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Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems

Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep.  All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind attitude and 2) ignorance about...

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Deep Sea mud as precious as diamonds?

Interesting news coming out of Nature Geosciences this weekend.  Kato et al (2011) are reporting a veritable treasure trove buried in deep-sea Pacific sediments:  rare-earth elements.  Elements such as...

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Scientist in Residence: Beth Orcutt –“There is More to the Marine Subsurface...

Beth is an U.S. postdoc scientist at the Center for Geomicrobiology in Denmark studying tiny microbes that live at the bottom of the ocean and their role in global processes. You can check out her...

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Marine Fungi are Totally Badass

That’s right, you heard me—there are mushrooms that live in the sea. OK, well technically a mushroom is a fruiting body of a fungus with a cap, stem and gills, but lets take some dramatic liberties and...

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CSI Deep Sea: Genomic Edition

This case is short but sweet. The fossil record is what we scientists have always used to reconstruct past conditions in the ocean. Like any good investigator, we want to know who was there and what...

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The weird sizes and exotic shapes of nematode worms

FACT: We study evolution in nematodes by constructing trees out of their penis size. Phylogeny of male spicules in the genus Caenorhabditis (Kiontke et al. 2011) Ok, well a “penis” in male nematodes is...

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