To any one who, for the first time, sees a great stretch of sandy shore covered with innumerable ridges and furrows, as if combed with…
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Two California fishermen pretend they are maritime pirates and hold an oceanographic mooring for ransom
First, let’s give a shoutout to these two dudes who found a washed up mooring and, like adults, gave it back to MBARI. Now I…
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ROV gets caught in turbidity current, lives to tell the tale.
Imagine you are yodeling whilst snowshoeing in a majestic mountain range. All of a sudden you hear a rumble. You look up to see a white…
View More ROV gets caught in turbidity current, lives to tell the tale.Ocean Warming Melts Methane Hydrates Which Screws Us All
That’s pretty much the message of new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Large deposits of methane hydrates, i.e. methane ice, occur naturally in the seafloor…
View More Ocean Warming Melts Methane Hydrates Which Screws Us AllWhen the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibs
I am very excited today! My new paper in the journal Ecology will be coming out in April on the regulation of biodiversity in the…
View More When the dinner bell rings for seafloor scavengers, larger animals get first dibsDispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor Animals
Oil and gas extraction is pervasive among the coasts of the world. In many areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast…
View More ‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor AnimalsDispatches from Antarctica – Coring Sludge
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Coring SludgeDispatches from Antarctica – Opportunistic Sampling
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Opportunistic Sampling(Sieve) Size Matters
Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these…
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