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…
Who Owns The Black Swan? Pt II
Yesterday in Part I, I noted that a Spanish newspaper published a picture allegedly from a port employee showing a coin with a bust of…
View More Who Owns The Black Swan? Pt IIWho Owns The Black Swan?
Last week I reported on the potential $500 million dollar haul of coins pulled by Odyssey Marine Exploration of a wreck referred to the “Black…
View More Who Owns The Black Swan?At Sea Blogging in the North Pacific
Kathleen Hardy from the Darling Marine Center will be blogging from sea aboard the R/V Thompson. The month long cruise will take place in the…
View More At Sea Blogging in the North PacificFriday Picture (05/25/07)
There’s a whole new revenue stream on the horizon. Livescience reports that Japanese scientists in the AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), project have learned…
View More Friday Picture (05/25/07)Cheerios & Alvin
You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
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You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
View More Cheerios & AlvinOasis in the Sargasso Sea
Wood’s Hole researchers in the Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (EDDIES) project confirmed that ocean productivity is enhanced by upwelling eddies in the…
View More Oasis in the Sargasso SeaOctopus Boozing On the Seafloor
For some reason the work of Deanna Molinaro just speaks to me. I wonder what it could be?
View More Octopus Boozing On the SeafloorA Virgin Shall Be With Pup
And a virgin shall be with pup, and shall bring forth a hammerhead, and they shall call his name Elasmobranch which being interpreted is, to…
View More A Virgin Shall Be With PupTimes reviews “The Deep”
The New York Times posts a stunning selection of images in their review of Claire Nouvian’s “The Deep”. Craig ran a book blurb on the…
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