Andrew David Thaler
SouthernFriedScience
Gloucester Point, VA, United States
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A decade of failures in Science Communication.
Eleven years is a long life for a science blog. Southern Fried Science was born in 2008, when the main writers were all graduate students. Over the last decade the online landscape has changed. Sci… → Read More
Probing the submerged caves of Bermuda with Trident
Dr. Blanco-Bercial pilots the Trident ROV in one of Bermuda’s submerged caves. Conservation research in submarine caves is among the clearest and most compelling use-cases for a small observa… → Read More
We want to give you an ROV!
What will you explore? If you have access to a small, observation-class remotely operated vehicle to explore the ocean, where would you go? Would you use it to discover something new about marine e… → Read More
Vanishing Islands, nuclear leaks, oceans of plastic, and one feisty Beluga. Weekly Salvage: November 18, 2019
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Space whales. Space. Whales. SPAAAAACE WHAAAAALES! Weekly Salvage: October 21, 2019
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Dead whales, glass sponges, 3D-printing for the ocean, and more! Weekly Salvage: October 14, 2019
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The Ocean Cleanup has an ocean of problems, whales, KISS, and more! Weekly Salvage: October 7, 2019
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Walrus Attacks, Windships, Wild Oysters, and More! Weekly Salvage: September 30, 2019
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“The internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes are mostly underwater” – Weekly Salvage: September 23, 2019
Transcript provided below. Are we finally going to lead with deep-sea mining? We’re going to lead with deep-sea mining. Welcome to the Weekly Salvage. → Read More
#Sharpiegate, mining the deep sea, electric eels, oil, and more! Weekly Salvage: September 16, 2019
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The Quest for the best tough 3D Printer for under $200: Our final recommendations
You thought we were done, here. You were wrong. After extensively reviewing 5 3D printers for sale under $200 and picking the best from the reviews, we went back to our two favorites and put them t… → Read More
With no Blue Book for program guidance, Congress will hold it’s first hearing on Defunding NOAA, today.
At 10:15 AM, the House Appropriations Committee will meet to discuss The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2020, an aggressively uninspired document that fundamentally dismantles America’s premier ocean and climate research agency and will cause immeasurable destruction to out coastal communities and economies. → Read More
Commerce Unveils a Budget to Decimate NOAA
Late yesterday afternoon, the Department of Commerce unveiled its long awaited budget proposal. Designed in large part to free up funding for President Trump’s ill-conceived, wasteful, and wi… → Read More
Trump’s 2020 Budget will be a Disaster for America’s Coastal Economies
Yesterday the Trump Administration unveiled its proposed budget for fiscal year 2020. This budget contains steep cuts research, education, and social services in order to fund the construction of t… → Read More
The search for an inexpensive, field-ready 3D printer continues: Anet A6 (review)
One of the reasons 3D printing exploded seemingly overnight a decade ago has a lot to do with the RepRap project, an initiative to build a fully open-source and largely 3D-printable 3D-printer. The… → Read More
The Search for an inexpensive, field-ready 3D Printer: Monoprice Mini Delta (review)
Monoprice is an interesting organization. They’re a rebadging company that seeks out unbranded or off-brand products, makes a few tweaks, and then sells them to secondary markets under their … → Read More
The next generation open-source, 3D-printable Niskin bottle has arrived!
The Niskin bottle, a seemingly simple device designed to take water samples at discrete depths, is one of the most important tools of oceanography. These precision instruments allow us to bring oce… → Read More
Mud volcanoes, the stinkiest fruit, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: February 4, 2019.
Foghorn (A Call to Action!) Scientists demand military sonar ban to end mass whale strandings. Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now) Mud volcanoes, the baby cousins for hydrothermal vents an… → Read More
All the slime that sticks, we print: 2018 in Hagfish Research
Hagfish. You love them. I love them. Of all the fish in all the seas, none are more magnificent than the hagfish. Across the world, children celebrate the hagfish by making slime from Elmer’s… → Read More
Get into the spirit of Adventure: 10 Expeditions to follow in 2019
The Aquarius Project: The First Student-Driven Underwater Meteorite Hunt Pirates! Robots! Meteors! A team of plucky teenage explorers! If this doesn’t end up as a feature film, I’ll eat… → Read More