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…
“Marine Mysteries” At Sant Ocean Hall
Can’t make it to DC anytime soon, like me? Voice of America has a nice video tour of the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian…
View More “Marine Mysteries” At Sant Ocean HallHow far will a turtle go to save his species?
Mr Leatherback has a MySpace page and a YouTube page. I love this guy. He’s on Facebook and Twitter. He’s been just about everywhere in…
View More How far will a turtle go to save his species?Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis
Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…
View More Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysisThriving In Extreme Conditions
…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…
View More Thriving In Extreme ConditionsOcean Acidification, Not Good For Living
Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the…
View More Ocean Acidification, Not Good For LivingOceanography On the Chopping Block
Word from Tallahassee is that oceanography may be out at FSU! Florida State administrators this afternoon released a draft of proposed wide-sweeping cutbacks at the…
View More Oceanography On the Chopping BlockWhaling protests bad for business
Japanese Fisheries Agency blamed Mother Nature and her bastard stepchild the Sea Shepherd Society for missing this year’s quota of 60 fin whales and 935…
View More Whaling protests bad for businessThe Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 8
Is over at Southern Fried Science. I must say, the beard makes the men. Serioulsy though, have your eyes been witness to such awesome beauty…
View More The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 8Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali pirates
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Somalian pirates received payback for their hostilities on Easter Sunday. Members of the U.S. Navy shot and killed…
View More Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali piratesMarine and Aquatic Science at PLoS One
I was extremely flattered a year ago to be invited to join the academic editors at PLoS One. In that time I worked diligently to…
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