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‘I’d like to be under the sea/ in an octopus’s garden, in the shade….” so begins the beatles song.
I had this song stuck in my head during my dives. I must say, we didn’t get to enter the abode of the octopus, but we did get to catch a glimpse of a Giant Pacific Octopus [...]

I will not try to hide the fact… I am a PICKY picky eater. I refuse to eat many many things, and I hate seafood. I prefer looking at sea creatures and studying them, not eating them.
I admit it though, I got sucked into trying oysters for the first time in my life after [...]

I admit it. I am a facebook frequenter.
Therefore, I manage to catch some of their ads once in a while. Most of them I ignore, but this was an advertisement for a shirt that said “YAY, Serotonin!”
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What a wonderful geeky shirt. I had to click on the advertisement. The words [...]

One of the sea creatures we saw the most of were sea stars. I found most interesting the Sunflower sea star, or Pycnopodia helianthoides. Perhaps this isn’t the legendary Pisaster, but the Sunflower sea star is the largest sea star I have ever seen.

Although biojournalism still does not have an official definition, it is generally a specific aspect of science writing. The term may be new, but the concept is not. I started generating my idea of biojournalism a while ago, although the term had not even been coined.
I was an intern at the Oregon Zoo Media Relations [...]

The first podcast of the biojournalism.com blog is here — hopefully this is a weekly occurrence, although I have to say that it was a bit of work to put together. Thanks go out to Kurt Mehlenbacher — my roommate — for the very-few-holds-barred use of his music. I’d point you in the direction of [...]

I thought it would be interesting to post this photo taken during my geology field trip last quarter. The pelican’s wing was shattered, so it was caught and taken to a rehabilitation center. I’ve always wondered what happened to the Pelican.
This bird may surive longer now.
This encounter took place near Florence, Oregon.

As I pack to get ready for my Scuba certification dives this weekend, I cannot help but reflect on the amount of science that goes into scuba diving. In fact, without science, a lot more divers would be seriously injured.
So here is a reflection on various aspects of science in Scuba….
Excited for Scuba! Photo [...]