He is an Explorer-At-Large at the National Geographic Society, Commissioner for the U.S. Ballard is Founder and President of the Ocean Exploration Trust Director of the Center for Ocean Exploration and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. He is a Boston Sea Rover and a member of The Explorers Club his home and laboratory are on the south coast of Massachusetts. His most recent book, The Shark Handbook, is a must buy for all shark enthusiasts.
He has written dozens of scientific research papers and has appeared in a number of film and television documentaries, including programs for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC, and numerous television networks. Greg has been an avid SCUBA diver and underwater photographer since 1978. Much of his current research centers on the use of acoustic telemetry and satellite-based tagging technology to study the ecology and behavior of sharks. His shark research has spanned the globe from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to coral reefs in the tropical Central Pacific. For more than 30 years, Greg has been actively involved in the study of life history, ecology, and physiology of sharks. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Ph.D. He is also adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology and an adjunct scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He has been a fisheries scientist with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries since 1987 and currently heads up the Massachusetts Shark Research Program. Gregory Skomal is an accomplished marine biologist, underwater explorer, photographer, and author. "The Authentic Origin of 'between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea'." Word Histories, 20 June 2020, and "The Shakespearean Origin of 'Sea Change'." Word Histories, 19 August 2020, ĭr. The Seafaring Dictionary: Terms, Idioms and Legends of the Past and Present. "Oyster Fact Sheet." Chesapeake Bay Foundation. "Meaning and Origin of Nautical Terms." Meaning and Origin of Nautical Terms, An Official Website of the U.S. When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to Pay: Seafaring Words in Everyday Speech. "Course Is Plotted on Sea Language." The New York Times, The New York Times, 21 Dec. "Oysters - the Tudor Version of Cinema Popcorn." Reuters, Thomson Reuters, 29 Jan. And in waters too tainted to grow edible shellfish, oysters are heroes of restoration, with adult oysters capable of filtering nitrogen and sediment out of 50 gallons of water in a single day.Īmbrogi, Stefano. Oysters are now considered a luxury food and come with tasting notes, wine pairings, and caviar. To ordinary theatregoers, oysters were kind of like popcorn.īut, like many of Shakespeare's sayings, and like language itself, what oysters symbolize has migrated. Archeologists excavating the sites of London's Rose and Globe theatres found great quantities of oyster fragments in the cheapest viewing areas. Oysters certainly meant something different to Shakespeare's original audience than they do to us today.
The troublemaker Falstaff refuses to lend money to his associate Pistol, and Pistol responds, "why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open." The sword gives the expression a more forceful connotation than its current use, which often appears as, "The world is your oyster!" on congratulatory greeting cards and the like. This familiar phrase comes from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. "Oysters," Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York, Printed by Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company, 1896.
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