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…
North Pacific Gyre "Garbage Island" Documentary Parts 10 & 11
Continuing the series of VBS.tv’s TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. It finally gets good. In part 10, “Its totally not like the money…
View More North Pacific Gyre "Garbage Island" Documentary Parts 10 & 11A Primer To Understanding Scientific Papers
I would like to say I have never used any of these statements in my papers but… Statement Really means It has long been known……
View More A Primer To Understanding Scientific PapersA Dichotomous Key to Circus of the Spineless #32
Welcome to the 32nd edition of the Circus of the Spineless. It our distinguished pleasure to be host here at Deep Sea News. To make…
View More A Dichotomous Key to Circus of the Spineless #32Signing off on Coral Week
Well, all good things must come to an end, so this is it for Coral Week. I wanted to finish things on a high note…
View More Signing off on Coral WeekThe naked coral hypothesis: a cause for optimism?
There remains a cause for optimism. Shallow-water corals have weathered a host of insults over the last 18,000 years. The Atomic Age is just one…
View More The naked coral hypothesis: a cause for optimism?Will bottom trawls have negative effects on deep-sea corals?
This is the fifth of five articles about the shared characteristics of shallow and deep-water corals. It’s far from complete, I’m afraid. Deep corals are…
View More Will bottom trawls have negative effects on deep-sea corals?Will climate change have negative effects on deep-sea corals?
Seawater chemistry is changing with the addition of fossil fuel CO2 to the atmosphere. This influx of CO2 is causing the world’s oceans to become more acidic, which is bad news for corals and other marine organisms that use calcium carbonate to build their skeletons and protective shells.
View More Will climate change have negative effects on deep-sea corals?Deep-corals provide habitat for numerous associated species
The biodiversity of Lophelia pertusa bioherms in the North Atlantic rivals the diversity of a shallow water tropical reef. More than 800 associated species have been documented in association.
View More Deep-corals provide habitat for numerous associated speciesIt’s not over!
Coral reefs are in decline around the world, and species are disappearing every day. But new species are being discovered, too. So, can society mitigate species loss by investing in species discovery?
View More It’s not over!It's not over!
Coral reefs are in decline around the world, and species are disappearing every day. But new species are being discovered, too. So, can society mitigate species loss by investing in species discovery?
View More It's not over!