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.
The Global Oceanographic Data Center (GODAC) has a webpage of favorite deep-sea videos from the Japanese Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) with cool names like "Milky Way floats on the abyss" and "Unusual atmosphere". What better way to whittle away the hours AND do your research at the same time?
The JAMSTEC video database at GODAC....
...provides streaming of the valuable deep-sea research videos maintained by JAMSTEC, along with various detailed information (metadata) including research location, purpose, video content (organism names and phenomena recorded), and panoramic images.
I can't post the video because the site runs on RealPlayer, but if you download the appropriate plug-in you should be able to watch actual deep-sea video from at least four different research sites in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
So, I'll share this little ditty from YouTube with you instead; it's tagged JAMSTEC. Is that Benny Goodman I hear playing in the background? Too cool!
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Posted by: Jives | June 6, 2008 1:34 PM