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The Largest Ecosystem on Earth: Deep, Diverse, and Definitely Different
The Census of Marine Life brought together thousands of researchers to “Make Ocean Life Count.” (I’ve written about it here and here.) But this amazing effort was more than just an enumeration of what...
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Clear and Present Danger: Overwhelming Ourselves into Apathy
After covering a AAAS session on science and the media in my blog post last week, I’d planned to focus on another titled “Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems.”...
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday
Subarctic sunflower stars, Prince William Sound in Alaska.Photo: NaGISA - Casey Debenham, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Welcome to the inaugural post of a new feature here at Brave Blue Words:...
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Blooming Spring Comes to the Sea
Spring has sprung. Daffodils are blooming, birds are building nests and my kids are putting away the winter PJs. (I put a stop to that). I know, with colder temperatures threatening much of the...
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
We’re Going Down! Happy Wednesday! For this week’s wonderful, waterful post, we’ll dive to the deepest realms of the ocean to check out the amazing, bizarre, and sometimes downright creepy-looking...
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: the Ways of Whales
Whales are among the largest and most magnificent creatures to ever live on Earth. They are completely adapted to one environment, but wholly dependent upon another for their very life’s breath. This...
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Wonderful Waterful Thursday(?): Life in a Sometimes Ocean
Welcome to Wonderful Waterful Thursday! WWT as I like to call it is the extra special blog post that follows what would otherwise have been Wonderful Waterful Wednesday, if I hadn’t spent an extra five...
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Carnival of the Blue & Round of Words Check-in
Who doesn’t love a carnival? The sights, the excitement, the sounds. This week I’m honored and excited to host The Carnival of the Blue, a monthly round-up of ocean-related posts from around the web....
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Living on the Edge
…all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string...
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Wonderful Waterful Wednesday: Celebrating Selkies and Seals
This week’s Wonderful Waterful Wednesday post goes out to Virginia Kantra, in honor of the release of “Forgotten Sea” the latest in her Children of the Sea romance series. Virginia’s stories feature...
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