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…
Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly
It’s no secret that we here at Deep Sea News are huge nerds. I can hear the outraged cries through my computer screen – “No,…
View More Shiny! Top 10 reasons why seafarers love Joss Whedon’s Firefly“Small Victories Win Big Wars”
The post title was exclaimed by French oceanographer Philippe Cury upon hearing the news that a tiny non-profit organization won a major battle with a…
View More “Small Victories Win Big Wars”How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline
Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of…
View More How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastlineEncomium: Lonesome George
I just read that Lonesome George, the presumed sole-remaining member of the Pinta Island giant tortoise species of the Galápagos, has died. Lonesome George was…
View More Encomium: Lonesome GeorgeA Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San Francisco
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View More A Scientific Feast of Ocean Microbiology – notes from the #asm2012 conference in San FranciscoMust-watch video on rip currents
If you’re going to the beach this summer, please watch this video on recognizing and avoiding rip currents. It’s a critical practical guide AND a…
View More Must-watch video on rip currentsHooper Drives The Boat, Chief
Picture this: Cape Cod, June 20, 1975. Gerald Ford is President, gas is .53 cents a gallon, and a carefree, 11 year-old–yet already ocean-nerd, future…
View More Hooper Drives The Boat, ChiefDear Deeplings: I thought I was a plant, but now I think I’m a killer!
Dear Deeplings, I am a dinoflagellate – a single-celled microscopic plankton of the fine lineage Karlodinium armiger. I’m a pretty peaceful dude-lady – I just chillax…
View More Dear Deeplings: I thought I was a plant, but now I think I’m a killer!Preserved in the Act and Fossilized Turtle Whoopie
This is really too good not to share immediately. A recent study reports on numerous pairs of fossil turtle couples caught in the act of copulation. The…
View More Preserved in the Act and Fossilized Turtle WhoopieI Am Science with the First Man to Dive Challenger Deep
I asked, “What were the events that lead to you to dive the Marianas Trench?” Don Walsh one of two men to first visit the…
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