You know when you have too much time on a Sunday. (Or you actually don’t, but you spend too much time on something absolutely unproductive…but…
View More My Other Ride is the BelafonteCategory: New Research
These are a few of my favorite species: Paulasterias mcclaini “McClain’s 6-armed fleshy star”
Today is a very exciting day. Indeed, today is one of the best days ever! The next step in my evil science plans for total…
View More These are a few of my favorite species: Paulasterias mcclaini “McClain’s 6-armed fleshy star”Video: Rare sperm whale encounter with deep-sea ROV
“if you’re watching on channel one the super sampler is…THE HECK IS THAT?!” And that is the start of an absolutely breathtaking real life close encounter…
View More Video: Rare sperm whale encounter with deep-sea ROVThe Plankton Chronicles
WARNING: Scrolling down might result in relinquishing a good portion of your Monday watching videos of squishy, wonderful plankton. If this is the kind of procrastination…
View More The Plankton ChroniclesThe Animals of the Musashi Battleship
On November 1st, 1940 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched the Yamato Class Battleship the Musashi. She and her sister ship, Yamato, were the heaviest and most powerfully…
View More The Animals of the Musashi BattleshipWhy the Foldscope is My New Favorite Toy
This past year Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.” From simply…
View More Why the Foldscope is My New Favorite ToyThe complex wrath of the Ozone hole over Antarctica
Through its influence on atmospheric circulation, [the ozone hole] has helped to shield the Antarctic continent from much of the effect of global warming over…
View More The complex wrath of the Ozone hole over AntarcticaPutting snails in the microwave…for science!
Yahoo answers tells me I shouldn’t put snails in the microwave, but this paper tells me otherwise: Galindo LA, Puillandre N, Strong EE, Bouchet P…
View More Putting snails in the microwave…for science!The Antarctic is a rough neighbourhood
There’s a fascinating article getting some press this week, all about a growing incidence of an extraordinary bit of animal behaviour in the islands just…
View More The Antarctic is a rough neighbourhoodShark Feeding, Managed Risk, and the Tredwellian Paradigm
Ocean conservation work takes me to many an unusual locale, but none stranger than tomorrow’s destination: Las Vegas. I’m headed there to attend the annual…
View More Shark Feeding, Managed Risk, and the Tredwellian Paradigm