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…
Deep Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
This is a tale of cause and effect in the deep sea woven by threads of hypotheses held together by the loom of targeted sampling…
View More Deep Sea Corals and Methane SeepsTGIF-Leech Addition
Apparently you can watch the whole original (1950 era) movie at Youtube. Its teh awesum.
View More TGIF-Leech AdditionDSN Back and Better!
At least we hope you think so! I took advantage of the downtime and server transfer to redesign our site a little. I love the…
View More DSN Back and Better!DSN Servers Epic Fail
I am in the process of moving our servers right now. We had an epic fail in dealing with Godaddy (do not recommend) and have…
View More DSN Servers Epic FailGiant Isopod Fail
This is a giant isopod. This, on the other hand, is not. To reiterate, this is a giant isopod, a species in the genus Bathynomus,…
View More Giant Isopod FailEye in the Sea camera to feature CarcassVision
The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will be freshly baited with a frozen sea lion carcass in a camera deployment set for August 14th, in the deep Monterey…
View More Eye in the Sea camera to feature CarcassVisionSquid Fail
Point 1: The Giant Squid is Architeuthis dux. The Humboldt (or the Red Devil or Jumbo) Squid is Dosidicus gigas Point 2: The Humboldt Squid…
View More Squid FailPlease, call me Doctor
I successfully defended my dissertation thesis today at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. The presentation went well, 45 minutes exactly. Following that, I was grilled…
View More Please, call me DoctorMarine Music Greatest Hits
On the vast expanse that is the wondrous internet, I occasionally come across something that actually enriches my life…occasionally. Luckily, Matt posted a comment here…
View More Marine Music Greatest HitsOnce Again, I Called It
Like I said, the Great Alaskan Blob was Palin algae. Preliminary results indicate that it doesn’t look toxic. See Time Magazine: “Algae blooms,” she says.…
View More Once Again, I Called It