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…
Tomorrow, I will be blogging from sunny Monterey Bay. Actually, I will be blogging from foggy Monterey Bay but it will still be outrageous. You…
View More I'm Blogging At Sea Baby!Yesterday in Part I, I noted that a Spanish newspaper published a picture allegedly from a port employee showing a coin with a bust of…
View More Who Owns The Black Swan? Pt IILast week I reported on the potential $500 million dollar haul of coins pulled by Odyssey Marine Exploration of a wreck referred to the “Black…
View More Who Owns The Black Swan?Kathleen Hardy from the Darling Marine Center will be blogging from sea aboard the R/V Thompson. The month long cruise will take place in the…
View More At Sea Blogging in the North PacificThere’s a whole new revenue stream on the horizon. Livescience reports that Japanese scientists in the AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), project have learned…
View More Friday Picture (05/25/07)You may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
View More Cheerios & AlvinYou may be asking yourself how these two fit together. I would like to say something like “every box of Cheerios contains a model Alvin…
View More Cheerios & AlvinWood’s Hole researchers in the Eddies Dynamics, Mixing, Export, and Species composition (EDDIES) project confirmed that ocean productivity is enhanced by upwelling eddies in the…
View More Oasis in the Sargasso SeaFor some reason the work of Deanna Molinaro just speaks to me. I wonder what it could be?
View More Octopus Boozing On the SeafloorAnd a virgin shall be with pup, and shall bring forth a hammerhead, and they shall call his name Elasmobranch which being interpreted is, to…
View More A Virgin Shall Be With Pup