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…
The Largest Arthropod Ever!
Caption below under next figure: Image from “Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod” (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend…
View More The Largest Arthropod Ever!How to Save The Ocean
&Here’s the list beginning with my thoughts. Hopefully the readers can suggest other ideas and revisions with the goal of this being a central archive…
View More How to Save The OceanA Better Deep-Sea Poster
Speaking of deep-sea posters, Dr. Charles Messing (Nova Southeastern University), who ordinarily works on crinoids and deep-sea corals and just generally a renaissance man, has…
View More A Better Deep-Sea PosterJapanese go whaling for humpbacks
A friend of mine from Japan used to like to begin his grad school seminar talks with a favorite recipe for preparing whale meat. His…
View More Japanese go whaling for humpbacksMRSA Killed By Deep-Sea Bacteria
Before this marine-based life I worked in a hospital. One thing that scared the @#$% out of me was methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. When…
View More MRSA Killed By Deep-Sea BacteriaNot Club Med But Club Dead
One of my visions for the future is my wife and I enjoying full-bodied French and Italian wines in our villa overlooking the Mediterranean. In…
View More Not Club Med But Club DeadFriday Deep-Sea Picture (11/16/07) – Poster Art
Deep-sea poster art could make a great Christmas gift, don’t ya think? This one from Allposters.com is unique because it has a black-light quality. It…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (11/16/07) – Poster ArtTGIF: Yellow Submarine Bagpipe Remix
Real Time Dissertation
We at DSN try to report on the research as it happens. Now we report on research before it happens! DSN’s old whipping boy Kevin…
View More Real Time DissertationGorton's Law
Over at the World’s Fair… Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What’s that exactly? Well, first read this…
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