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…
We Will Miss You Peter!
Time to fly
I expected an obstacle course on Commencement Day, just one more hurdle to clear, but the book length manuscript was delivered, and the defense was…
View More Time to flyPlease Help Bring Back Bing!
My good blog buddy Mike Haubrich is in a bind and needs some help. His son Bing is stuck in Japan. To get him back…
View More Please Help Bring Back Bing!TGIF: Color Me Squid
CreatureCast Episode 1 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. Hat tip to Pharyngula. Like PZ said, “This is communicating science”. Well done on the part of…
View More TGIF: Color Me SquidTGIF: O’ those crazy aquatic mammals? Wait a minute…
At the Rayavadee hotel in Krabi, Thailand Aurora gives birth to her latest calf at 3:39 PM, on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at the Vancouver…
View More TGIF: O’ those crazy aquatic mammals? Wait a minute…Northeast Pacific Seamount Map: a Gift that Keeps Giving
If there was a mountain in your backyard with no name, how long do you think it would stay that way? Not very long. Some…
View More Northeast Pacific Seamount Map: a Gift that Keeps GivingWednesday Nautical Term/Phrase: Cranky
To be irritable. “Dr. M. is cranky because it is before 10AM and he has not had coffee” From Brian Berlin…“Possibly from the Dutch krengd,…
View More Wednesday Nautical Term/Phrase: CrankySimple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
The 285 macrourid fishes, the rattails, whiptails, and grenadiers, are one of, if not the, most abundant fish in the deep. You cannot throw…well anything…without…
View More Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor CarrionEngineering Photo Contest
From the BBC: Cambridge Engineering Department posts the winners for this year’s photo-contest. The winner was “Pebble” a photo of a “photographic vessel” engineered for…
View More Engineering Photo ContestThe Policy and Politics of Deep Sea Corals
This is a special guest post by Ken Stump of the Marine Fish Conservation Network for Deep Sea News, intended to help build awareness about…
View More The Policy and Politics of Deep Sea Corals