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…
The Queen of the Grand Banks Schooners
This is where I’d like to be this Monday morning.
View More The Queen of the Grand Banks SchoonersWhat the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical…
View More What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?Unfortunate News of the Week
The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in India’s motto is “The Technology for Harnessing the Wealth of the Ocean Starts Here.” In April, NIOT…
View More Unfortunate News of the WeekDeep Sea Tweets for March 20th, 2010
Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 20th, 2010
View More Deep Sea Tweets for March 20th, 2010The Deep Sea Is Chimaera Country
Beautiful, high-quality footage of Chimaeras captured by Neptune Canada. Story here.
View More The Deep Sea Is Chimaera CountryDeep Sea Tweets for March 19th, 2010
Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 19th, 2010
View More Deep Sea Tweets for March 19th, 2010Friday Cephalocomics
Apparently Batman + Lightsaber vs. Shark was just the start of an oceanic comics avalanche. Please enjoy 20,000 Leagues of DANGER!!! from the excellent comic…
View More Friday CephalocomicsThe Dark Side of Male Pregnancy
Nicely narrated by Henry Gee! See the paper here: Paczolt KA, Jones AG (2010) Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male…
View More The Dark Side of Male PregnancyUnderwater Junkyard Off California
Of course, the sad thing is that this scenario is likely to occur in deep water along the majority of coastlines. Hat tip to @scubadivergirls.
View More Underwater Junkyard Off CaliforniaDeep Sea Tweets for March 18th, 2010
Below the fold is a summary of tweets from March 18th, 2010
View More Deep Sea Tweets for March 18th, 2010