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…
Friday Deep-Sea Picture (08/31/07)
A microscopic baby octopus was collected in plankton samples from a 2005 expedition to the Sargasso Sea. National Geographic posts more photos at their website…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (08/31/07)A Little Early Friday Morning Link Love
Stumbled upon the site Catalogue of Organisms for those with an inordinate fondness for systematics. It’s high on the geek-o-meter which is probably why I…
View More A Little Early Friday Morning Link LoveThis is the true story…
…of ten strangers, picked to be on the same expedition, 5 scientists and 5 evangicals working together to find out what happens, when people stop…
View More This is the true story…Is there springtime for the Abyss?
Think of the changing seasons around you, and the way plants and animals respond to these changes. Trees change color. Birds migrate, and bears go into hibernation. So, we wonder, what are the seasonal cues in the abyss? Are summer days longer than winter days in the deep-sea? What’s the ocean equivalent of rainfall, anyhow?
View More Is there springtime for the Abyss?A Sub I Can Actually Afford
A great website called howtoons produces cartoon how-to guides to build a variety of thing to teach children, and adults, basics of engineering and science.…
View More A Sub I Can Actually AffordWhich Luxury Sub Are You Buying?
Attack of the Giant Sea Foam
Poor Aussies in Sydney got nailed by a giant mixture of salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed that whipped up into…
View More Attack of the Giant Sea FoamNewsletter 8 from CenSeam
The Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) project released Newsletter No 8 earlier this month. Visit their website to download this and other editions.…
View More Newsletter 8 from CenSeamExperiments in ocean acidification
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to more dissolved CO2 in the world’s oceans. In turn this will increase the hydrogen ion…
View More Experiments in ocean acidificationTGIF: “Fish Guys”
Between the online game with the ROV and this movie from YouTube, you’ll be sure to get no work done today. This “Fish Guys” movie…
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