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Oil Spills Scientist!

Is Science on the Gulf Oil Spill Skewed?

Dr. M August 30, 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico NOAA NSF Oil Spill

Newsweek has a great write up about how independent scientific queries into the Gulf of Mexico are being squashed. Only are few scientists were able…

Expeditions New Research Organisms Seamount

Update on NOAA Expedition in the Indian Ocean

Dr. M July 19, 2010 Barnacle cirri exploration indonesia Kawio Barat NOAA Okeanos Explorer Seamount Sulawesi Volcano

The join Indonesia – U.S. exploration of the deep ocean north of Sulawesi, Indonesia mapped the large undersea volcano Kawio Barat. From base to summet…

Oil Spills

Oil Spill Update July 11, 2010

Dr. M July 11, 2010 BP cleanup corexit Cuba Deepwater Horizon deepwater well Drilling Emergency Relief Well Act Florida Keys Galveston Gulf of Mexico Jindal Lake Pontchartrain NOAA Obama offshore Oil Spill oysters relief well shorebird Shrimp super skimmer Susan Shaw tarball

This one-year projection of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will ruin your day. Oil is now seeping in New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain and tarballs wash ashore in…

Ecology New Research Seamount

Guest Post: The Largest Habitats on Earth

Kevin Zelnio April 20, 2010 biogeography Biome Blue Marble Mountains in the Sea NOAA oceanography Peter Etnoyer Seamount

Peter Etnoyer is a deep sea coral habitat specialist with NOAA’s National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) in Charleston, SC. He returns to Deep…

Environmental Sciences

Mysterious Sounds from the Deep

Kevin Zelnio April 20, 2010 deep sea Hydrophone NOAA PMEL Sound

The NOAA Vents program of the Pacific Marine Environmental lab in Oregon has released some haunting sounds picked up by their underwater autonomous hydrophone array.…

Giant Isopod Pictures and Movies

6-Gill Shark Steals Food from Poor Giant Isopod

Kevin Zelnio December 30, 2009 6-Gill Shark Eye In The Sea Giant Isopod NOAA Ocean Explorer video

Seriously, 6-Gill Shark. Why are you such a douche? That Giant Isopod was totally there first, minding its own business gnawing on some fresh bait…

Coral Organisms Seamount

This is Your Seamounts… On Fishing

Kevin Zelnio October 20, 2009 Atlantic Corner Rise Eric Heupel New England NOAA Seamount

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…

Geology Natural Disaster

Samoan Tsunami Survivor

Kevin Zelnio October 5, 2009 American Samoa earthquake Natural Disaster NOAA Samoa Surfing tsunami

Neil Lumsden was out surfing when out of nowhere the recent earthquake struck the deep sea off of Samoa. We had no warning, being out…

Cephalopods Expeditions Organisms

Architeuthis Caught In Gulf of Mexico

Dr. M September 21, 2009 Architeuthis Giant Squid Gulf of Mexico NOAA Smithsonian

From NOAA… Scientists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service have captured a giant squid while conducting research off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. This…

Conservation & Environment Coral Organisms

Protection For Deep-Water Corals Close

Dr. M September 21, 2009 Coral Crab deep sea Environmental Defense Fund Florida Lophelia NOAA North Carolina reef trawling

From the wire… A vast stretch of deepsea coral reefs in the south Atlantic passed a key step toward full federal protection as a special…