Oceanography

I don’t think I’d like to swim here

January 20th, 2009  |  Published in Biology, Oceanography, Videos

Viruses in seawater (Zimmer)

October 12th, 2007  |  Published in Biology, Oceanography, Quotes, Science

There are 10 billion viruses in every quart of seawater.

–Carl Zimmer, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, p. 213

Seabed maps (Bryson)

March 14th, 2007  |  Published in Astronomy, Oceanography, Quotes, Science

We have better maps of Mars than we do of our own seabeds.

–Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003), 245