Thankful

I smile o'er the wrinkled blue­ Lo! the sea is fair, Smooth as the flow of a maiden's hair; And the welkin's light shines through Into mid-sea caverns of beryl hue, And the little waves laugh and the mermaids sing, And the sea is a beautiful, sinuous thing! --from The Sea Spirit, by Lucy Maud …

Pic o’ the Week: Elphinstone Reef, Red Sea, Egypt

Photo by Alfonso Gonzalezused under Creative Commons license A classic and lovely view of a vibrant coral reef in the Red Sea - to remind us of the dynamic and colorful underwater worlds of the Middle East, and to remind us to support the divers, dive operators and conservationists of the Middle East during these …

The Gulf’s deepwater corals

The New York Times has an excellent article today discussing state of science and research about deepwater corals in the Gulf of Mexico. As we've blogged, the site of the BP oil disaster has been explored and mapped to some degree by NOAA - some of it funded by the Minerals Management Service. During last …