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.
April 29, 2007
The oil freighter Esso Languedoc outside the coast of Durban (1980). The man who took it, Philippe Lijour, estimated the mean wave height when this occurred to be about 5-10 m. The mast on the starboard side is 25...
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Category: Vessels and Equipment
Exterior view of Phoenix 1000. Photo from U.S. Submarines Regular readers of DSN know that Peter and I try to provide all the latest information on all the newest vessels. Regular readers will also know Peter and I have...
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April 27, 2007
Category: New Research
The twilight zone is a section of water extending from the euphotic zone down to 1000m. A new study demonstrates that this region acts like a gate and that little makes it to the seafloor. ...carbon dioxide --taken up by...
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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
This crystal was recovered from the preserved tissue of a bamboo coral collected from Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the 1850's. Bamboo corals are deep-sea gorgonians (or sea fans) in the family Isididae. They can be found as deep as...
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April 26, 2007
Category: New Research
Approximately 55 million years ago it was very bad to be a deep-sea animal. First the ocean temperature was rising. At the surface, temperatures rose anywhere from 5-10 degrees and in the deep around 5 degrees. The chemistry of...
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Category: From The Desk of Kevin Zelnio
Lucernaria janetae (Cnidaria: Staurozoa: Lucernariidae) Stauromedusae are not entirely uncommon, but not entirely common either. In fact "stalked jellyfish", as they are sometimes known, are very rare in the deep sea and only about 50 species are described (5)....
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Category: Ramblings
It appears that the vessel rolled in heavy seas while the chef was slicing food causing a knife to lacerate his abdomen. From iafrica.com...
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Category: Megavertebrate
Mr. Leatherback reports that we have a winner in the Great Turtle Race. A sea-turtle named Billie made the trek from Coast Rica to the Galapagos in ten days. Billie was sponsored by the Offield Center for Billfish Studies....
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April 25, 2007
Category: Conservation & Environment
In the past, I have made the statement on DSN that there can be no such thing as a sustainable deep-sea fishery. My reasons for this are that Deep-sea fish are slow growing and long lived due to the...
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April 23, 2007
Category: New Research
Image from surfersvillage.com. Surfer catching wave at Mavericks If you want to know where the good surf spots are sure you could ask your local bro', or you could gather some geologist and map the seafloor at high resolution....
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