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…
Jurassic Journey, the Preview
Leatherback turtles are huge! They look like big, black, barnacle-encrusted sea zeppelins, or something. See them in this trailer for Jurassic Journey. The production quality…
View More Jurassic Journey, the PreviewCali the turtle “spinning in circles”
I signed up for daily updates on the Great Turtle Race from Conservation International, hoping to get some insights on the pace of the race,…
View More Cali the turtle “spinning in circles”TGIF: Carl Safina on the Great Turtle Race
Dr. Carl Safina is one of the great ocean communicators. But can he speak turtle? Here Carl is photographed coaching one the the Leatherback turtles…
View More TGIF: Carl Safina on the Great Turtle RaceTGIF: Fly-through Marianas Trench
Special thanks to Peter Sloss, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center.
View More TGIF: Fly-through Marianas TrenchTGIF: Dance Your Sea Turtle Dissertation
From the world famous “Dance Your Dissertation” contest, now on YouTube with a methods section. This video depicts a dissertation entitled “The invention and adoption…
View More TGIF: Dance Your Sea Turtle DissertationThe Great Turtle Race begins again!
In 2007, an inspired group of sea turtle researchers launched an event called the Great Turtle Race, in which they tracked satellite tagged animals across…
View More The Great Turtle Race begins again!Jacques Cousteau YouTube Video Roundup
Jacques and team in the Arctic John Denver talks about how he composed Calypso, and released this 1994 video inspired by his friend Jacques Cousteau…
View More Jacques Cousteau YouTube Video RoundupThings You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?
I regularly check out the Google search phrases and terms for how people arrived at DSN. A few days ago I saw that someone asked…
View More Things You Get To Do When You Are A Marine Biologist?Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!
KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…
View More Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: Chock-A-Block
Items packed so tightly together as to prevent movement. A chock is typically a wooden wedge used to secure moving objects on deck and in…
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