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: Genius Octopus Editionus
Why are we encouraging this behavior!! Doesn’t everyone know that in the future they will rise out of the oceans to destroy us????
View More TGIF: Genius Octopus EditionusFind your Inner Fish
World Wildlife Fund has an entertaining new website called WaveForward where you can “discover your inner fish” by answering a few questions about where you…
View More Find your Inner FishEarly TGIF: Deep Sea Tentacle, The Musical!
Since I saw this on Youtube I can’t that clever little jingle out of my head. The short animation and music is by the obviously…
View More Early TGIF: Deep Sea Tentacle, The Musical!Public Dissection of Giant Squid
The Melbourne Museum is doing the unthinkable. They are unleashing a giant, rotting, stinking, mound of invertebrate flesh upon the public (July 17th at 11:30…
View More Public Dissection of Giant SquidChallenger Expedition on Google Earth
People seem fascinated by the prospect of purchasing virtual real estate at Second Life, but if you ask me, Google Earth is a better place to stake your claim. For instance, I study deep sea-fans, or gorgonians. Many of these have their first description in the reports of the HMS Challenger expedition 1873-1876. The maps are now online at Google Earth.
View More Challenger Expedition on Google EarthNo-Take Reserves Work
Who would of thunk it? Like Mark Powell recently stated: “In the “duh” category, fish are thriving in a no-fishing zone in Australia. After looking…
View More No-Take Reserves WorkOekologie XVII: Reconciliation Time
Madhusudan Katti has the latest and perhaps greatest Oekologie blog carnival ever. Its HUGE and with such a great and diverse selection. Well done Madhu!…
View More Oekologie XVII: Reconciliation TimeA Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas?
Admittedly, before reading the actual paper I was a little uneasy about the latest paper in PNAS by Goldberg et al. The paper describes a…
View More A Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas?1000th Post
Dear readers, I am very excited to announce that we have exceeded 1000 posts here at Sb. This was supposed to be the 1000th post…
View More 1000th PostSizzle
“Like we really really want to make this film and we feel really passionate about global warming and feel really upset by it. We just…
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