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…
DEPTHX to Europa by 2019
At the beginning of March, DSN reported on DEPTHX. The picture is of DEPTHX. It weighs about 1.2 tons, shaped like a mushroom, and can…
View More DEPTHX to Europa by 2019Can I Eat Monkfish?
The answer is still no but read below if you care to know why you cannot eat monkfish (maybe better known as anglerfish). In January,…
View More Can I Eat Monkfish?On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…
For the ultra rich in the next decade the Waldorf-Astoria is probably going to be a bit passe. “My pomeranians and I had spent every…
View More On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…Plastic Expanding Inevitable
Apparently the pelagic pollution phenomenon is beyond clogging the stomachs of the marine megavertebrates, and it’s making people fat, too. Think about that the next time the cashier double-bags your one gallon jug of milk. For the sake of the ocean, say “paper please”.
View More Plastic Expanding InevitableKeeping Ties on Jenny
Kick ’em Jenny is a 1300m submerged volcano residing about 8km off the Grenada coast and the only live submarine volcano in the West Indies. …
View More Keeping Ties on JennyFriday Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) Jug Handling
One of the benefits of my office being on the shore is seeing this some mornings. The behavior of sticking one fin out of the…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) Jug HandlingFriday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray Shells
Each of these gastropods are from the deep sea in the North Atlantic near 1500m. Each is is a few mm in height.
View More Friday (-1) Deep-Sea Picture (05/11/07) X-Ray ShellsAllah Fish!
I once had a corn chip that looked like Sammy Davis Jr. Unfortunately I was hungry and consumed it. I stumbled across this in my…
View More Allah Fish!3000 Dives, 3000 Hits, and S.J. Gould
In The Flamingo’s Smile, a compilation of Gould’s articles for Natural History, there is a lengthy discussion of the principle of decreasing variation within established…
View More 3000 Dives, 3000 Hits, and S.J. GouldYeah I’m A Rock Star Pt II
In case you missed the link for the mp3 of A Marine Biologist. Here it is. Make sure you visit Darkest of the Hillside Thickets…
View More Yeah I’m A Rock Star Pt II