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…
Shark Attacks Increase…
…maybe as retaliation for killing them off. The last estimate of 71 in 2007 compared to 63 in 2006, continues a four year increase. One…
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You are a giant swarm of Antarctic krill migrating daily from sunlit surface waters down to the 4500m in the abyss. Some portion of your…
View More Sexual refuge for krill in the abyss?CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!
Thanks to Rick MacPherson, Program Director for the Coral Reef Alliance (and fin-tastic blogger!), for this shirt. We met a few weeks ago at the…
View More CORAL: Conservation Never Looked So Good!The Human Impact on Marine Systems
Fig. 1 from Halpern et al. Global map (A) of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types. (Insets) Highly impacted regions in the Eastern…
View More The Human Impact on Marine SystemsJust One Thing Challenge #5
So how did going organic affect your pocketbook? I imagine for many of you it didn’t add as much as you thought it would. This…
View More Just One Thing Challenge #5The Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access Journals
Currently a biodiversity crisis is underway, which many have termed the sixth extinction. E.O. Wilson in 1993 suggested 30,000 species extinctions occur per year, roughly…
View More The Biodiversity Crisis and Open Access JournalsTGIF: Monk Seal at 1781 Feet
Trawling Effects Seen From Space
In this detail from a Landsat satellite image from 1999, individual vessels in the Gulf of Mexico can be seen as bright spots at end…
View More Trawling Effects Seen From SpaceFriday deep-sea picture (February 23, 2007)
Leonardo Solaas is an artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina who invented a way for you to generate your own original digital art pieces based upon…
View More Friday deep-sea picture (February 23, 2007)LOLRhizocephalans: Plotting to Take Over the World
Rhizocephalan overlord,Peltogaster paguri (tubular thing sticking up on the right), infecting hermit crab. Photo courtesy of Jens Hoeg, used with permission. Rhizocephala are curious creatures.…
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