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…
Forbes Dredge Song
“Song of the Dredge”, presented by Edward Forbes to the British Association at its annual meeting in 1839. Sung in the tune of Cream by…
View More Forbes Dredge SongMusic to sink whale carcasses to.
Musings from Kevin… So you are out on the ocean and need some inspiration for the long nights by the dredge? Well, have I got…
View More Music to sink whale carcasses to.From The Desk of Zelnio: Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis
Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octipodidae) Octopus are one the most fascinating and intelligent of the invertebrates. Yet, little is known about their role in the…
View More From The Desk of Zelnio: Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalisSubmerged eddie off Baja California Sur
Eddies are an important nexus between physical oceanography and marine biology because these giant swirling tornadoes of seawater are pervasive in the world’s oceans. Passing…
View More Submerged eddie off Baja California SurThe Benefits of Seawater
Hope over at Benefits of Seawater suggests my original debunking of Original Quinton Marine Plasma was not “logical”. First, who is ‘Hope’? She is a…
View More The Benefits of SeawaterDSN rolls off the press in Daytona
The ongoing story of our letter to the Pope made ink Friday at the Daytona Beach News Journal. This was my first Op-Ed letter. It…
View More DSN rolls off the press in DaytonaWhy I Don’t Work With Dolphins
Why I Don't Work With Dolphins
Scientists Are Sadistics, Arrogant, Cruel, Etc.
Sue Falconberg over at the American Chronicle lambastes scientists in her writeup Anderson Cooper. …the reporters back home showed footage, at the tail end of…
View More Scientists Are Sadistics, Arrogant, Cruel, Etc.Friday Deep-Sea Picture (04/06/07)
Scanning electron microscope image (x 25000) of the coccosphere (Acanthoica acanthifera) collected in the North Atlantic. From the British Natural History Museum
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