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…
Oil Spill Update for June 10, 2010
Where is the oil? Today’s oil spill forecast predicts: Onshore (SE) winds are forecast to continue through Friday at 15 knots or less. Persistent southwesterly…
View More Oil Spill Update for June 10, 2010Putting Oilmageddon 2010 in Context
When I posted Iglu’s revised Oil Spill Timeline a few days, I didn’t give much thought to visual properties of the data presented in the…
View More Putting Oilmageddon 2010 in ContextResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?
Each week Razib Khan, Dave Munger and I discuss a paper that was recently blogged on in the Researchblogging.org. This week I chose the following…
View More ResearchBlogCast #8: Protecting the Environment Reduces Poverty?Colbert Shows Obama How to Be Angry About the Oil Spill
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View More Colbert Shows Obama How to Be Angry About the Oil SpillHappy World Oceans Day!
We here at Deep Sea News tardily wish you a very happy World Oceans Day! (Excuses: Dr M’s off a-conferencing in Iceland, I’m frantically prepping…
View More Happy World Oceans Day!Oilmageddon Timeline Update
UPDATE June 9: The black circles are misleading, due to an error in their math. See an accurate comparison from David Bradley at Sciencebase. The…
View More Oilmageddon Timeline UpdateWhat in Darwin’s Name Are Chaetognaths?!
Lynn Margulis classified the Chaetognaths, known as arrow worms, as deuterostomes. Deuterostomy is characterized by several developmental characteristics including radial, indeterminate cleavage, a posterior position…
View More What in Darwin’s Name Are Chaetognaths?!Spawning in the Oil
Hat tip to commenter Kelly. Consider the Bluefin Tuna. Highly prized meat, commercially valuable, the science points to serious over-harvesting, yet was not deemed by…
View More Spawning in the OilOrcas and Oil: Repost
REPOSTED FROM MAY 2008 When a scientist is writing a scientific paper we look for that one quintessential figure that tells the whole story. Other…
View More Orcas and Oil: RepostOil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: My Thoughts
A professor once told me that whether religious or not, each and every one of us has a geographical locality that we feel a deep…
View More Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico: My Thoughts