The New York Times has a great article out this week, as we near the year anniversary of the Macondo Well blowout and the ensuing…
View More Deepwater Horizon: Science progresses, a year laterMonth: April 2011
A Southerner Relays Tales of Ship Wrecks and Worms
Dear Readers, In the summer of ‘06 I, a Southern gentleman in my finest white linen suit*, find myself in the lower portion of England. …
View More A Southerner Relays Tales of Ship Wrecks and Worms“I can haz capstan ride?” Cats at sea!
The US Naval Institute has a photo gallery of cats and the sailors that dote on them. I am utterly undone by seagoing kitties with…
View More “I can haz capstan ride?” Cats at sea!Japan Tsunami Debris Sloshing Around The Pacific
After being pulled away from my online life for quite a while, I regret that my first post back is not happy news. With apologies…
View More Japan Tsunami Debris Sloshing Around The PacificPlastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beach
I have a new post up at the SEAPLEX blog (where I put all my marine debris stuff). A couple weeks ago I was lucky…
View More Plastic pollution on Hawaii’s famed green sand beachJackson Browne Would Be on the Ocean
Of Jackson Browne is one of my musical heroes. And it goes to show that great songwriting goes hand in hand with a love and…
View More Jackson Browne Would Be on the OceanCold hard data vs warm baby dolphins
There’s a lot of press happening right now about an “unusual mortality event” underway in the northern Gulf of Mexico involving dead dolphins, particularly young…
View More Cold hard data vs warm baby dolphinsFish-driven robot!
Via Aili C-F, who asks “What happens when the dolphins discover this technology and then the dolphin robots attack???” Well, it might look something like…
View More Fish-driven robot!For my grandmother, who was born at the wrong time
My grandmother, Edith Goldstein (“Nana”), passed peacefully away in her sleep on Tuesday night at the age of 99. She was known for her intelligence…
View More For my grandmother, who was born at the wrong timeDear Sir Richard Branson
Dear Sir Richard Branson, I don’t know if you read DSN. Probably not. That’s fine. I realize you are probably busy making making money.If you…
View More Dear Sir Richard Branson