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New Research

  • The Carpet Dragon Takes Flight

  • Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm

  • Hump Day Happiness: Dive into Deep-Sea Delights

  • New Deep-Sea Cucumber Has 100 Feet

  • Ancient Origins of the Vampire Squid

  • Holy Glowing Sea Cucumbers!

  • A New Deep-Sea Family of Roly Polies

  • Adaptations Biology Evolution Habitats Hadal & Trench Organisms

    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…

    Dr. M June 17, 2024 No Comments
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  • Conservation & Environment Mining

    Deep-Sea Mining with John Oliver

    Dr. M June 13, 2024 No Comments
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  • Vessels and Equipment

    The Inside Story of the Titan Submersible

    Dr. M June 13, 2024 No Comments
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  • Sharks

    Tiger Sharks Will Nom Nom Anything

    Tiger sharks are sort of generalist feeders. And by generalist, I mean they will pretty much eat anything. And by everything, I mean everything. On…

    Dr. M June 11, 2024 No Comments
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  • Adaptations Biology Ecology Organisms Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

    A Journey to the Hottest Place on Earth: Hydrothermal Vents and the Resilient Pompeii Worm

    I have only seen a hydrothermal vent once, during Dive 73 aboard the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Doc Ricketts. Unlike many deep-sea biologists, I…

    Dr. M June 4, 2024 No Comments
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Opinions and Editorial

  • Abyss Opinion & Editorial Organisms Policy

     The Cost of Fear: How Perceptions of the Deep Sea Hurt Conservation

    Dr. M April 28, 2024 No Comments
  • Cephalopods Opinion & Editorial

    A very special PSA from Deep-Sea News

    Dr. M August 8, 2019
  • Life of Science Opinion & Editorial Scientist!

    What Are Your Research Group’s Scientific Core Values?

    Dr. M January 29, 2019
  • Conservation & Environment Opinion & Editorial Plastic Vessels and Equipment

    The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup

    Dr. M January 6, 2019
  • Conferences Editor's Desk Education Life of Science Opinion & Editorial Scientist! Special

    Can you afford to be a marine biologist? Or a scientist?

    Dr. M December 24, 2018
  • Editor's Desk Education Life of Science Opinion & Editorial Scientist!

    Let’s Kill the GRE

    Dr. M November 23, 2018

Reviews

Yeah I'm A Rock Star Pt II

Dr. M May 8, 2007

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…

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Reviews

Yeah I’m A Rock Star

Dr. M May 8, 2007

Let’s face it Marine Biologists are the rock stars of science not gene jocks , chem nerds, math geeks* but marine biologist. Finally, someone is…

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Reviews

Yeah I'm A Rock Star

Dr. M May 8, 2007

Let’s face it Marine Biologists are the rock stars of science not gene jocks , chem nerds, math geeks* but marine biologist. Finally, someone is…

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Cephalopods

They Sure Beat My Star Wars Sheets

Dr. M May 8, 2007

When I was a kid I had the best set of Return of the Jedi bed linens and curtains. I had a matching waste basket…

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Vessels and Equipment

Genesis May Actually Mean the End

Dr. M May 7, 2007

Rick Macpherson over at the unusually named Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets has an excellent post on why you should think twice about stepping…

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Expeditions

Challenger Expedition

Dr. M May 7, 2007

The Challenger expedition of 1872-76 marks the transition form Victorian to modern science: from the world of the gentleman naturalist to the of Big Science,…

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Expeditions

In Situ Blogging

Dr. M May 7, 2007

At the end of May, I will be out to sea! But alas never fear, because my dedication to the DSN reader is great! I…

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Conservation & Environment

Some Countries agree to end deep-sea bottom trawling

Dr. M May 5, 2007

From ABCNews… The 20 countries meeting in Chile agreed to impose the restrictions from October until a full scientific study can be undertaken on the…

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Uncategorized

From The Desk of Zelnio: R. Cadwallader Smith’s Within the Deep

Kevin Zelnio May 4, 2007

As part of the Gutenberg Project to make available copyright-free (i.e. old) books available in print online, I came across Within the Deep by R.…

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From The Desk of Zelnio: R. Cadwallader Smith's Within the Deep

Kevin Zelnio May 4, 2007

As part of the Gutenberg Project to make available copyright-free (i.e. old) books available in print online, I came across Within the Deep by R.…

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