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…
Brine Pools
Laser line scan mosaic of a pool of brine surrounded by mussels at a depth of 700 meters in the Gulf of Mexico. From here.…
View More Brine PoolsPig Butt or Marine Worm?
From MBARI: This is a worm? This photograph of the newly named worm shows its mouth, which typically faces downward as the animal drifts about…
View More Pig Butt or Marine Worm?Vent Mining
Wired Magazine is running an interesting story on Nautilus Minerals and their plans to mine the seafloor off Papua New Guine. The media offerings and…
View More Vent MiningYou Ask, I Answer
A great response from the readers to last week’s Pose a Question post. Here are some answers. Jim inquires, “What’s the current take on a…
View More You Ask, I AnswerThe ’10 weird things about me’…the meme.
Tagged by the meme from Adventures in Ethics and Science and Retrospectacle… I have OCD tendencies. All the hangers in my closet have to be…
View More The ’10 weird things about me’…the meme.The '10 weird things about me'…the meme.
Tagged by the meme from Adventures in Ethics and Science and Retrospectacle… I have OCD tendencies. All the hangers in my closet have to be…
View More The '10 weird things about me'…the meme.How Did That Get There?
An expedition to reveal the secrets of a mysterious huge hole at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean started overnight.
View More How Did That Get There?Wine and Whales
Every since I worked at wine merchant in Natick, MA to pay for my tiny apartment during graduate school, I have enjoyed Italian wines. My…
View More Wine and WhalesIPY Stamps
In celebration of IPY, the Canadian Post has released a set of stamps (above). One of these is the polar, deep-sea jellyfish, Crossota millsaeare. The…
View More IPY StampsLive from the Gulf of Mexico
Secrets of the Gulf Expedition is broadcasting live footage of submersible surveys at 100m depth around the Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf of Mexico.…
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