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…
There Is Plenty Oil!
Szabo is right, oil will sustains us for years to come, almost 20 or even 30. That means I can drive my Hummer around until I well into my 50’s. Those are going to be some very sweet times indeed. I can take my three-armed children down to the beach, its surely going to be a warm day, and play in the acidic ocean. And as I am driving home in my wonderfully large SUV, we can enjoy the beautiful sunset because of increased particulates in the air. What a glorious time!
View More There Is Plenty Oil!What A Mess!
What part of no more fish equals no more jobs is difficult to grasp?
View More What A Mess!New Boat Smell
What does 78.1 million U.S. dollars buy you? Presidential election? A month’s supply of prescription medication? Health care? A house in California? Definitely not enough…
View More New Boat SmellJust Science Weekend: They Eat Their Young
When you see frozen fish sticks, think cod; when you eyeball the seafood salad at Subway, think pollock. Deep-sea fishes are all around us, but we know very little about them. For example, did you know cod have a bioluminescent anus? And they cannibalize their young? If not, please, read on.
View More Just Science Weekend: They Eat Their YoungJust Science Weekend: Gadid Fish
Deep-sea cod (family Gadidae) are “one of the most important families of fishes in the deep-sea”. Their deep siblings include pollock and hake. Pollock is what they use to make fake crab legs in the Subway seafood salad. It’s packaged as sarimi, a strange white Asian boloney. Sarimi fishermen catch pollock with bottom trawls off Alaska, and press the meat into a white pressed sausage stained with bright colors in the sliced meat section at the Vietnamese grocery. Check it out sometime.
View More Just Science Weekend: Gadid FishFriday Deep-Sea Picture (2/9/07)
Just Science #5: Sediment Transfer To The Deep
A grain of sand lodged from a decomposing rock in the mountains may spend a long time making its way down a river system, or being swashed around at the coast, but ultimately the deep sea is the final resting place.
View More Just Science #5: Sediment Transfer To The DeepJust Science #4: The Impacts of Big Animals
Are large deep-sea organisms stingy eaters, voracious predators, home wreckers, or construction workers? It might be a bad day to be a small deep-sea animal.
View More Just Science #4: The Impacts of Big AnimalsJust Science #3: Blue Smokers
Researchers at JAMSTEC have recently added another hydrothermal vent type, the blue smoker!
View More Just Science #3: Blue SmokersJust Science #2: Science and Industry Collaboration in Deep-Sea Research
Do Scientist and the Oil Industry Make Strange Bedfellows?
View More Just Science #2: Science and Industry Collaboration in Deep-Sea Research