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…
Wait, did I just become a commodore?
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”…
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Science Spoiler Alert: Finding Dory
In which Dr. Milton Love ruins the magic behind Finding Dory with Science, but we love him anyways. TUNE IN HERE
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Build your very own CTD. Then kiss it and love it and call it George.
OMG OMG OMG OMG, Andrew Thaler, Kersey Sturdivant and Russell Neches over at Oceanography for everyone have just published a Build Guide for the OpenCTD,…
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The Ocean Cleanup deployed a prototype and I honestly have A LOT of questions
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 questionsROBOT VS. SEAPEN
Who 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…
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The Ethics of Respect for Nature
Lately I have been saddened by a series of unfortunate events that have become all to common. These incidents center around one central theme-…
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TGIF: Elasmo-Lite-Brites
Basically, the ocean is a glowing rave of awesome…but you already knew that. Happy Friday!
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One thing I’ve learned from the Okeanos Explorer’s ROV trip to the Marianas Trench, is that deep sea jellyfish just like to let it all hang…
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Hard Celebrity Science: The Ocean Salinity Edition
The story of sea salt. It’s a story of geology, endurance, and erosion. Unfortunately, this story seems to be unknown to several persons of dubious copious fame. And…
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The origin of ripples and other fantastic fluid experiments by Hertha Marks Ayrton
To any one who, for the first time, sees a great stretch of sandy shore covered with innumerable ridges and furrows, as if combed with…
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