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 New Navy Has Both Faster and Unmanned Subs
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which commissions research for the Defense Department, gave Electric Boat a truckload of money in 2006 to design a…
View More The New Navy Has Both Faster and Unmanned SubsSend a Blogger to Antarctica!
The blogger’s blogger, GrrlScientist from the blog Living the Scientific Life, is trying win a competition to get sent to Antarctica to blog about for…
View More Send a Blogger to Antarctica!Seawater Redefined
What do you think of when see the term “seawater”? Salty water? Perhaps fish-poo-covered-bacterial-ooze-slime-haven-so-salty-I-puke-in-my-snorkel-every-time-it-touches-my-tongue? Well, the definition of seawater has been limited by how we…
View More Seawater RedefinedNautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Cup of Joe
From our ol’ friend Navy lore: Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862-15 January 1948) was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913.…
View More Nautical Phrase/Term Wednesday: Cup of JoeU Hav Plasicz In Yr Oceanuz
This Sunday, August 2nd, a major scientific expedition to study the issue of plastic accumulation in the North Pacific Gyre will depart San Diego. The…
View More U Hav Plasicz In Yr OceanuzForbidden Love
He was a squid from the wrong side of the ocean. She, a mild mannered but inquisitive squash from a rural farm. Theirs was a…
View More Forbidden LoveBad Moko. Bad dolphin. Go home now.
Have you heard about Moko the dolphin? Moko is a three-year-old bottlenose dolphin from New Zealand that gained fame in March last year, when he…
View More Bad Moko. Bad dolphin. Go home now.Oops! I Did It Again…
Was messing around with my web host server and lost the last 3 days of comments! I was able to rebuild the posts and sidebar…
View More Oops! I Did It Again…Dedicated to All the Women Marine Scientists
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View More Dedicated to All the Women Marine ScientistsTGIF-Deep Sea Beer and Southern Fried Science
My colleague and officemate, the Southern Fried Scientist, posted way back in March about his homebrew South Su Porter. South Su is a hydrothermal vent…
View More TGIF-Deep Sea Beer and Southern Fried Science