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Jeffrey Marlow

  • Assistant Professor, Biology at Boston University
Boston
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Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University ::: Science Journalist / Communicator ::: Explorer @NatGeo ::: Founder @AdAstraScience
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How to Poison an Ocean

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By Jeffrey Marlow
| Reader Supported News
Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends. In September, 2009, Erik Cordes, a deep-sea biologist, sat in a dark control room aboard the research vessel Ronald H. Brown, which was floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Fourteen hundred metres beneath him, a remotely operated vehicle (R.O.V.) was transmitting live video and data from the Mississippi Canyon lease area, a region just southeast of Louisiana that has long been pursued by oil companies.
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How to Poison an Ocean

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By Jeffrey Marlow
| The New Yorker Verified
In September, 2009, Erik Cordes, a deep-sea biologist, sat in a dark control room aboard the research vessel Ronald H. Brown, which was floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Fourteen hundred metres beneath him, a remotely operated vehicle (R.O.V.) was transmitting live video and data from the Mississippi Canyon lease area, a region just southeast of Louisiana that has long been pursued by oil companies. At first, the video feed showed little more than brown mud pockmarked by burrowing worms and snails.
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The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea

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By Jeffrey Marlow
| Literary Review Verified
The trouble with the deep sea is that it is dark and very far away. This is not the realm of glorious pink coral reefs surrounded by bewitching tropical fish. All of that lives in the light. In the depths – and in this book Jeffrey Marlow, a specialist in deep-sea microbes, goes very deep – things are different. For a start, many of the life forms which reside in the depths are indeed microbes and, in Marlow’s words, ‘all pretty much roundish blobs, even under a microscope’. How deep is deep?
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