A nice 9 minute interview of Bob Ballard on a recent 60 minutes. (click on link if player below does not work) Watch CBS News…
View More Ocean Explorer Bob Ballard on 60 MinutesCategory: Habitats
Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner
A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, “Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely…
View More Wood, It’s What’s For DinnerCataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on…
View More Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea FloorDead Whales…The People Who Study Them and The Worms That Eat Them
A nice write up this month in the Audobon Magazine by Amanda Mascarelli discussing whale-falls and Osedax worms. You can read it for free online.
View More Dead Whales…The People Who Study Them and The Worms That Eat ThemNew Species Friday 10/30/09 – Ophryotrocha fabriae
Say hello to my little fried… In fact, this guy is so small you might have missed if you didn’t use the right sieve mesh…
View More New Species Friday 10/30/09 – Ophryotrocha fabriaeChopping Up Whales For Science!
I am standing in the back of a large lorry, my feet submerged in a pool of blood, water and oil. The truck’s container is…
View More Chopping Up Whales For Science!This is Your Seamounts… On Fishing
And it only gets worse if our nation’s children, those that will grow up to be future policy-makers and voters when we are all in…
View More This is Your Seamounts… On FishingExpedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman Rise
[mappress] Follow a new expedition to discover, document and dive on the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center. The R/V Cape Hatteras left port here at Duke Marine…
View More Expedition to Find “Oases of Life” on Mid-Cayman RiseBiogeography of the Deep Sea
“There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago…
View More Biogeography of the Deep SeaVideo Feed Live From 30 Meters
It has been a long year waiting to announce this. Last year Dr. Adrian Glover, long time DSN fan from the Natural History Museum in…
View More Video Feed Live From 30 Meters