n 1998, President Clinton enacted Executive Order 13101 for government agencies to reduce waste, recycle and use environmentally friendly and sustainable products including bio-products. Fast forward to 2007 and NOAA has heeded the call to reduce its environmental footprint by replacing petroleum-based fuels and lubricants with bio-based ones
View More NOAA Great Lakes Ships Move To Be A Little “Greener”Category: Gadgets & Gear
You Missed Your Chance to Buy an Oceanographic Institute
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) will be switching hands. HBOI was found by Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, in the mid…
View More You Missed Your Chance to Buy an Oceanographic InstituteFriday Deep-Sea Picture (06/01/07)
Schematic diagram of the DSV Alvin from the Ocean Explorer (NOAA) website.
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (06/01/07)Cheerios & Alvin
You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
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You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
View More Cheerios & AlvinDEPTHX to Europa by 2019
At the beginning of March, DSN reported on DEPTHX. The picture is of DEPTHX. It weighs about 1.2 tons, shaped like a mushroom, and can…
View More DEPTHX to Europa by 2019On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…
For the ultra rich in the next decade the Waldorf-Astoria is probably going to be a bit passe. “My pomeranians and I had spent every…
View More On This Episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous…Keeping Ties on Jenny
Kick ’em Jenny is a 1300m submerged volcano residing about 8km off the Grenada coast and the only live submarine volcano in the West Indies. …
View More Keeping Ties on Jenny3000 Dives, 3000 Hits, and S.J. Gould
In The Flamingo’s Smile, a compilation of Gould’s articles for Natural History, there is a lengthy discussion of the principle of decreasing variation within established…
View More 3000 Dives, 3000 Hits, and S.J. GouldGenesis May Actually Mean the End
Rick Macpherson over at the unusually named Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets has an excellent post on why you should think twice about stepping…
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