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.
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 articles about:
- A photographic image collection and analysis workshop in Great Britain
- MBARI's open-source Video and Annotation Reference System (VARS)
- The deepwater "fish spas" of the Kermadec-Tonga Arc
- Longline sampling for deep-sea fishes on seamounts near the Azores
- A new online data portal from Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Creature Feature: Black Cardinalfish
- Stalked crinoids
- Traveling exhibit called "Deeper than Light"
- Scientist Profile: Tim O'Hara and his latest publication on ophiuroids
- WWF-News Zealand's new online inventory and exhibit "Treasures of the Sea"
