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My 25 Favorite Things For Ocean Field Work

Dr. M February 5, 2019 2 Comments gear life at sea Scientist!

Next week my research group heads out to sea for our Gulf of Mexico research project on deep-sea wood falls. Make sure to pay attention…

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3-D Printing the Ulitmate Deep-Sea Christmas Tree

Dr. M January 17, 2019 No Comments

Armed with the lab’s trusty Ultimaker 3-D printer, our imaginations, and endless source of inspiration that is deep-sea life and science, my lab and I…

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The Continued Boondoggle of the Ocean Cleanup

Dr. M January 6, 2019 8 Comments boyan slat engineering ocean cleanup Pacific Plastic

boon·dog·gle /ˈbo͞onˌdäɡəl/ noun: work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value. verb: waste money or time on unnecessary…

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How to recover when something goes very, very wrong at sea

Dr. Martini March 11, 2017 CTD rapid rapid expedition rapid uk

No shit, Sherlock. A staggering achievement – fishing for a 2m thing in 5000m water with a 10,000m line … very, very well done. https://t.co/gvKiU23H9B…

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A research cruise as depicted by a high-seas adventure cartoonist? YAAASSSS

Dr. Martini January 27, 2017

It has now come to our attention that EVERY cruise needs a high seas adventure cartoonist. Lucy Bellwood’s comic on her three weeks at sea with the…

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Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Alex Warneke January 6, 2017 JPL STEAM The Orbit Pavilion

“Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can Far above the moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do” -Space…

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Rocky Intertidal v.2.0

Alex Warneke December 28, 2016 #3DCabrillo #ScanningtheSeas 3D printing Science Outreach

Last year, DSN compatriot and Captain of the rag-tag crew over at Southern Fried Science, dropped a science outreach bomb. Dr. A.D. Thaler struck some ecological/technological brilliance in…