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…
Anatomy of an ecological catastrophe: what to expect in the Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill continues to worsen. Choppy seas and unfavorable winds have hindered cleanup efforts, and fishing has been suspended from Lousiana…
View More Anatomy of an ecological catastrophe: what to expect in the GulfThe Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: A Timeline
I spent a summer as an undergraduate in Port Fourchon, Louisiana conducting field work. Some of my fondest memories surround that summer I spent in…
View More The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill: A TimelineResearchBlogCast #4: Decreasing Predator Size Increases Prey Numbers
Each week Dave Munger, Razib Khan and I discuss a recent paper from ResearchBlogging.org. This week was my turn to choose and we discussed the…
View More ResearchBlogCast #4: Decreasing Predator Size Increases Prey NumbersThe Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old Ostracods
KAZ – A new occasional series modeled from Ed Yong’s Pocket Science where I will briefly report a few cool studies and tell you why…
View More The Tide Pool: New Jelly, Misplaced 6-Gill, Old OstracodsAnd the Rattail Was All Like ‘Dude! Just Trying to Get a Drink Here’
Serioulsy though, I cannot get enough of the Neptune Canada youtube channel. You won’t find this stuff on Animal Planet kids. Loving it! Whats your…
View More And the Rattail Was All Like ‘Dude! Just Trying to Get a Drink Here’TGIF: Desert Island
Hat tip to Michael Barton, FCD.
View More TGIF: Desert IslandGuest Post: The Largest Habitats on Earth
Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep…
View More Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on EarthResearchBlogCast #3
Now as a podcast in iTunes ( search “ResearchBlogcast” in the iTunes store)! This week we tackle a paper on the DASH diet and its…
View More ResearchBlogCast #3Heading to Monterey!
I’m heading off for the rest of the week to work at Dr. M’s old stomping grounds, MBARI. I’ll be staying at the Moss Landing…
View More Heading to Monterey!Mysterious Sounds from the Deep
The NOAA Vents program of the Pacific Marine Environmental lab in Oregon has released some haunting sounds picked up by their underwater autonomous hydrophone array.…
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