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…
Friday Deep-sea Picture: Phakellia sponge (07/24/08)
Deep Sea News’ Friday edition has a new mission – to “restore” small black and white figures from obscure scientific journals to their original color,…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Phakellia sponge (07/24/08)TGIF Video: Johnson Sea-link Submersible
This is an exterior shot of the submersible that collected and photographed the Phakellia sp. sponge from 170 m depth off Florida in the Friday…
View More TGIF Video: Johnson Sea-link SubmersibleArrr Cat
Fishing with dynamite in El Salvador
In an alarming trend, the practice of “dynamite” or “bomb” fishing has spread recently to Central America. Reports are coming in that hawksbill turtles are…
View More Fishing with dynamite in El SalvadorRising Fuel Costs Hurt Marine Research
Nature News reports: “Many of the research projects launched as part of the International Polar Year (IPY), which runs from March 2007 to March 2009,…
View More Rising Fuel Costs Hurt Marine ResearchDolly comes ashore Part 5
We can’t joke around too much about this Hurricane Dolly, I’m afraid. The weather is not terrible here in Corpus, but conditions are rapidly deteriorating…
View More Dolly comes ashore Part 5Hurricane stokes tuna consumption, Part 4
I am liveblogging Hurricane Dolly from Corpus Christi, Texas. It’s raining here in the Coastal Bend. Not too much wind. Thanks to the storm we…
View More Hurricane stokes tuna consumption, Part 4Hello Dolly, Part 3
The second Atlantic hurricane of the year has arrived. Hello Dolly.
View More Hello Dolly, Part 3Clouds in the Hood, Part 2
Clouds can be a sailor’s best friend. Given, you’d have to be an awfully lonely sailor, and probably have to scratch a half dozen unmentionables off the list before you ever got to “clouds”, but, … hey, some modern sailors keep a nice cloud book with them in the navigation room. OK?
View More Clouds in the Hood, Part 2Global Bathymetry Map
BrianR at Clastic Detritus brought my attention to a new wonderful bathymetric map of the globe. Despite his questionable loyalty to volcanoes, Brian knows a…
View More Global Bathymetry Map