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…
Hurricane and Global Warming Mitigation Industry?
ATMOCEAN, a firm based in Santa Fe, NM with Philip W. Kithil at the helm, is according to their website the company is “at the…
View More Hurricane and Global Warming Mitigation Industry?The Most Fearsome Predator In History…Is No Longer History
If you missed the book Meg, which is probably for the best, I just heard through the grapevine that a movie is in developmental hell.…
View More The Most Fearsome Predator In History…Is No Longer HistoryGiant Squid of Christmas Past
Slate recycled an old story about Giant Squid just before Christmas. Daniel Engber’s review provides lots of interesting links and factoids about ammonium and bouyancy…
View More Giant Squid of Christmas PastOde to the Great Taxonomists
New York Times is running a nice article called “Old Men and The Sea” about two remarkable marine biologists that passed this year, Drs. Cadet…
View More Ode to the Great TaxonomistsAlvin has Pilots?
I don’t know if you guys caught the comment below from Bruce Strickrott, Chief Pilot of the DSV Alvin. We have been trying to get…
View More Alvin has Pilots?I’m Outta Here
Will be gone to the Canary Islands for a conference until the 15th to give my spiel. You will be in the very capable and…
View More I’m Outta HereI'm Outta Here
Will be gone to the Canary Islands for a conference until the 15th to give my spiel. You will be in the very capable and…
View More I'm Outta HereA Quiet Place for Whales
Natural Resources Defense Council is leading the fight to make the Pacific Ocean off California a more peaceful place for migrating whales. So far, they…
View More A Quiet Place for WhalesBoston, Attleboro, and the Deep sea
The recent welcome of Attleboro H.S. has me reflecting on time spent in Boston as a graduate student. Boston is a wonderful town with great…
View More Boston, Attleboro, and the Deep seaNew Sharks
From The Daily Review… It is amazing what you find lying around the bottom of the ocean, as St. Mary’s College professor Douglas Long has…
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