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…
Making that deep-sea connection to mangroves
Think of an aquatic habitat as far away from the deep-sea as you can get without coming up on land, and we will find a connection to the deep-sea. River rock = settlement substrate. Kelp forest = urchin food. Beaches = spawning grounds for tuna food. Mangroves = seafood … food. Bumper stickers in the Carolinas say it best – “no wetlands, no seafood.”
View More Making that deep-sea connection to mangrovesNew Scientist Goes Deep
Lots of cool stuff from New Scientist in the last week! Don’t have much time to offer an analysis of them as I am down…
View More New Scientist Goes DeepDeep Sea Car Wash
Angela was out documenting World Ocean Day in London last week and spotted a bit of the Deep in her neighborhood! Go check out her…
View More Deep Sea Car WashInvert Pictures…TGIM?
Sometimes pictures are too cool to wait for Friday. My friend Tom K. sent these along for my enjoyment and now yours. The first is…
View More Invert Pictures…TGIM?Big Freakin' Ostracods
I like things in the deep! I think about them when I sleep. It does not matter if they’re red or blue, swim or crawl.…
View More Big Freakin' OstracodsThis Is The Story of Carbon…
…and where it goes…how it got there..its trials and tribulations. This week in carbon sequestration theater we explore Little Petey Carbon and (sing out loud)…
View More This Is The Story of Carbon…Carnival of the Blue #15…
…is now up at Sea Notes, the wonderful little blog of the mighty Monterey Bay Aquarium
View More Carnival of the Blue #15…Jellyfish patrol on Barcelona beaches
Lifeguards in the Mediterranean have a new problem, and they have overfishing, pollution, and global warming to thank for it. Stinging jellyfish invaded beaches off…
View More Jellyfish patrol on Barcelona beachesInterviewed!
For those who care what blathering I have to espouse, my friend Peter Buckland of the blog Forms Most Beautiful, interviewed me regarding my work…
View More Interviewed!Say Hello to Matt, the Newest Acqusition!
ScienceBlogs has a new blogger in town! I’m excited about Built on Facts. Matt is a graduate student in physics at Texas A&M who blogs…
View More Say Hello to Matt, the Newest Acqusition!