Introducing a New Species: My Namesake, a New Bone-Eating Worm
Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms…
Hat tip to Christina Kellogg.
View More TGIF: Sometimes You Just Gotta DanceImage credit: © 2003 MBARI. Stellamedusa ventana is a recently described species of jelly, the size of softball, from the deep sea. The bumps on…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (10/12/07):What else can you say? More famous people here. More on Captain James Cook here!
View More Lego Captain CookWhen I am diving, I have the tendency to get a little bored. Coral reefs…yeah,yeah…brightly-colored fish…yawn…charismatic invertebrates…ho-hum…sharks, octopods, communing with nature, etc. My dives are…
View More A Little Mood MusicWhale-fall communities are one of the most unique habitats in the deep oceans. When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor, it represents…
View More Puny Whales and The Clams That Love Them…that is if you forget that they are gas-guzzling uber machines spewing carbon dioxide. Aerosols produced by the exhaust from large oceanic vessels often produce…
View More Big Ships, Not So Bad…I was very excited today to see that during my absence we reached the 2007 DSN Education Fundapalooza goal of $1100. We funded 3 classroom…
View More We Did It!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…
View More Reason #111 Not to Pursue A Job In Oceanographic SciencesKorean companies are claiming health benefits to deep-sea water.
View More Korea bottles deep-sea waterToday is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Jason at Cephalopodcast asks us to “embrace your inner octopus and let the world know what we think of our…
View More Attacks of the Kraken