A nice, new video produced by MBARI about Dr. Ken Smith’s research: “The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of…
View More Climate Change and Food Availability in the DeepCategory: Ecology
What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical…
View More What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?Spinach, Popeye, and Fishy Pigeons
Originally, Popeye the Sailor gained strength from rubbing the head of a rare chicken. Not until 1932 and thereafter did Popeye gain superhuman strength and…
View More Spinach, Popeye, and Fishy PigeonsReconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All Life
What is the origin story of deep-sea organisms? For decades, we thought shallow coastal waters were the cradle of marine life repeatedly pumping species into…
View More Reconsidering the Origins of Marine Life and All LifeLSDG: An Acronym Consuming A Field
You may never heard of LSDG (although some of you may have heard of LSD but I make no judgement here) but a lot scientific…
View More LSDG: An Acronym Consuming A FieldDispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA,…
View More Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor Animals
Oil and gas extraction is pervasive among the coasts of the world. In many areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast…
View More ‘Safe’ Water-Based Drill Cuttings Affect Seafloor AnimalsGreat Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic
An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in…
View More Great Abyssal Diversity Among the MicroscopicRepost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane Seeps
This is a repost of KZ’s winning post for Open Laboratory 2009: The Best Science Writing on the Web. Congrats to KZ! ———————————————————————————————————— This is…
View More Repost: Deep-Sea Corals and Methane SeepsBasking Sharks Go Wide and Deep
Basking sharks are heavily exploited from the shark–finning industry. The damage is compounded by the fact we know so little about their distribution in the…
View More Basking Sharks Go Wide and Deep