Lobstermen & Fishermen Dance and Sing
Category: Industry & Government
Will two starry eyed lovers from opposite sides of the track be able to bring peace to Maine?
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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.
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February 28, 2007
Secrets of the Gulf Expedition Online
Category: New Research
Enjoy live feeds from the Secrets of the Gulf Expedition with the US Navy NR1 Nuclear Submarine and Bob Ballard's Argos tow sled as they survey the Flower Garden Banks region for paleo-shorelines and deep octocoral habitats at 100m depth. I'll be taking part in the benthic surveys remotely. I hope you can, too.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 10:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2007
25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea: #16 Bioluminescence is the predominant source of light in the deep.
Category: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea
From Bioluminescence Web Page: Nudibranchs are not generally thought of as bioluminescent organisms, but this pelagic form Phylliroe has the ability to produce light. (The head is on the left). (Length approx. 7 cm) See the SeaSlug Forum for...
Posted by CR McClain at 11:41 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bad Day For Hagfish Revisted
Category: New Species
Some of my favorite science writers are not at National Geographic or Nature, but rather at the Monterey County Herald. They skillfully cover much of the fantastic science being conducted at MBARI, my current home. Karen Ravin, provides some of...
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February 25, 2007
Hydrothermal Vents=Global Warming
Category: Conservation & Environment
Unfortunately, this weekend I came across the complete stupidity of Paul Hollrah and Phillip Brennan. In their own words... ...the "inconvenient truth" is that Gore's hypothesis of global warming is exactly wrong... upside down...In the January 15 edition of...
Posted by CR McClain at 2:27 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pose A Question
Category: Ramblings
About a year ago the Seed Mothership, sponsored an event that allowed readers to pose questions to their favorite blogger. Peter and I, before we had the mothership connection, joined up with that event. You, the readers, presented several...
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February 23, 2007
Weekend Foolishness
Category: Ramblings
During "Friday Night Discussion", aka pizza and pitchers, a question was posed. Which is prettier, Britney Spears or the Kraken? OR ...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:51 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Deep-Sea Picture (02/23/07)
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Hermit crab from a cold seep site sampled during seeps voyage on RV Tangaroa. Note the seep-associated bacterial filaments on its claws (furry-looking covering). Image courtesy of NOAA/NIWA....
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February 22, 2007
Deep-Sea Sharks in Red
Category: Conservation & Environment
Scientists added several species of deep sea sharks on Thursday to the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) endangered Red List due to overfishing....
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Genome For An Endosymbiont Woes
Category: Scientist!
On the 15th, I reported about the recently sequenced genome of R. magnifica. One of the coauthors is not pleased with the papers outcome. Actually, in reality, most everything about this paper, well, kind of sucks. Why? Not because of...
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