The ocean is not homogenous. In other words, not all seawater is the same. Instead, it made up of many different water masses, each with…
View More Notes from the field: Mixology of Water MassesMonth: September 2012
Sunday happiness: the Bertness Rock Anthem
Mark Bertness’ salt marsh ecology lab at Brown University has a lengthy academic family tree – and in fact your friendly ocean bloggers Jarrett Byrnes,…
View More Sunday happiness: the Bertness Rock AnthemTGIF – City of Gonads
This Friday comes the news that a new jellyfish has been named “City of gonads”. You can’t make this stuff up, except that somebody just…
View More TGIF – City of GonadsGiant Pacific Octopus!
The largest octopus is the Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini. According to data from a 1987 Masters Thesis from J.A. Cosgrove, the Pacific Giant Ocotopus can…
View More Giant Pacific Octopus!Guest post: The stunning deep-water biodiversity of the Bear Seamount
I’m delighted to present this guest post from Dr. Michelle Staudinger, a post-doc at the University of Missouri Columbia and stationed at the National Climate Change…
View More Guest post: The stunning deep-water biodiversity of the Bear SeamountThe Great Recession of the Deep Oceans
If energy is the currency of life then deep-sea organisms are in a long-term recession. Energy comes in three major forms important for life: solar…
View More The Great Recession of the Deep OceansNotes from the field: Find the currents, deploy the ROBOTS!
We’re excited for another guest post from Kim Martini here at DSN (read previous posts here). Kim is a physical oceanographer working at the University of Alaska,…
View More Notes from the field: Find the currents, deploy the ROBOTS!Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution…
View More Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica