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…
Almost There!
This is HUGE thank you to all of you who have pushed up to 86% of our goal. Our goal is $1100 which was more…
View More Almost There!TGIF: Salmon Dance
Here it is, you have earned it! Still trying to figure out the salmon which doesn’t really look like a salmon at all. It might…
View More TGIF: Salmon DanceFriday Deep-sea Picture (Oct. 4 2007)- Stamp from Haiti
This is one of the stamps Dr. Frederick “Ted” Bayer painted for a coral reef series from the country of Haiti. Dr. Bayer passed away…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture (Oct. 4 2007)- Stamp from HaitiThere Will Be No Future Marine Biologists Without Your Donation
Why is this boy crying? Because we are only at 25% of what we need to fund three needy classrooms. We can definitely do this!…
View More There Will Be No Future Marine Biologists Without Your DonationThat's A Lot of Microbes
From USA Today… Hot vents deep in the ocean harbor thousands of previously unknown microorganisms, scientists report. By examining the DNA of microbes taken from…
View More That's A Lot of MicrobesFree Old Oceanography Data Online!
The National Museum of Natural History now has the station data and original cruise logs from the research vessels Albatross and Blake online. NOAA Ocean…
View More Free Old Oceanography Data Online!Young Oceanographers Are A Rowdy Bunch
Kids pay attention! Oceanography and drugs don’t mix. …a third-year student at UF, was arrested during an Introduction to Oceanography class…for the charges of cocaine…
View More Young Oceanographers Are A Rowdy BunchIn memoriam: Dr. Frederick "Ted" Bayer
Frederick “Ted” M. Bayer, 85, a retired Smithsonian curator in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and one of the world’s leading experts on marine invertebrates, passed away earlier today after a long illness on October 2 at Washington Home in Washington, D. C.
View More In memoriam: Dr. Frederick "Ted" BayerAll You Have To Give is $10
We are slowly creeping toward our $1100 goal. I know from our site stats that we have several hundred returning readers. Now if 100 of…
View More All You Have To Give is $10More Prizes For Donors
Jason over at Cephalopodcast has generously donated a copy of The Bioluminescence Coloring Book (with glow-in-the-dark paint!) and the video Marine Bioluminescence: Secret Lights in…
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