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…
TGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea Fan
The depth record for deep-sea fans is held by Convexella krampi at 5850 meters in the frigid Antarctic, North Atlantic, and Kermadec Trench.
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View More TGIF: Day At the BeachFrom Birth to The Origin: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge
In honor of our main man today, Charlie D, the Southern Fried Scientist and I are having a Darwin beard challenge. To have an even…
View More From Birth to The Origin: The Great Darwin Beard ChallengeDeep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California
Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and…
View More Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja CaliforniaSeahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…
View More Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocoralsScience is Rock and Roll Baby!
I wish my talks had posters like this. The Biology Dept. at University of North Carolina commissioned a local indie poster designer to create flyers…
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Rick notes that… US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today his intention to shelve plans passed on the final business day of the…
View More Yeah!Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong…
View More Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The TimeI Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…
…from the Echinodermata. Chris Mah has heard my call and unleashed the World Asteroidea Database. This will definitely make roll call easier when I assemble…
View More I Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind…
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