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 (August 10, 2007)
“Holy jumping jellyfish, Batman. Watch out! That thing’s heading straight for us.” “Not to fear, young ward. That’s Enypniastes sp., a swimming sea cucumber.” “A…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (August 10, 2007)The Race for the Arctic
More on the race to claim the Arctic. The Russian “scientific” operation was a sham. Despite the fact that a huge number of people were…
View More The Race for the ArcticWhat’s That Over There?
…munitionsFrom the daily blog of the University of Washington students aboard R/V Thomas Thompson using the ROV ROPOS to conduct seafloor surveys in support of…
View More What’s That Over There?What's That Over There?
…munitionsFrom the daily blog of the University of Washington students aboard R/V Thomas Thompson using the ROV ROPOS to conduct seafloor surveys in support of…
View More What's That Over There?And the first cetacean to disappear as a result of human activity…
Goes to the Yangtze river dolphin… After a fruitless search lasting six weeks, scientists failed to find a single Yangtze river dolphin, also known as…
View More And the first cetacean to disappear as a result of human activity…Deep corals of Washington State
It stands to reason that a place blessed with the mountains, beaches, and emerald forests along the Olympic Coast of Washington State in Pacific Northwest should be equally beautiful, productive, rich, and wonderful on the continental break just offshore- 200m or 300m below the tideline.
View More Deep corals of Washington StateScience Tattoo
Carl Zimmer over at The Loom as a post titled Branded with Science. So I’m wondering now–have I bumped into the tip of a vast…
View More Science TattooAnd the #1 Thing Not To Do With Your Own Submersible…
…go near the QE2 Duke Riley, a heavily tattooed Brooklyn artist, was arrested after his homemade submarine that looked like an 18th century Bushnell Turtle…
View More And the #1 Thing Not To Do With Your Own Submersible…Tragedy At Sea
From [email protected]… Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a…
View More Tragedy At SeaCarnival of the Blue III
The latest and best of salt-water writing is up at Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets.
View More Carnival of the Blue III