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…
Open House
This Saturday July 19, 2008 from 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m. is the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Open House. If you are in central…
View More Open HouseOrigin of the Oceans
Tonight on the National Geographic Channel at 10pm EST/PST Earth the Biography: Oceans. An episode on Atmospheres is before it at 9pm. “Explore how half…
View More Origin of the OceansAnd Here We Go
From CNN… President Bush will announce Monday he is lifting an executive order banning offshore oil drilling, the White House said. If President Bush can…
View More And Here We GoNuke the Whales T-Shirt!
Show your support for the destruction of whales! T-shirt design is officially sanctioned by the governments of Japan, Norway and Iceland. Get yours now at…
View More Nuke the Whales T-Shirt!Maybe the Japanese and Norwegians Are Right
We should be decimating whales right now! They are obviously vicious killing machines, bent on doing evil and destruction.
View More Maybe the Japanese and Norwegians Are RightBasking Sharks Go Wide and Deep
Basking sharks are heavily exploited from the shark–finning industry. The damage is compounded by the fact we know so little about their distribution in the…
View More Basking Sharks Go Wide and DeepIn the Future, We Live on Glorified Lilypads
When global warming raises the sea levels and wipes out most of the large cities of the world. We can rest assured that our floating…
View More In the Future, We Live on Glorified LilypadsWhy Does Excel Insist on Being Insolent?
It seems that Microsoft Excel* doesn’t know how to average. Or am I missing something? I showed to the lab postdoc and we both we…
View More Why Does Excel Insist on Being Insolent?How to Keep Jellyfish in Aquariums
Chad Widmer, an aquarist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, just released a brand spanking new book on jellyfish aquarium maintenance. I volunteered under Chad (with…
View More How to Keep Jellyfish in AquariumsIs it all over for corals?
A recent study published in Science Express by Dr. Kent Carpenter of Old Dominion University and a consortium of nearly thirty coral reef ecologists has determined that one-third of coral face increased extinction threat due to anthropogenic influences. Carpenter refers to the problem as the “the human meteor”.
View More Is it all over for corals?