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 Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea Fish
New cool research from Wagner et al. that despite the lack of “day” and “night”, deep-sea fish experience daily cycles. What is the trigger? Diurnal…
View More The Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea FishSomething To Get You Through Hump Day
@#$% Wednesdays!
View More Something To Get You Through Hump DayHelp Me Identify This
So my current research focuses on the influence of canyon topography on the biodiversity and body size of deep-sea invertebrates. To address this requires lots…
View More Help Me Identify ThisPissing in the Ocean
Ocean Nourishment Corporation of Sydney, Australia just got the green light to dump several hundred tons of industrially-produced urea in to the Sulu Sea between…
View More Pissing in the OceanAttack of the Crab Man!
I was just thinking the other day how I wish I had crab claws so I could crush academic opposition. Grab the children and run…
View More Attack of the Crab Man!Saba Road
People once believed “The Road” could not be built on Saba Island until civil engineer Josephus Lambert Hassell took a correspondence course in engineering and organized a crew of locals to start construction in 1938.
View More Saba RoadTGIF: Anchor Scar- the movie
Thank God it’s Friday. Work moves to the back burner, social issues move to the front burner. This week we provide two underwater movies to…
View More TGIF: Anchor Scar- the movieFriday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through corals
Oil tankers drop their anchors on Saba Bank while waiting to approach the port in St Eustatius, and it’s causing serious damage to coral reefs and their associated habitats.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (11/02/07) – Anchor dragged through coralsMy friend the Tiger Shark
This here 8′ tiger shark below circled me and Dr. Juan Armando Sanchez twice as we collected gorgonians in 25m of water in a flat rubble landscape on the Saba Bank interior last week.
View More My friend the Tiger SharkSquid Coin
Slow news week but stumbled upon this over my morning cup of joe.
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