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: Spoon Worms and Nudibranchs
Artour A’s flikr account contains several truly spectacular marine and terrestrial invertebrate photographs. At Kevin’s other garage blog, Eric originally brought my attention to this. …
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View More TGIF: Fish BlimpFall is so refreshing or the Beagle's eye in the sky
Fall is so refreshing. New semester, new things happening, a chill in the air. It’s practically Christmas in Texas, if you ask me. Halloween is…
View More Fall is so refreshing or the Beagle's eye in the skyThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!
Fending off a sneak attack by the wily isopod.#9 Bathynomus giganteus (Phylum: Arthropoda, Class: Malacostraca, Order: Isopoda, Family: Cirolinidae) Beware the giant isopod. When it…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #9: Bathynomus, the GIANT ISOPOD!!!!Dispatch from Sea: DISCOVRE Expedition
One of the problems we face as deep-sea biologists is our limited understanding of the 4th dimension – temporal variability. We don’t know much about…
View More Dispatch from Sea: DISCOVRE ExpeditionThe 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #10: Echinothuriid Sea Urchins
You have to go to Echinoblog for #10 because who better to write about echinoderms than Doc Echinoderm. The quick and dirty of why these…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #10: Echinothuriid Sea UrchinsOysters on the Half-Shell, Vote for Miriam!
Our good ocean blogging friends at The Oyster’s Garter are finalists in the Marx Foods Oyster Contest! Deep Sea News is fully endorsing Miriam and…
View More Oysters on the Half-Shell, Vote for Miriam!The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower Basket
#11 Euplectella sp (Phylum: Porifera, Class: Hexactenellida, Family: Euplectellidae) [This Post is brought to you by Amanda Kahn a graduate student at Moss Landing Marine…
View More The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species: #11 Venus's Flower BasketDISCOVRE Expedition
The NOAA RV Nancy Foster is now on her fourth leg of deep-water ROV work in the Gulf of Mexico. Things have been steadily improving.…
View More DISCOVRE ExpeditionSanta Barbara Ocean Film Festival
Does my heart long for Southern California? Everytime a new movie comes out worth the $15 ticket. So, not that often, but fairly regular. Who…
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