TGIF: Jacques Cousteau
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Look familiar? Some of you may remember that Wes Anderson parodied this in the Life Aquatic....
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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.
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November 30, 2007
TGIF: Holidays
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
No overdue paper on deep water formation in the western North Atlantic for last semester's PhysO class is gonna stop us from having a little fun on Thanksgiving day. In about one week there should be a Christmas tree...
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Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Monterey Bay At Sunset
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
A mosaic of Monterey Bay from photos I took two weekends ago on the steam back to Moss Landing. Click on the image for the full size (warning: large file size)...
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November 28, 2007
Is A Octopus Cookie Cutter Worth $35
Category: Cephalopods!
Yes, it is! A cephalopod cookie cutter and helping to protect the oceans for just $35...that's a slice of fried gold.
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November 27, 2007
What are my research interests?
Category: Scientist!
This is what people pay me to do.
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Deep-Sea Fish Avoid The Dead
Category: Adaptations
Coryphaenoides armatus arrive to feed on bait (mackerel) set by ROBIO. Photo from here A recent study by Barry and Drazen (open access)notes that some deep-sea fishes avoid the odor of dead conspecifics. Coryphaenoides armatus, the Pacific grenadier, is...
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November 25, 2007
We Are Going to Need Some More Money
Category: New Research
Perhaps as no shock, oceanography is going to need some more money, about $2-3 billion to be exact. A group of international scientist called the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) says "warming seas, over-fishing and pollution are...
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Landslide!
Category: Geology
I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills till the landslide brought me down The largest known arthropod is now followed by the...
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November 21, 2007
The Largest Arthropod Ever!
Category: Adaptations
Caption below under next figure: Image from "Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod" (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend toward the small side compared to the some of the giants found in the fossil...
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November 20, 2007
How to Save The Ocean
Category: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea
&Here's the list beginning with my thoughts. Hopefully the readers can suggest other ideas and revisions with the goal of this being a central archive for active ways to conserve our oceans. Start by eating the right fish or not...
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