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.
Speaking of deep-sea posters, Dr. Charles Messing (Nova Southeastern University), who ordinarily works on crinoids and deep-sea corals and just generally a renaissance man, has left the benthos to offer this 25x36-inch wall poster that includes 109 of his pen-and-ink illustrations of pelagic organisms from bacteria to whales and from the surface to the abyss. The drawings are arranged by ecological grouping and depth, with names, taxonomic affiliation and maximum known size. The short is you can be sure the information is accurate and the drawings exceptional.
The poster is available on www.ebay.com (search Pelagic Realm poster) for US$25.00, which includes USPS Priority mail shipping with tracking. You can get in touch with him at messingc@bellsouth.net for international shipping.
Life Science
Comments
This is a gorgeous poster, I really love pen and ink illustration. I know what's going on my christmas list.
Posted by: Noadi | November 20, 2007 11:23 AM
I like the way Dr. Messing's poster illustrates a wide variety of life forms, placing larvae next to medusae next to billfish and whales. This poster would look best hung low on the wall, I think, so you could see and read the illustrations and the text. It's a very nice piece. Might look great in a classroom.
Posted by: Peter | November 20, 2007 7:06 PM
I am tempted to order. But all that energy and effort to produce this poster and the illustrator went with Comic Sans? Ouch!
Posted by: Jason | November 20, 2007 7:51 PM
Dr. Messing-- you are off to a good start on your art and poster.
Perhaps we can help get it redesigned and printed on green paper -- even distribute in US?
I would recommend another font, and perhaps another way to handle the text graphically.
Print on Endeavor or some other green Forest Stewardship Council Paper.
best fishes,
Timothy Colman, publisher
Posted by: Timothy Colman | November 24, 2007 9:30 PM
It is no easy task self producing and printing a poster so lets all give Chuck a break. Picking apart the text and font on this is bit of splitting hairs. The font and text are readable but not formal. The illustrations and time spent are no less than amazing. Printing on green while ideal may not have been available nor allowed for a poster that was affordable by many.
Posted by: CR McClain | November 25, 2007 4:39 PM
splitting hairs
I respectfully disagree. There is a great discipline and tradition of scientific illustration with guilds devoted to splitting those very hairs. It is clear that Dr. Messing is a gifted draftsman. But the readability and function of the text on a work like this is as important as the images themselves. That is, if they are meant to convey information and not just be a collection of pretty pictures. It is incredibly frustrating to realize how much time, energy and effort went into those images and then see them juxtaposed against a font originally meant for use only in a cartoon-based Internet chat space. I find it baffling.
Posted by: Jason | November 25, 2007 9:22 PM
Stop your damm belly-aching. At least you can buy it. I can't get any joy with the international shipping link. We may as well be on the far side of Mars for us deep-sea fans outside of the US of A :-(
Posted by: Andrew | November 28, 2007 9:38 PM
Dear sir,
I am a students in biology department can you please send me a poster contains spore structure of bacillus.
Yours Sincerely
Othman
Posted by: othman | December 30, 2007 10:08 AM
Andrew, the international shipping link is the email address for Dr Messing, I believe. He created the poster.
Posted by: Peter | December 30, 2007 3:27 PM
They are all fantastic.Thanks..
Posted by: sed | December 31, 2007 5:40 AM