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This is the second of a two-part post. In the first installment, Kim presented alternatives to this project. This installment is a collaboration between Kim and Miriam. Dr. Kim Martini is a physical ...

A great bit of writing and journalism at Wired on the avoidable Titan submersible incident. "A trove of tens of thousands of internal OceanGate emails, documents, and photographs provided exclusively ...

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 ...

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 ...

I hate watching jellies suffer, and this is my personal version of Hell: The Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm, Screen shot from this video. These killing machines are called the Jellyfish ...

If this comic makes you laugh, perhaps you should become a marine biologist. Note the lack of dolphins. ARRRRR ME HEARTIES!!!! So ye want t’ be a pirate, t’ sail the open sea searching for booty – ...

On a largely uninhabited island (a cay) in Bahamas, the chief residents are less than a two-dozen feral pigs. The island is now more lovingly referred to as Pig Island. The origins of these island ...

The real Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo by Miriam Goldstein, 2010 EX1006 cruise. I would like to move beyond mythbusting. I give a lot of public talks about my research on plastic trash in the ...

Between 1948 and 1961, barges laden with industrial waste, including high concentrations of once-ubiquitous agricultural insecticide, Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane ...

Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a rainbow of Sharpie colors. Each cup is ...