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…
The Beauty of Rarity
Legend has it that Saint Patrick gave a four-leaf clover to a group of his followers; the fourth leaf put there by God to bring…
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One thing you should know about me is that I am from New York and I am half Italian. That means when I like something,…
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You are what you eat! Using bad boy carbons to understand food webs
Remember all the details about the periodic table from high school chemistry? Yeah, me neither. Don’t worry – we will get through this together. Let’s…
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The Video of Giant Isopods Eating an Alligator in the Deep Sea You Must Watch!
You may not realize it but the video below is the video you never knew you needed. But yeah you need it. The video is…
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How many species are in the deep sea?
In the beginning, people mused the expansive oceans contained but a handful of organisms. This idea started with Pliny the Elder, who lived in the…
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How is the deep sea so diverse? The struggle is real for late 1900s ecologists
The year is 1967. A paper is published that causes pandemonium in the scientific community. The discovery causes a fundamental shift in thinking divergent from…
View More How is the deep sea so diverse? The struggle is real for late 1900s ecologistsAin’t No Party Like a Yeti Party
California based artist and dabbler in the deep sea, Lily Simonson had me at “Party of Yeti’s.” In a new exhibit at the Harvard Museum…
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This marine worm is called the Sand Striker
TRIGGER WARNING This article or section, or pages it links to, contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering to survivors. Marine scientists,…
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Alligators in the Abyss
This story starts with my research team currently deploying alligators* (3 total, 2 – 2.5 meters in length) at three different sites 2000 meters deep…
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The Ocean Cleanup struggles to prove it will not harm sea life
I am deeply concerned that a project intending to collect plastic from the ocean’s surface, known as The Ocean Cleanup, will sweep up countless floating…
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