Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
Peter McGrath, one of the project's founders, brought my attention to the Beagle Project. The goal is to build a replica of the Beagle and sail it in 2009 along Darwin and Fitzroy's original route. The mission appears to be threefold: public outreach, education, and science. One of the scientific goals is a biological assessment of the changes since Darwin's original observations. A blog is also kept for the project . Should be interesting to see how this project develops with the potential for education and research. My only criticism it that a project goal should be torment creationists at each port-of-call and chase them down with Beagle on the high seas.
As Peter notes, the rule is that all content must be related to the deep sea. I like to say I don't make the rules,but I do. So courtesy of the Beagle Project Blog...
In 1832 Darwin improvised a net and trawled the North Atlantic:
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"I am quite tired having worked all day at the produce of my net. -- The number of animals that the net collects is very great & fully explains the manner so many animals of a large size live so far from land. -- Many of these creatures so low in the scale of nature are most exquisite in their forms & rich colours. -- It creates a feeling of wonder that so much beauty should be apparently created for such little purpose."
