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…
Lubchenco’s 1st Day at NOAA
Was marked by a guest appearance… [From The Washington Post] “She has a fine corner office at 15th and Constitution — nothing fancy, but excellent…
View More Lubchenco’s 1st Day at NOAAFriday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampedeSeeking Carnival of the Blue Submissions
We are hosting the next edition of the Carnival of the Blue this upcoming Monday. Send me your submissions by Sunday evening for inclusion to…
View More Seeking Carnival of the Blue SubmissionsKraken rising in South Florida
Marco News reports a giant squid surfacing off South Florida. Dr. Hiro Tasaki, of the Osaka Deep-Sea Institute of Japan adds meaning with a rather…
View More Kraken rising in South FloridaCan we get excited now?
President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean…
View More Can we get excited now?Trophy fish, back in the day
What better way to get at the question of recreational fishing impacts to ocean wildlife than to study historical pictures of the day’s catch on…
View More Trophy fish, back in the dayFriday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a Wave
Imagine yourself from the inside of the wave, barreling shoreward, and exploding out into millions of watery pieces. Intense stuff. Clark Little, a surfer from…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a WaveTGIF: Polychaete
Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
View More TGIF: PolychaeteClickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below.…
View More Clickable maps: Google vs MicrosoftThe Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 5
Is over at Southern Fried Science. I thought I was pretty hairy, but man look at the russian bear with the shark! We are moving…
View More The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 5