http://blogs.earthsky.org/stevehaddock The Ocean and its Inhabitants Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:28:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In conjunction with her book on the deep sea, Claire Nouvian has organized an exhibit at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. It runs until May 8th 2008. I was fortunate enough to be able to travel to France to help a little with the set-up and witness the ... http://blogs.earthsky.org/stevehaddock/2008/04/11/the-deep-sea-surfaces-in-paris-2/ Fluorescence occurs when a substance absorbs a wavelength of light (often high-energy photons like violet or blue) and immediately re-emits that energy at a longer wavelength (green to red). Turn out the light and the “glow” goes away. Fluorescent materials are all around us, from the chlorophyll in leaves ... http://blogs.earthsky.org/stevehaddock/2007/11/13/glow-in-the-light/ In the past couple of weeks, the sunsets over Monterey Bay, California, were noticeably redder than usual. It was popular to speculate whether this could be due to Southern California fires that were so rampant at the time. It seemed plausible, but they also seemed really far away. (We're ... http://blogs.earthsky.org/stevehaddock/2007/11/01/earth-wind-water-and-fire/ The deep sea makes up more than 99% of the inhabitable volume of the planet. What do people know, think, or feel about it? How can we best study it and communicate our results? With this blog I hope to bring current research on the ocean and deep-sea more into ... http://blogs.earthsky.org/stevehaddock/2007/10/24/perceptions-of-the-deep-sea/