More Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral ReefsWill Gulf science be compromised by politics?
I’ve officially arrived back in New Hampshire (freezing my tanned little arms off, btw) after my marathon sampling trip in the Gulf, and I’ve been…
View More Will Gulf science be compromised by politics?