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.
December 31, 2007
Category: Ramblings
2007...what to say? A year that saw a lot of changes. First DSN moved to the big time here at Sb. Our traffic and regular visitors increased. At the old DSN, we hit 100,000 hits in nearly two years...
Posted by CR McClain at 2:38 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2007
Category: Microbes
The Neptune Memorial Reef project is the largest man made reef ever conceived and provides an extraordinary living resting place for the departed, an environmental and ecological masterpiece, a superb laboratory for marine biologists, students, researchers and ecologists, and...
Posted by CR McClain at 7:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2007
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
One of my back up plans for early retirement is to start a consulting business for Hollywood special effects (SFX) studios. My crack team of marine invertebrate biologists and kinesiologists will advise big studios on new scary creatures for...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:42 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 27, 2007
Category: New Research
A recent study linking deep-sea biodiversity to ecosystem processes recognized that 1) the deep-sea supports the largest biomass of living things on the planet and 2) the deep-sea represents the most important ecosystem for carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous cycling. The...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2007
Category: Industry & Government
Apparently that slime trail left behind by snails and slugs is good for the skin. The studies have verified that the dribble of snail allows to prevent and to eliminate wrinkles, to attenuate grooves, to eliminate scars caused for wounded...
Posted by CR McClain at 11:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2007
Category: Instant Anthozoa
This video shows why it can feel like Christmas when you're cruising the seafloor in a submarine and you stumble upon a deep-sea coral community. The "marine snow" is falling, the bamboo corals light up like Christmas trees, the anemones, well, they kind of remind me of poinsettias.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: 25 Things You Should Know About the Deep Sea
So all day long after the previous post I wondered, how separated is Architeuthis and Kevin Bacon? As you might remember although the Giant Squid had some cameos in previous B movies, it really was not until 1954 in 20,000...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2007
Category: Adaptations
Chionoecetes tanneri (chio-snow and ioketes-inhabitant) are commonly referred to as Grooved Tanner Crabs and related to the more commercially important snow crab, C. opilio. C. tanneri is from the infraorder Brachyura (short-tailed) or the true crabs (Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:17 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 21, 2007
Category: Instant Anthozoa
An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae had a column diameter of 1m, a tentacle crown of 2m diameter, and tentacles trailing an estimated 3m and more.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:46 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 20, 2007
Category: Instant Anthozoa
We have a new state in this country! Welcome number 53. It's called "The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States" Of course, it's not a state, really, in the Nunavut sense of the word. This is a...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 2:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
