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February 29, 2008
Category: Critters
Picture copyright C. Fisher/Ridge2000 Brisingids look like crinoids, but they are actually sea stars, just kind of turned over. this particular beauty is Freyella sp. from near hydrothermal vents in the Lau Basin back-arc spreading center. They typically are on...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 12:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Do you ever get bored when you're scuba diving on a Caribbean shipwreck, and wish you had a Mermaid guide to show you around? Thanks to the fabulous new mer-suit technology from Otter Bay your wish may come true....
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:55 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Vessels and Equipment
How do you say "sea dragon" in Mandarin? China is planning an ocean exploration program on par with their space endeavours, including plans to build a sub-sea base station and a manned submersible capable of diving to 7000m by 2010.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2008
Category: Critters
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. "The Monster", which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the largest Pliosuar. Jorn Hurum led the excavation of the monster last summer last summer on...
Posted by CR McClain at 2:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Vessels and Equipment
At Wired you can read about the saving of the 14-deck, 55,000 ton Cougar Ace carrying 4,700 new Mazdas. As water was being replaced in ballast tanks, a malfunction occurred preventing the starboard ballasts from refilling. What ensues is a...
Posted by CR McClain at 12:30 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
...maybe as retaliation for killing them off. The last estimate of 71 in 2007 compared to 63 in 2006, continues a four year increase. One of those 71 occurred not 5 minutes from my house. The latest in 2008 An...
Posted by CR McClain at 12:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: New Research
You are a giant swarm of Antarctic krill migrating daily from sunlit surface waters down to the 4500m in the abyss. Some portion of your population is bound to get hungry by the time you reach the bottom. Whattya gonna...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:09 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
Thanks to Rick MacPherson, Program Director for the Coral Reef Alliance (and fin-tastic blogger!), for this shirt. We met a few weeks ago at the N.C. Science Blogging Conference where we co-moderated a session (along with Peter, Karen and...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:12 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
Fig. 1 from Halpern et al. Global map (A) of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types. (Insets) Highly impacted regions in the Eastern Caribbean (B), the North Sea (C), and the Japanese waters (D) and one of the...
Posted by CR McClain at 10:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2008
Category: Just One Thing Challenge
So how did going organic affect your pocketbook? I imagine for many of you it didn't add as much as you thought it would. This weeks will be a little easier and that is why I will ask you...
Posted by CR McClain at 8:40 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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