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.
September 30, 2007
Category: Carnivals & Link Love
The Carnival of the Blue thing has really come together lately thanks to Mark Powell, the power of the blogosphere, and a dedicated online ocean public that includes you. Go see the latest line up of stories at Shifting...
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September 29, 2007
Category: Scientist!
To kick off the new badge "I'm a marine biologist and, to be honest, I kind of hate dolphins", Science Creative Quarterly has published an article about the realities of being a marine biologist. Milton states it clearly. Just...
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September 28, 2007
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
The Washington Post is sponsoring the onBeing project that is a project based on the simple notion that we should get to know one another a little better. What you'll find here is a series of videos that takes you...
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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Yo DIC (Dissolved Inorganic Carbon), Let's Kick It! Hat tip to Christina Kellogg for pointing this out to me....
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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
More pictures here......
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September 27, 2007
The question is whether crops belong in your mouth or your gastank? Bioscience has a interesting article from June with National Geographic following on their heals this month. Both are very interesting and worth the read. Nash in Bioscience lays...
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September 26, 2007
Category: Adaptations
Tardigrades are a paradox. There are less than 1,000 species globally yet they can survive anything-temperature extremes, starvation, irradiation, dehydration, vacuums, and the pressures of the deep sea. So the obvious question is whether tardigrades can survive space.? The...
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Category: Books/Media
If the title doesn't drive the Google hits in then hopefully word of mouth will. Sheril has the low down on this iconographic video of our field, red hot barnacle sex. Keep in mind that barnacles as a percentage of...
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Category: Vessels and Equipment
SeaWiFS turns 10 this year. What is SeaWiFS? It is one of the most important advances of science in the last 20 years. The SeaWiFS is an instrument on a sattelite (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor) that circles the planet 14...
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September 25, 2007
Category: Vessels and Equipment
Corsair generously sent along their 8GB Survivor Flash Drive midsummer for me to field test at the behesting of this post. Over the last few months I have done everything I can to beat this flash drive to hell....
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