The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight
Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science…
The recent string of violent tragedies, both in the USA and abroad, have wrenched our hearts and left our minds baffled. Minnesota, Dallas, Baton Rouge,…
View More An open letter from DSN to our fellow scientistsThis week the best part of the 90s has returned in full force with the Niantic’s release of Pokémon Go. You guys, this is like…
View More The Worst Ocean Environments to “Catch Em’ All”So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba…
View More What are these giant tube-shaped animals showing up in the Azores?From Wikipedia… Traditionally, “commodore” is the title for any officer assigned to command more than one ship at a time, even temporarily, much as “captain”…
View More Wait, did I just become a commodore?In which Dr. Milton Love ruins the magic behind Finding Dory with Science, but we love him anyways. TUNE IN HERE
View More Science Spoiler Alert: Finding DoryOMG OMG OMG OMG, Andrew Thaler, Kersey Sturdivant and Russell Neches over at Oceanography for everyone have just published a Build Guide for the OpenCTD,…
View More Build your very own CTD. Then kiss it and love it and call it George.Judging from the number of emails Miriam and I received from reporters today, the general public wants to hear what we have to say about…
View More The Ocean Cleanup deployed a prototype and I honestly have A LOT of questionsWho knew that a battle between an articulate robotic sampling arm and a colonial organism related to soft corals rooted to the seafloor could be so…
View More ROBOT VS. SEAPENLately I have been saddened by a series of unfortunate events that have become all to common. These incidents center around one central theme-…
View More The Ethics of Respect for NatureBasically, the ocean is a glowing rave of awesome…but you already knew that. Happy Friday!
View More TGIF: Elasmo-Lite-Brites