Wait what they WERE studying us this WHOLE TIME 🧪👀

It would be totally wild if the very first experimental deep-sea mining project came within a half marathon of dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef. A reef we wouldn't even know existed for 4 more decades. Anyway, that's exactly what happened.

New on the blog: a dive into inequality in global deep-sea research capacity. Deep Ocean Exploration needs to move beyond Imported Magic - www.southernfriedscience.com/deep-ocean-e...

Blue parrotfish dropping fresh sand like it’s their business. Next time you’re at South Beach, thank a parrotfish 💙😉🦜🐟💩🏖️💙 www.instagram.com/reel/C10fe5Z...

A Bathypterois guentheri tripod fish I made a few years ago for my #SundayFishSketch today. They have modified pelvic and caudal fin rays that enable them to perch, elevated, above the sea floor. Their modified pectoral fins sweep out in front and are used to sense prey. #sciart 🦑

The Asha Devos et al. paper that many of us have been looking forward to: "Towards Equity and Justice in Ocean Sciences" #OpenAccess www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🦑

Wanna see the coolest animal name ever

I finally got around to updating the Oceanography for Everyone website. It's basic, but it gets the job done: oceanographyforeveryone.com I'm pathologically incapable of seeing my own typos, so do your worst.

the pagoda of seigantoji, japan.

A healthy ocean is a just ocean! Happy to share this article just published today in Nature npj Ocean Sustainability. 🌊🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 https://t.co/096wbTVTYT

Just published, comment by Sumaila et al. on "To engage in deep-sea mining or not to engage: what do full net cost analyses tell us?" go.nature.com/3ss5D1g

i'm not done yet! it's been a good squid day 🧪. schmidt ocean got some incredible closeup footage of a planctoteuthis during their ascent! planctoteuthis is a weird one - they're known for having an elaborate secondary "tail" that extends past the main mantle fins.

Reminder: I now have a custom feed running to track skeets about deep-sea mining and the ongoing International Seabed Authority negotiation. Features any skeet with the hashtag #DeepSeaMining as well as a slew of industry related keywords:

2 month growth timelapse (May 1-June 30) of the staghorn corals @rescueareef transplanted to our site in August of last year, along with the Pseudodiploria strigosa brain coral growing after being transplanted from the collapsed Star Island sea wall last summer by NOAA AOML

Happy World Oceans Day 🧪 here have some nudes from my archives

Ok Shwitter is officially gone. Now… where the cool science kids at?

The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ROV is on the seafloor and we are livestreaming. Join us LIVE NOW as we head to one of only two known #deepsea octopus gardens! #octoodyssey https://www.youtube.com/live/rUw77hDGM-w?feature=share