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…
Conservation Kills: The Power of Choice
Ocean fm (Ireland) reports that… Fishermen’s lives are being put at risk because of the strict rules that apply to when they can fish in…
View More Conservation Kills: The Power of ChoiceBest of Deep Sea News 2006
Our Best of the Abyss awards were conceived to recognize important deep-sea happenings around the world, and intended to pay our humble respects to all…
View More Best of Deep Sea News 2006What is the Sound of One Hydrothermal Vent Venting?
And if no one is around will it still make a sound? Crone and cronies et al. on the open access PLoS One explore the…
View More What is the Sound of One Hydrothermal Vent Venting?What Is Biogeography?
As followup to this post, I will discuss what biogeography is. Largely, biogeography can be seen as subdisipline of the fields of ecology and evolution.…
View More What Is Biogeography?Best of the Abyss 2006
Just when you thought you escaped the onslaught of annual reviews in the media, along comes a slacker post from the Deep Sea News. Craig…
View More Best of the Abyss 2006Biogeography
The last forum at the International Biogeography Society meeting discussed how biogeographer’s might increase public outreach. Unfortunately little attention was given to what I feel…
View More BiogeographyAlvin Pilot Video
Peter’s post on the Alvin pilots generated an email from Janet Voight, deep-sea cephalopod expert extraordinaire, pointing me to this great video. Enjoy.
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Finally got back from my meeting minus a piece of luggage or two. Unfortunately the trip came with a shocking reality of anthropogenic effects on…
View More Link-O-RamaGear bias in global warming estimates
A new article in Journal of Geophysical Research by Gouretski and Koltermann shows global warming estimates since the 1950’s are positively biased 0.2 – 0.4…
View More Gear bias in global warming estimatesFilm Fest in Frisco
The Ocean FilmFest begins its fourth year in San Francisco January 20-21. My second resolution is to make this the last year I miss it.…
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