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.
August 31, 2007
Category: Archaeology, Sociology, & History
This week's TGIF video comes from Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura who says he has identified the ruins of a sunken city off the coast of Japan. If you SCUBA dive, you'll love it. If you don't, you'll wish you did. Could this be "another Atlantis"?
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August 30, 2007
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
A microscopic baby octopus was collected in plankton samples from a 2005 expedition to the Sargasso Sea. National Geographic posts more photos at their website here....
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Category: Biodiversity
Stumbled upon the site Catalogue of Organisms for those with an inordinate fondness for systematics. It's high on the geek-o-meter which is probably why I love it so much. You got to love a site that dedicates a whole post...
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Category: Expeditions
...of ten strangers, picked to be on the same expedition, 5 scientists and 5 evangicals working together to find out what happens, when people stop being polite, and start getting real... A group of five scientists and five evangelical leaders...
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Think of the changing seasons around you, and the way plants and animals respond to these changes. Trees change color. Birds migrate, and bears go into hibernation. So, we wonder, what are the seasonal cues in the abyss? Are summer days longer than winter days in the deep-sea? What's the ocean equivalent of rainfall, anyhow?
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August 29, 2007
Category: Books/Media
A great website called howtoons produces cartoon how-to guides to build a variety of thing to teach children, and adults, basics of engineering and science. My favorite is the Soda Bottle Submarine. When I am back ashore I plan on...
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Category: Vessels and Equipment
Bornrich.org, which is not a site I visit often, as a list of the most popular luxury submarines. Most of these we have covered before. There is just something about the name and design of the Proteus that draws...
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August 28, 2007
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Poor Aussies in Sydney got nailed by a giant mixture of salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed that whipped up into a froth by storms off Queensland. The giant sea foam buried beaches and buildings,...
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Category: Books/Media
The Census of Marine Life on Seamounts (CenSeam) project released Newsletter No 8 earlier this month. Visit their website to download this and other editions. This particular issue is one of their most extensive newsletters ever, featuring interesting stories and...
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August 27, 2007
Category: Adaptations
Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to more dissolved CO2 in the world's oceans. In turn this will increase the hydrogen ion concentration in seawater, and lower pH from pre-industrial levels (8.179) to present day levels (8.104)...
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