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…
Words fail me for this title
Much has changed in the last weeks. Indeed, things have been changing for the last year. No matter which way your sentiments fall, we can…
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I’m the modern day equivalent of a massive Carboniferous dragonfly
I am annoyingly the first one to return to the surface after any scuba dive. My bottom time exploring the wonders of the aquatic realm…
View More I’m the modern day equivalent of a massive Carboniferous dragonflyCalibrating Your Internet BS Sensors in 9 Easy Steps
Friends, Americans, country people, lend me your ears. You need to get your respective s#%@ together. Both my right and left leaning friends have bombarded my…
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From Our Family of Turkeys to Yours
Just wanted to take a moment of gratitude today to thank all the people who have followed us and made DSN what it is over the…
View More From Our Family of Turkeys to YoursThis Thanksgiving Remember the Cranberry Bog Dolphin
We at DSN are not typically fans of the dolphins but we’re no monsters. I love cranberry sauce out of the can but I do want…
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Wherever it GOES, I GOES, we GOES. NOAA and NASA launch another satellite acronym into space.
What did you do this weekend? Well if you were NASA, you successfully launched NOAA’s brand-spanking new weather satellite GOES-R. Packed with six instruments, this geostationary…
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Science For the People, By the People
“As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.” -John James Audubon There are few books I have seen as spellbinding…
View More Science For the People, By the PeopleFrom smooth to bumpy, how Marie Tharp changed our view of the sea floor
Give a woman some data, and she’ll change the science world. At least that’s what Marie Tharp did. A skilled cartographer, her maps showed the…
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Craig With Big Things (and Small Things)
I have a confession. I am obsessed with ridiculously large and small things. While other children impatiently anticipated toys for Christmas, I enjoyed just as…
View More Craig With Big Things (and Small Things)Adopt the giant deep-sea isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, as the National Deep-Sea Animal of the United States.
If you are an avid DSN reader then undoubtedly you know our fascination with Giant Isopods. Back in the early days of 2007, I was…
View More Adopt the giant deep-sea isopod, Bathynomus giganteus, as the National Deep-Sea Animal of the United States.