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…
DSN’s Future…
There is an exciting change for DSN. What is it? All will be revealed shortly in just a few days.
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Circus of the Spineless is up at Hectocotyli! This is the Circus of the Spineless, rubes! Where the only vertebrae are the steel girders of…
View More TGIF: Carnivals and more penguinsYou Sure Are a Big Fella Earl
In Durham, I am nearly 2-3 hours from the North Carolina coast. With relation to Earl, the local forecast is that this far inland we…
View More You Sure Are a Big Fella EarlCalm Before the Storm
My wife snapped this pic of the finger of Hurricane Earl over our home in Wilmington, NC. These preceding clouds look innocent and quite beautiful…
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I just returned from five days of backpacking in the Ansel Adams Wilderness to be faced with the yearly article on Stupid People in the…
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Dispersants! Part III: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?
Promoting microbial degradation of oil has been one of the main arguments in favor of dispersant use. Interestingly, the PWSRCAC review (covering literature from 1997-2008)…
View More Dispersants! Part III: Do dispersants really promote degradation of oil?Thermolinkus thioreducens
The latest Maritime Monday over at gCaptain. Shrimps love sea urchins!! Echinblog has the proof. The surreal Ice Aquarium. Yes, it is in Japan. Did…
View More Thermolinkus thioreducensWhat is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It.
Twitter is a microblogging site, restricting posts, i.e. Tweets, to 140 characters or fewer. This limit allows real-time posts to be made using SMS (short…
View More What is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It.Is Science on the Gulf Oil Spill Skewed?
Newsweek has a great write up about how independent scientific queries into the Gulf of Mexico are being squashed. Only are few scientists were able…
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