President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 into law yesterday, authorizing sustained funding for ocean exploration, mapping, coastal and ocean…
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Trophy fish, back in the day
What better way to get at the question of recreational fishing impacts to ocean wildlife than to study historical pictures of the day’s catch on…
View More Trophy fish, back in the dayFriday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a Wave
Imagine yourself from the inside of the wave, barreling shoreward, and exploding out into millions of watery pieces. Intense stuff. Clark Little, a surfer from…
View More Friday Deep Sea Picture: Looking Down the Barrel of a WaveTGIF: Polychaete
Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
View More TGIF: PolychaeteClickable maps: Google vs Microsoft
A sense of place. It’s essential to deep-sea exploration. We’re far from land, on a flat horizon, hovering over echosounder output from the seafloor below.…
View More Clickable maps: Google vs MicrosoftThe Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 5
Is over at Southern Fried Science. I thought I was pretty hairy, but man look at the russian bear with the shark! We are moving…
View More The Great Darwin Beard Challenge: Week 5Offshore Luxury Condos
Thousands of offshore oil rigs dot the ocean with nearly 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico ready to be decommissioned. What do we with all…
View More Offshore Luxury CondosOne step closer to stimulus
Sheril Kirshenbaum of the new Intersection blog at Discover alerts us that the House passed HR 146 yesterday, so the big ocean bill is one…
View More One step closer to stimulusDeep-corals are world’s oldest animal
It hasn’t been too long since Brendan Roark first reported that deep-sea corals off Hawaii are clocking in as the world’s oldest animal. At four…
View More Deep-corals are world’s oldest animalSystem to blame in British sub deaths
Oxygen candles and CO2 scrubbers are the lifeline of a submarine dwelling 200 feet under Arctic ice, but faulty units are to blame for the…
View More System to blame in British sub deaths