Guest post by William Gearty (Ph.D. Student at Stanford University) It’s summertime and you’re sweating from the heat and humidity. You jump in the pool…
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New Video of Giant Squid Surfaces
Video of a very large squid swimming near a dock made the rounds last week across many social media streams. The squid is actually an Architeuthis, aka the…
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A Story of Climate Change Told In 15 Graphs
Recently, on Twitter and Facebook I noticed graphs of climate change and its impacts being posted. These were often unaccompanied with data sources or links. A…
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We don't know the ocean
This is not the ocean: This is not the ocean: Indeed, even THIS is not the ocean: Before you start thinking that the folks at…
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3 Reasons Why You Should Invite a Greenland Shark to Thanksgiving Dinner
This is a guest post from Sizing Ocean Giants team member Leo Gaskins 1) Not the best cook? No worries, Greenland sharks won’t complain! Forgot…
View More 3 Reasons Why You Should Invite a Greenland Shark to Thanksgiving DinnerCapitalizing on recessions with economic booms of data
This might come as a shocker: I don’t care about metabolism (or bits of floating plastic, or whale sharks, or coral reefs…sorry Deeplings). Its not…
View More Capitalizing on recessions with economic booms of dataCaribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever
And to end you day on a uber-depressing note, sure to give you at least some nightmares Scientists studying Caribbean reefs say that 2010 may…
View More Caribbean Coral Die-Off Could Be Worst Ever12-month running mean global temperature reached new high…
…in 2010 despite recent minimum of solar iridescence. “We conclude that global temperature continued to rise rapidly in the past decade” and “there has been no…
View More 12-month running mean global temperature reached new high…Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive
At this year’s National Association for Biology Teachers conference, Steve Haddock from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, spoke on deep ocean habitats. The National…
View More Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile SurviveThe Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the…
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