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…
We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.1
For too long ocean exploration has suffered from chronic underfunding and the lack of an independent agency with a dedicated mission. Here, Al Dove and…
View More We Need an Ocean NASA Now Pt.1Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the Ocean
The Planktos Incident continues. Just when I thought it had died. Russ George, former head of the defunct Planktos, has decided to, despite the scientific…
View More Here We Go Again With Dumping Iron Into the OceanSolved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?
No doubt you have seen the lonely big eye in the sea story by now. A giant eyeball washed ashore on a Florida beach and then…
View More Solved! Where did the Big Eye In The Sea come from?Algal blobs take shape, thanks to bacteria
What if your physical characteristics (hair color, height, or eye color) were determined by your bacterial microbiome? It might seem far fetched for humans, but…
View More Algal blobs take shape, thanks to bacteriaThe world’s most promiscuous snail
On the winner goes the Rough Periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis) from the North Atlantic (both sides of the pond) On average, each clutch of 70 offspring had 19…
View More The world’s most promiscuous snailSea Lion Photo Bomb
And here is an example of plastic entering the marine food web I had not thought of. BTW that’s a California Sea Lion but…
View More Sea Lion Photo BombBending sound, the weird path of sound in the ocean
Sound in the ocean does not behave like sound in the air. This is also what makes sound in the ocean so awesome. Sound in water…
View More Bending sound, the weird path of sound in the oceanThe Mortal Sea
The Mortal Sea, by University of New Hampshire maritime environmental history professor Jeff Bolster, seems to be an interesting book up many of our readers’…
View More The Mortal SeaHow the Gastropod Got Its Twist
All snails and their ancestors, the Gastropods, share a common feature. We people with fancy Ph.D.’s in biology call this a synapomorphy, a word derived…
View More How the Gastropod Got Its TwistTGIF: Some Friday jazz, courtesy of marine microbes
Bringing you some awesome ocean sounds this Friday–nope, not crashing waves or squawking seagulls (boo hiss for vertebrates). These sounds come from MICROBES! Peter Larsen…
View More TGIF: Some Friday jazz, courtesy of marine microbes