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.
October 31, 2007
Category: Books/Media
Slow news week but stumbled upon this over my morning cup of joe. Illex argentinus which is the biggest in terms of volume, value and also size of the squid. Typical annual catches are around 150,000 tonnes with much of...
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October 29, 2007
Category: Conservation & Environment
In the words of Rick at MBSL&S So let's just say you have a couple hundred thousand metric tons of iron filings laying around the house. While in the tub one day, you conceive of a terrific idea of dumping...
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Category: Adaptations
Many of you have probably seen this already. No doubt, you have said something like This thing has teeth where a beak should be -- disquietingly human teeth, at that.The picture is disturbing to say the least and will...
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October 26, 2007
Category: Books/Media
Rick at MBSL&S tagged me to produce "my favorite ocean-themed scary movies." My favorite has to be Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961). Edward Wain is inept Government Agent XK342. He is on the trail of mobster Renzo Capeto, a...
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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
You can find anything on the internet......
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Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
From JAMSTEC: Scaly foot--a spiral gastropod clad in iron sulfide scales Found only in an extremely limited region of hyrdothermal areas within the Indian Ocean, which is called "Kairei Field". As the name suggests, this creature is covered in rugged...
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October 24, 2007
Category: Vessels and Equipment
Sure Sphere is a filthy piece of literary swill but it also a vital component of any submersible. As you may remember from geometry, for any given volume, a sphere has the smallest surface area, or for any given...
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Category: Conservation & Environment
Beth Terry over at Fake Plastic Fish caught an error in this post about Evert Fresh Produce Bags. I was reading the list of plastic alternatives in your post on Deep Sea News, and I noticed you recommended Evert Fresh...
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Category: Conservation & Environment
The deep ocean (deeper than 1km) is a CO2 sink. Deep water masses are cold and dense which minimizes vertical mixing with overlying ocean layers. This means what carbon travels to the deep is sequestered away from the atmosphere. Eric...
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October 19, 2007
Category: Conservation & Environment
Abel Pharmboy over at Terra Sigillata has a nice write up about Therapeutic Natural Products from the Sea. The ocean fauna is the potential host to several "sources of compounds that can be used as therapeutic agents." These include drugs...
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