A recent study linking deep-sea biodiversity to ecosystem processes recognized that 1) the deep-sea supports the largest biomass of living things on the planet and…
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Ocean Front Property in Arizona
A new study in Nature: Geoscience suggests that current estimates of sea-level rise in response to global warming are too low. Rohling et al. utilize…
View More Ocean Front Property in ArizonaA Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!
The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die…very hard times indeed. A…
View More A Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!We Are Going to Need Some More Money
Perhaps as no shock, oceanography is going to need some more money, about $2-3 billion to be exact. A group of international scientist called the…
View More We Are Going to Need Some More MoneyThe Largest Arthropod Ever!
Caption below under next figure: Image from “Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod” (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend…
View More The Largest Arthropod Ever!Real Time Dissertation
We at DSN try to report on the research as it happens. Now we report on research before it happens! DSN’s old whipping boy Kevin…
View More Real Time DissertationThe Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea Fish
New cool research from Wagner et al. that despite the lack of “day” and “night”, deep-sea fish experience daily cycles. What is the trigger? Diurnal…
View More The Daily Going Ons Of Deep-Sea FishNew Expeditions With Pictures
Two major expeditions took place in the last few months. The first explored Celebes Sea south of the Philippines from the surface to a depth…
View More New Expeditions With PicturesLego Captain Cook
What else can you say? More famous people here. More on Captain James Cook here!
View More Lego Captain CookReason #111 Not to Pursue A Job In Oceanographic Sciences
Maybe another reason for scientist to carry Glocks in the field. A boat carrying six scientists from Waltair-Vishkhapatnam-based regional centre attached to Goa-based National Institute…
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