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…
100 Million Year Old Giant Sperm
Barnacles may have big penises but ostracodes of the superfamily Cypridoidea have giant sperm. Ostracode range are mostly near a millimeter but sperm range from…
View More 100 Million Year Old Giant SpermAnnouncing La Defense
This went public today over the TAMU-CC listserves, the first attempt to tie all my deep-sea coral research from the last three years together into…
View More Announcing La DefenseMamas don’t let your babies throw up filling carboys
Filling up 20 liter carboys with ocean water on the R/V Elakha for the Giovannoni Lab at Oregon State University
View More Mamas don’t let your babies throw up filling carboysDiscovery Channel: Friend or Foe of Sharks?
This is the question that has been floating around the marine blogs this week. The complaint is that Discovery Channel “is promoting negative stereotypes about…
View More Discovery Channel: Friend or Foe of Sharks?To Blog or Not To Blog
Recently, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory said it would require bloggers to ask permission before blogging about a presentation, just like reporters. A surprising editorial in …
View More To Blog or Not To BlogBonus TGIF: Orca Attack
Orca’s doing what they do best…working together to be voracious predators. Not so cute and cuddly?
View More Bonus TGIF: Orca AttackTGIF: 2 Fails For the Price of 1
Winch Brake Fail: “This is a video taken during sea trial of a newly built merchant vessel in Germany. When testing the anchor winches it…
View More TGIF: 2 Fails For the Price of 1Coral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverTravel picks for 12th Deep-Sea Biology Conference
Registration for the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Conference in Reykjavic, Iceland doesn’t start until January 2010, but the bags are already packed. The 12th Deep-sea Biology…
View More Travel picks for 12th Deep-Sea Biology ConferenceMATE Center’s International Student ROV Competition
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s International Student ROV Competition just occurred in Buzzard’s Bay, Mass. This is the competition for those who already…
View More MATE Center’s International Student ROV Competition