A Decade of Deep Sea Decadence
Today is legendary! Why, you ask? Well, we are celebrating TEN YEARS of DSN posts. That’s right –...
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Deep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life Ignored
←Previous Lesson: Early Paradigms and Exploration Edward Forbes spent his life championing a hypothesis whose evidence was flawed and...
Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were...
Deep Sea 101: Early Paradigms and Exploration
←Previous Lesson: Lessons from the Census of Marine Life While the Census of Marine Life may be the most...
Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved Barnacles
This post was based on a talk I gave for Darwin Day last year at the Duke Marine Lab....
From the Editor’s Desk: Communicating At, To Or With People?
We seem to be constantly evaluating how well are doing communicating science, as well we should! Good scientists need...
Deep Sea 101: Lessons from the Census of Marine Life
←Previous lesson: Introduction and What Is the Deep Sea? Last week we kicked off our online class with an...
Deep Sea 101: Introduction and What Is the Deep Sea?
This semester I am teaching a full on lecture course in Deep Sea Biology at my institution. It is...
From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries
Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists...
Barnacle Evolution I: Phylogeny Served Without Plates
Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of...