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…
Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used Words
There is not much to add to the whole story on disposable penises after Ed Yong wrote about it. So being a big fan of…
View More Disposable Penises in Ten Hundred Most Used WordsFlip Ship Photoshop Battle
FLIP, the Floating Instrument Platform, is towed to an area in a horizontal position and through changing the ballast flipped into a vertical position. In…
View More Flip Ship Photoshop BattleA murder of crows and a stipple of whale sharks?
(A Crow Left of the Murder is a particularly excellent Incubus album, btw) One of the recent papers out of my group describes an unprecedented…
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Observing the Cryosphere from the Troposphere: NASA’s P-3B Airborne Laboratory
Some people might think I am crazy for waking up at 4:45 AM on a Sunday morning to tour a plane, but you would too…
View More Observing the Cryosphere from the Troposphere: NASA’s P-3B Airborne LaboratoryEndemic Genomes? Reason #1 to sequence the Deep Sea
Something to think about: the recent Gibbons et al. (2013) PNAS paper found that *one* site in the English Channel showed a 31.7-66.2% overlap in…
View More Endemic Genomes? Reason #1 to sequence the Deep SeaLoud Noise Makes Crabs Even More Crabby
Growing up in Arkansas, in the epicenter of Tornado Alley, a sound has coded on my psyche. When I hear this sound my breathing accelerates,…
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NOW That’s What I Call Music! DSN Edition
Put your tentacles up and raise the sea level. It’s finally here! Compiling the Ocean’s Saltiest Hits, NOW That’s What I Call Music! DSN EDITION brings…
View More NOW That’s What I Call Music! DSN EditionClimate Change and Hurricanes, Good for Squid?
NOTE PLEASE READ UPDATES AT END OF POST Several news agencies are reporting today about an interesting phenomenon occurring in the Mississippi River. The Memphis Flyer reports……
View More Climate Change and Hurricanes, Good for Squid?Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!
Be worried – us marine scientists are officially taking over the internet. I’m super excited to announce the launch of Deep Sea News on Pinterest. We’re…
View More Announcing the DSN Pinterest empire!SNAIL!
Sure this is a terrestrial snail and this is a marine blog. But c’mon I’m a malacologist and snails and dubstep are a natural pairing
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