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This guest post is brought to you by Sheanna Steingass. Shea is a graduate student at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute studying the behavioral ecology of pinnipeds. She is also author ...

Treehugger recently posted 10 Reasons Why Dolphins Are Undeniably Awesome. This is all nice and well but this does overlook some key aspects of dolphins that should be recognized. Good luck trying to ...

The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein, 2010 EX1006 cruise. O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of ...

A comment on Reddit reminded me of a question that I have received many times. The question is always a good one because it stems from knowledge and deductive reasoning. The said question requires one ...

In the past, a few readers, interns, random undergraduates, and a curious public have asked all three of us here at DSN “How do you become a deep-sea biologist?” I write this from the perspective of ...

I spent a summer as an undergraduate in Port Fourchon, Louisiana conducting field work. Some of my fondest memories surround that summer I spent in 130% humidity and 130˚ heat. Like many others, I've ...

2008 Presidential County Election Results. Map from New York Times. Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a ...

I hate watching jellies suffer, and this is my personal version of Hell: These killing machines are called the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm, or JEROS, and they're trouble. The fact that they're ...

Reminds me of one of my favorite Tom Waits lyrics… “Ahe shroud-tailor measures him for a deep-six holiday. The stiff is froze, the case is closed on the one that got away.” (“The One That Got Away” ...

Map from Swordpress detailing depths and locations of oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico Locations are provided. If you are handy with GIS and so inclined a map can be quickly constructed. I was ...

Bathynomus giganteus (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae) You know those cute little roly-poly bugs you found under rocks as a kid? You poke at them and they curl up into a little ball? Well, ...