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…
TGIF: Great Song and Great Video
New Zealand band Fat Freddys Drop mix it up with deep sea life.
View More TGIF: Great Song and Great VideoFriday Deep-Sea Picture (10/19/07): The Art of Kawika Chetron
I 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 ChetronSenate To Fund Ocean Acidification Research
A 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 ResearchReally Big Lobsters & The People Who Save Them
How 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 ThemBoring?…Hardly…Lifeless & Barren?…Not Even Close
I 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 CloseNew Expeditions With Pictures
Two 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 PicturesA Conversation With Cindy Lee Van Dover
For 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 DoverSeamount biogeography
A seamount is a rocky underwater mountain with more than 1000m relief. Roughly 14,000 exist worldwide. How are they connected? Are they isolated islands, or stepping stones for highly dispersed deep-sea creatures?
View More Seamount biogeography2007 DSN Education Fundapalooza Report and Prizes From Seed
If you haven’t heard our Seed overlords are offering $15,000 in matching funds. Seed is also offering some sweet prizes to donors which you can…
View More 2007 DSN Education Fundapalooza Report and Prizes From SeedTGIF: Sometimes You Just Gotta Dance
Hat tip to Christina Kellogg.
View More TGIF: Sometimes You Just Gotta Dance