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…
Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, Inhibitions
Yep, that’s right. They get it on with any male gamete that passes their way. They just don’t give a [rhymes with duck]. Boom chaka-laka-boom.…
View More Female Urochordates Have Few, If Any, InhibitionsOil Spill Update: July 1st 2010
72 days… Will crowdsourcing and money create a solution? X-Prize Announces $10m prize for oil spill solution Is there an inherent risk for accidents in complex…
View More Oil Spill Update: July 1st 2010New Communications System Promises Untethered, Undersea Vehicles Who Will Destroy the World
From PhysOrg… Using the 11,000 meter-rated Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) as a test platform, engineers at WHOI recently demonstrated a new communications and…
View More New Communications System Promises Untethered, Undersea Vehicles Who Will Destroy the WorldHell-on-Earth Flyover of the Gulf of Mexico
While the commentary actually makes this sound appropriately apocalyptic, please ignore the cheesy last minute sound bite. hccreekkeeper writes on his youtube page for this…
View More Hell-on-Earth Flyover of the Gulf of MexicoCircus of the Spineless #52 is up!
John at Kind of Curious has the latest Circus of the Spineless up!
View More Circus of the Spineless #52 is up!Oil In Gulf’s Food Web
From Harlan Kirgan, Mississippi Press… Oil droplets have been found beneath the shells of tiny post-larval blue crabs drifting into Mississippi coastal marshes from offshore…
View More Oil In Gulf’s Food WebThe Complex Science of Predicting Oil Plumes
Blowouts and the subsequent dispersion of oil and gas in deep and shallow water differ immensely. In shallower waters, expelled gas will contribute to the…
View More The Complex Science of Predicting Oil PlumesCrimes Against Marine Life Exhibit Now Open at National Museum of Crime & Punishment
This summer, the National Museum of Crime and Punishment (NMCP) is taking a deeper look at injustices happening in our seas. In cooperation with the…
View More Crimes Against Marine Life Exhibit Now Open at National Museum of Crime & PunishmentClean Up the Gulf Win a Few Million Dollars
From gCaptain… Just yesterday, speaking at the TedxOilSpill Conference in Washington, D.C., Francis Beland, VP, Prize Development at the X Prize Foundation, announced it’s plans to…
View More Clean Up the Gulf Win a Few Million DollarsInvisible But Not Forgotten
I’m sure you’ve noticed by now how much the media loves tug-on-the-heartstrings images of oiled birds, dead fish and mile-wide slicks. But have you heard…
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