The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight
Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science…
The deep ocean (deeper than 1km) is a CO2 sink. Deep water masses are cold and dense which minimizes vertical mixing with overlying ocean layers.…
View More The Deep Ocean May Not Save UsAbel Pharmboy over at Terra Sigillata has a nice write up about Therapeutic Natural Products from the Sea. The ocean fauna is the potential host…
View More One More Reason to Conserve the OceanIndustrial fishing operations take most of the blame for collateral impacts to sea-turtle populations, but new research shows that small-scale fisheries–operated by hand from little open boats –can kill as many critically endangered loggerhead sea turtles as industrial scale fisheries.
View More Loggerhead turtles die by thousands in small fisheryNew Zealand band Fat Freddys Drop mix it up with deep sea life.
View More TGIF: Great Song and Great VideoI am relaxing the 200m rule for DSN, to bring you some photographs from one of my favorites, Kawika Chetron. To say that Kawika’s photos…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (10/19/07): The Art of Kawika ChetronA bill in the senate has passed that will focus research on ocean acidification. The Lutenberg Measure, crafted by Senator Frank R. Lutenberg (D-NJ) and…
View More Senate To Fund Ocean Acidification ResearchHow much would you pay to save a lobster? $160 is the amount Chris Crowell and his wife Jyll Prole paid to purchase a lobster…
View More Really Big Lobsters & The People Who Save ThemI am concerned about comments on a few websites and in the press over the last year. Most disheartening is a EU memo entitled “Questions…
View More Boring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even CloseTwo major expeditions took place in the last few months. The first explored Celebes Sea south of the Philippines from the surface to a depth…
View More New Expeditions With PicturesFor much of Cindy Lee Van Dover’s professional life, she has been a pioneer…In 1990, she became the first woman with a license to pilot…
View More A Conversation With Cindy Lee Van Dover