Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literature
An e-mail just made me shout a barrage of expletives. In a good way. Some poor intern at Marine Science Review is probably wailing in…
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CSI Macondo: Fingerprinting the oil that got away
Unlike the blown out Macondo well, scientific data surrounding last year’s oil spill has been coming out in a painfully slow trickle. As the oil…
The Ship, The Sub, The Shuttle – We Should Blame Ourselves
Today, Scott Olson published an editorial at TCPalm, a local news site for Palm Beach area on some very deep misgivings that all of us…
Exploration, thy name is Atlantis
If everything goes smoothly, this morning at around 11 o’clock, four brave souls strapped to 800,000 gallons of liquid oxygen, hydrogen and hydrazine will ride a…
World Oceans Day events at the Smithsonian
World Oceans Day – June 8 – is creeping up on us once again and this year’s seems to have special significance, since it comes…
One year after the oil started
One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three…
DSN Scientist in Residence Eric Heupel Revisits Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Mortality Event
Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
Cold hard data vs warm baby dolphins
There’s a lot of press happening right now about an “unusual mortality event” underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico involving dead dolphins, particularly young…
Umm Thanks?
Two days ago I posted on the fiasco that characterized Transocean’s recent decision to give out bonuses because of their terrific 2010 safety record. This…
Transocean Has Big Brass Balls
In what will surely take the 2011 Audacity Award Transocean Ltd. made a statement Friday that it had its “best year in safety performance.” O’ no they…