This paper continues to be a social media giant. My coauthors and I cracked the Top 100 Altmetric scores for 2015. Sizing Ocean Giants with a current score of 954 is ranked 72 in the list. I could not be happier about this and true testament to hard work of my Read more…
My 70 page, 40 figure, 200+ reference tome on body of all the largest marine megafauna is out. McClain, C.R., M.A. Balk, M.C. Benfield, T.A. Branch, C. Chen, J. Cosgrove, A. Dove, L.C. Gaskins, R.R. Helm, F.G.E. Hochberg,, F.B. Lee, S.E. McMurray, C. Schanche, S.N. Stone, and A.D. Thaler (2015) Read more…
Craig McClain, Deep Sea News blogger and marine biologist, asked his students to collect size data on ocean giants and tweet at the same time. Here’s why… McClain, a Duke University professor and founder of the blog Deep Sea News, designed a class this past fall that asked his undergraduate students to Read more…
Lessons From Creating an Online Outreach Empire from Craig McClain I delivered a preliminary talk on the opening night of ScienceOnline Oceans. I am extremely flattered by the invitation and the enthusiastic reception to my talk. Many asked me to post my slides online but I felt I needed to go a Read more…
My new article about a few of my favorite things–the south, evolution, heat, and of course roaches–is now up at Scientific American The sticky Southern summer heat makes me slightly insane. It’s an agitation that grows deep within me as the season ripens, and the humidity and temperature rise in Read more…
In June, I wrote at Deep-Sea News how an ancient coastline through the south is reflected today in the voting patterns through a linkage of plankton, soil, cotton, slavery, and demography. A little teaser: Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles Read more…
Busy few months! Cameron completed a manned dive to the Marianas Trench. Along with Sylvia Earle, I discuss this feat on NPR’s Talking Points (you can listen here). In contrast to the positiveness of this story, io9 also features my blog post on the death of deep-sea science. The lack of knowledge Read more…
A marine giant is found and Craig McClain is to the rescue to dispel myth from fact! Have you seen this picture? Apparently it’s been floating around on the internet for a while now, but has experienced something of a comeback as of late, usually with some version of the following caption: Read more…
I’ve been busy late 2011 and early 2012. McClain, C.R., J.C. Stegen, and A.H. Hurlbert (2012) Dispersal, Niche Dynamics, and Oceanic Patterns in Beta-Diversity in Deep-Sea Bivalves. Proceeding of the Royal Society, B, online early McClain, C.R., P. Unmack, J. Jackson-Ricketts, and T. Gullet (2012). Increased Energy Promotes Size-Based Niche Availability in Marine Read more…
My new article at Miller-McCune is out today! I discuss the Darwin Day Road Show, an experiment in evolutionary outreach from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. A posse of evolutionary scientists traveled to the heart of America to share their excitement about science on the birthday of Charles Darwin. This Read more…