Month: August 2012
one small step…
This week marked our loss of the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. It goes without saying that a fitting tribute is due. James Clash offers a fitting tribute here on Bloomberg. While I never had an opportunity to meet Armstrong, his influences on manned exploration more broadly, and my own work, runs deep.…
Read Morean in between era using in between technology
I recently returned from the field, working in a remote stretch of the Exumas, Bahamas – where I consider my home away from home. The objective? Deploy an experimental undersea habitat that, if successful, would provide for unsurpassed wet diving access to the lower limits of mesophotic coral ecosystems. As it happens, the deployment went off…
Read Moreshedding some light on a ‘lost continent’
The age old question that is at the fundamental drive of almost every scientific and intellectual pursuit – our origins. Within that lies the puzzling question as to where our civilization began, and further, were there civilizations in the deeper past that have long since vanished? Atlantis. Deeply intriguing, and theory after theory remain just…
Read Morecontrolling the invasion | some lionfish news for you
The invasive lionfish – a huge threat to tropical Atlantic and Caribbean reefs. I was in the Bahamas back in 2005 when one of the first two juveniles was captured in the country. Today, they are everywhere, putting predatory pressures on small herbivorous reef fishes that keep the algae under control on coral reefs. In…
Read Morelife on Mars? does it matter?
NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ is slated to land on the Red Planet on August 6th. From the perspective of an explorer/innovator, this is indeed fascinating, and a true demonstrative step towards a future capacity to send a manned ship or probe. From a public pragmatist perspective, the question of justifying funds for this mission during our current…
Read More
Recent Comments