On June 20th I received an email: a huge pink blob has been found off the coast of Cuba, and no one can figure out…
View More Human-sized mystery blob found off the coast of CubaTag: Atlantic
The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutes
From NOAA Visualizations on YouTube: The 2011 Atlantic hurricane season officially ends on Nov. 30 and produced a total of 19 tropical storms of which…
View More The 2011 Hurricane Season in 4.5 minutesThe Indian Ocean’s cup runeth over
I’ve been in Brazil for the past week for some research coordination meetings. This has involved a number of different folks in several forums, but…
View More The Indian Ocean’s cup runeth overBook Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy Point
If I ever write a popular environmental book, I am going to call it “I Hate Thoreau’s Bastard Children: Why Modern Environmental Writing Sucks.” The…
View More Book Review: Carl Safina’s The View from Lazy PointScientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used…
View More Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’New Deep-Sea Research Centre
…or Center depending on where you live. Although in the US we feel the need to discard oceanography Portugal is a little more forward thinking.…
View More New Deep-Sea Research CentreFirst Atlantic Cross by a Submersible Robot
She was at sea for 221 days. She was alone, often in dangerous places, and usually out of touch. Her predecessor had disappeared on a…
View More First Atlantic Cross by a Submersible RobotThis is Your Seamounts… On Fishing
And it only gets worse if our nation’s children, those that will grow up to be future policy-makers and voters when we are all in…
View More This is Your Seamounts… On FishingAir France 447
[googlemap lat=”2.5479878714713706″ lng=”-32.87109375″ width=”500px” height=”500px” zoom=”4″ type=”G_SATELLITE_MAP”]2.547988,-32.871094[/googlemap]Normally, I wouldn’t discuss an airline disaster here and before I go on let me say my heart goes…
View More Air France 447UK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research Program
Way to go brits! The BBC reports: “The UK government has launched an £11m ($16m) five-year research programme into ocean acidification… The study will focus…
View More UK Launches Bold Ocean Acidification Research Program