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…
(Sieve) Size Matters
Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these…
View More (Sieve) Size MattersDead Zones Are Here To Stay
In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was…
View More Dead Zones Are Here To StayGuide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern Ocean
The Cephalopod beak guide for the Southern Ocean. ..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and…
View More Guide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern OceanRum and Kraken!
Finally someone has brought to of my favorite things together…hard liquor and cephalopods. Unleashed on the world is Kraken Black Spiced Rum! Hat tip to…
View More Rum and Kraken!Donate Or We’ll Let Loose the Crabs from Hell!
We need to reach $2000 by Sunday! If we reach this goal, HP will give us another $2000 to donate for Oceans in the Classroom!…
View More Donate Or We’ll Let Loose the Crabs from Hell!A Gift For the Next Donor
The next person to donate $25 to our challenge will get a commemorative DSN shrunken styrofoam cup taken to 3200m on the Juan de Fuca…
View More A Gift For the Next DonorBlood Belly Comb Jelly
Great video of a comb jelly with its silica plates that are reflecting light. These plates are aligned in rows or combs and thus the…
View More Blood Belly Comb JellyA Marine Scientist’s Best Friend: A Homage to McMaster Carr
During my scientific career I have learned many valuable lessons and garnered wisdom from my senior colleagues. For example, when responding to the reviewers and…
View More A Marine Scientist’s Best Friend: A Homage to McMaster CarrChopping Up Whales For Science!
I am standing in the back of a large lorry, my feet submerged in a pool of blood, water and oil. The truck’s container is…
View More Chopping Up Whales For Science!Donor’s Choose Update
Within short time, the challenges form Eric H. and Brian from Sandshack were met. A big thanks goes to both of them once again for…
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