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…
My post at Deep-Sea News on How Presidential Elections Are impacted by a 100-Million-Year-Old Coastline was selected for Open Lab 2013, an anthology of the best science writing on the web! I feel very honored to have been selected from all the outstanding entries.
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…
A recent online article in Forbes about whether a Lion’s Mane Jellyfish is truly big or not links to my prior post at DSN (also see my discussion here about this). Best part of the post this juicy quote. Why am I convinced that millions of people are wrong and Read more…
O’ yeah just set up my publications on Google Scholar Citations. This is awesome!
Virginia Gewin writes about scientists fostering online personas for Nature. The article is well researched and discusses a variety of scenarios from a variety of online personalities. Online media offer researchers unique ways to express their interests and goals, foster collaborations and garner invitations and opportunities. But even scientists who Read more…