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…
Calypso Club?
Some of you may remember that when we left ScienceBlogs I wrote… “When I was much, much younger, I joined Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso Club (named…
View More Calypso Club?Picks from Sony Photography Awards
New Scientist is showing some of their favorite picks in natural history category of the Sony World Photography Awards. This one is a favorite, entitled…
View More Picks from Sony Photography AwardsTGIF: El Niño on YouTube
It’s Friday, learn something. Concentrate on the soothing voice of the narrator. Relax. Breathe deeply. You are floating on a thermocline. Southern Fried Science has…
View More TGIF: El Niño on YouTubeFriday Deep-sea Picture: Illustrator James Jean
Talented illustrator and Fables cover artist James Jean has a blog called ProcessRecess (awesome) where he’s showcasing different versions of an award winning series of…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Illustrator James JeanWarfare Ecology
Six months ago in the yesteryear of 2008, Machlis and Hanson outlined in Bioscience a new subfield of study titled warfare ecology. As the authors…
View More Warfare EcologyA Ring of Fire…
From Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State. Hat tip to Nature‘s The Great Beyond.
View More A Ring of Fire…Global Ocean Exploration’s new website
Last week I posted an article about consulting for the marine sciences as a follow up to Craig’s story “how to be a deep-sea biologist“.…
View More Global Ocean Exploration’s new websiteGene Regulators
This shizzle be grizzle fo’ my rizzle. Dizzle? Word out!
View More Gene RegulatorsHappy Birthday to Southern Fried Scientist!
One of only 2 people in the world that actually give a damn about deep sea fungi. Here’s to your 25th, Cheers!
View More Happy Birthday to Southern Fried Scientist!The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 3
Daniel at Biochemical Soul is hosting this (last) week’s Darwin Beard Challenge. I must say we are getting quite hairy!
View More The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 3