One of my favorite places in the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands is the Kapoho Tide Pools. Lava flows from Kilauea often reach the ocean. Rapid…
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Mantas to Reef Fishes: I Drink Your Miltshake
Manta Rays are nature’s spawn vacuums. Aided by new technologies and teams of overworked graduate students and unpaid interns, and prodded by the dismal decline…
View More Mantas to Reef Fishes: I Drink Your MiltshakeTGIF: “Journey to the Deep and Within”, modern Chinese ink paintings of the underwater realm
I was going to give you a post about sea snakes to commemorate Chinese New Year, but I decided they’re just too creepy. Go check…
View More TGIF: “Journey to the Deep and Within”, modern Chinese ink paintings of the underwater realmTGIF – The spectacular fluorescent colours of Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are famous for their beautiful colours, but in fact when I visit them I am usually surprised how colourful reefs AREN’T. Most healthy…
View More TGIF – The spectacular fluorescent colours of Coral ReefsSubmersible at your disposal + unexplored marine habitat = EPIC expedition!!
Although the Deep-sea News team has just spent a whole weekend in exotic North Carolina, we are jealous of Dr. Alistair Dove who currently enroute…
View More Submersible at your disposal + unexplored marine habitat = EPIC expedition!!Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral Reefs
When you’re in the biodiversity conservation biz for any significant length of time, you inevitably develop a thick skin to grim pronouncements of ecosystem collapse…
View More Not Good Enough: Copenhagen Accord May Doom Coral ReefsOil: Not just for autos but coral reefs as well
In part two of unintended series on oil… Unless you live under an oil covered rock you probably already know that a Chinese ship carrying…
View More Oil: Not just for autos but coral reefs as wellThere Is No Marine Biodiversity Crisis…
…because it has already happened. During a conference this summer, I heard Jeremy Jackson give talk. He highlighted the severely degraded state, as measured by…
View More There Is No Marine Biodiversity Crisis…Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species…
View More Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocoralsTwilight Zone… the Expedition
Join me and my colleagues as we embark on the Benthic Assemblages in the Twilight Zone (BATZ) expedition to characterize benthic assemblages in the mesophotic or “twilight zone” (50-200 m) using a deep-diving Phantom II remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico August 25 – September 2nd, 2008.
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