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  • Marine science ink

    One of my favorite things about the wonderful Science Online 2012 conference (AKA Burning Man for science journalists) was the field trip to Dog Star Tattoo in Durham.  We were accompanied by science journalist Carl Zimmer, who gave a superb and funny talk on the tattoos of scientists, based on his best-selling lovely book Science Ink. Ten…

  • SeaHarmony

    This film, a parody of eHarmony by Monika LaPlante, was my favorite at the Cyberscreen film festival I atteneded at last weeks Science Online conference in Raleigh. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcyqOh7wsWA&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] Other dating sites are just so species specific!

  • No-one likes a mucky reef

    Joshua Drew from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, picks his top ocean dweller for the “Critter of the Month” in the recent, Christmas episode of the Naked Oceans podcast. Joshua Drew on cleaner wrasse – Naked Oceans

  • Filleting a lionfish

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx3tf71TdfE[/youtube]

  • The story of seahorses – what happened next? (Final part)

    In the third and final installment of my series of posts continuing the story of seahorses following the publication of my book Poseidon’s Steed, there is one more advance in the world of seahorse science I want to mention – followed by the answer to a question I get asked quite a bit: what happened to the…

  • The story of seahorses – what happened next? (Part 2)

    Continuing my series of posts this week that picks up the story of seahorses where my book, Poseidon’s Steed left off, here is an update on the international trade in seahorses:   Illegal seahorse trade rages on A study by Vincent Nijman showed that between 1998-2007, around 16 million seahorses were exported from Southeast Asia (along with millions…

  • Mr 1%

    While SeaMonster isn’t overtly political, given the role of politics in environmental decision making, it woud be foolish as advocates for the ocean not to share a few thoughts on politicians now and then.  We are starting a series evaluating candidates on their record, statements, promises and potential good and harm towards ocean stuff we…

  • The story of seahorses – what happened next? (Part 1) Spoiler alert!

    Writing a book about seahorses gave me a wonderful opportunity to shine some light into the obscure lives of these fascinating little fish. But of course, the thing about books (at least the old fashioned, paper kind) is that they fix events at a certain point in time when in reality the story carries on. In…

  • This is how I feel about Mondays:

    I woke up this morning to find a young elephant seal napping in front of Palmer Station. Yawning excessively, rolling around, drooling… he seemed to perfectly embody my early-Monday sentiments. View more polar posts for SeaMonster here!

  • Discovering the deepest deep sea vents

                        Last week a major ocean discovery hit the science news headlines with details published of the deepest, and quite possibly the hottest undersea volcanic vent on the planet. Named the Beebe Vent field (after the chap who first went down into the deep ocean), and…

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