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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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June 30, 2008
Category: Adaptations
Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a "silent invasion" happening around the world's oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:38 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Geology
The previous post reminded of this video we posted awhile back. From Youtube: This is the largest explosive burst that was observed at the Brimstone Pit during the Submarine Ring of Fire 2006 Exploration Jason dive J2-192. There were probably...
Posted by CR McClain at 4:11 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Geology
Can a volcano be explosive in the deep sea? What about violent? What about mildly aggravated? Historically, we've assumed the answer to be no. Explosive eruptions were thought to be absent at depths below the critical point for seawater...
Posted by CR McClain at 3:45 AM • 1 Comments •
June 29, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
Please note that the following post is riddled with sarcasm. Those whose delicate nature cannot handle such are strongly encouraged to not read this post. At DSN we seem to have a track record for stirring the pot when it...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:44 AM • 11 Comments •
June 27, 2008
Category: Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 10:37 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods!
Hat Tip to Matt for pointing us to this post at Ectoplasmosis. Two parts beautiful and three parts disturbing you're unlikely to forget this video for the rest of the day. It somehow seems a fitting video following my...
Posted by CR McClain at 10:28 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods!
Craig meet Fate...Fate meet Craig...Fate you can now proceed to slap Craig in the face. In my 2 year reign tenure at MBARI, I have literally spent a total of two months at sea off the central California coast...a day...
Posted by CR McClain at 10:12 AM • 0 Comments •
June 26, 2008
Category: Critters
The following polychaete worm, probably a Nereid, was found in our deep sea mussel tanks. Often times we will collect a bunch of mussels in a scoop which results in gathering some other rare deep sea creatures and their larvae....
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:17 PM • 7 Comments •
June 25, 2008
Category: Biodiversity
That is the common theme in marine biology. Clara Moskowitz has an article up at LiveScience describing how scientists are struggling to keep up with marine life discoveries. Here is a short snippet:"Scientists figure there are at least 1 million...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 10:40 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Conservation & Environment
Surfrider Foundation's online newsletter Soup is reporting new rules from the National Marine Fisheries Service that federal shark fisheries in the Atlantic ocean and Gulf of Mexico will need to bring shark fins in to port with the carcass of...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:29 AM • 5 Comments •
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