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…
British Petroleum, You Broke My Heart
Dear BP, I know it’s hard to admit, but it seems like we’re just not as close as we used to be. We don’t seem…
View More British Petroleum, You Broke My HeartOil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At Risk
From Science Daily… Thousands of barrels of oil are leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon site each day. The oil ascends from depths of approximately…
View More Oil Spill Puts Cold, Deepwater Corals At RiskThe Last Refuge
UPDATE: Glendon is now offering this beautiful piece of deep-sea art as prints on his website! Products range from cards to full size poster prints…
View More The Last RefugeOff To the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium
Follow me next week on Twitter (DrCraigMc) to hear all the updates from the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Symposium. Those attending and tweeting make sure to…
View More Off To the 12th Deep-Sea Biology SymposiumOil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt II
“No matter what took place & why it happened, the oil spill in the Gulf belongs to all of us”-Sheril Kirshenbaum BP manges to completely…
View More Oil Spill Update: June 3, 2010 Pt IIOil likely to reach east coast: update for Thurs June 3
Where The Oil Is Going Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) released a series of simulations showing that the oil in the…
View More Oil likely to reach east coast: update for Thurs June 3Circus of the Oiled Spineless #51
The Circus of the Spineless is now past 50 editions. This is one of the longest survived blog carnivals out there thanks to an awesome…
View More Circus of the Oiled Spineless #51Building the Ship’s Brain
A new National Geographic special on building the world’s largest cruise ship. While I am not much of a fan of cruise ships, ship-building and…
View More Building the Ship’s BrainOil Spill Update: May 31st 2010
The newest update is that British Petroleum’s ‘top kill’ (animation, description from engineers) and ‘junk shot’ will join ‘top hat’ in the list of failed…
View More Oil Spill Update: May 31st 2010Behold the Rimicanoe!
Southern Fried Scientist has finally posted our latest creation. Those follow @sfriedscientist and @kzelnio on twitter may have heard us mention Project S. It is…
View More Behold the Rimicanoe!