When I crowd funded part of my wood fall research, Immy Smith reached out to me about painting some of the life that occurs on these…
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Month: May 2014
On How I Came to Meet Polar Bear Pete
“ ‘Help!’ cried a bear, ‘I come with bad news!’ ‘Come with me quick, there’s no time to lose!’ The people sailed by and left…
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The ocean and its creatures as art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City just announced that it making more than 400,000 digital images of public domain art available on its website free…
View More The ocean and its creatures as artThe sea is full of life, but not quite that full
A couple weeks ago this photo was going viral with the headline “A Single Drop of Seawater, Magnified 25 Times”: This was one of this…
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How to shrink a styrofoam cup and other side effects of deep ocean pressure
Too much pressure can be a good thing. Extreme pressure in the earth’s mantle squeezing carbon together creates diamonds and aids Rihanna’s ability to shine…
View More How to shrink a styrofoam cup and other side effects of deep ocean pressureThe scariest inhabitant of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is not what you think
When you think of terrifying monsters that might inhabit the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, what do you think of? Mutant sharks? Pissed-off squid? Rabid barnacles? (Well,…
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Dead Elasmobranchs on the Seafloor are Not as Appetizing as One Might Assume
Most fauna in the deep-sea rely upon a drizzle of particles of decaying animals and feces. This marine snow is of low food quality as…
View More Dead Elasmobranchs on the Seafloor are Not as Appetizing as One Might AssumeNereus confirmed lost
In 2009, Nereus was the new $5 million hybrid-transformer-multipurpose-all knowing-swiss army knife of deep-sea research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Nereus, primarily funded by NSF (…
View More Nereus confirmed lostWhat is the world's largest barrel sponge?
It is probably this 2.5 meter (8.2 feet) diameter giant that was a tourist attraction for scuba divers visiting Curaçao in the Caribbean in the…
View More What is the world's largest barrel sponge?Anemone consumes a baby seabird
One afternoon, my coworker Lisa Guy and I are looking through her photo archive, when I spy something that looks like an purple butterball turkey…
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