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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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August 30, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
Sheril reports that Barack Obama has taken up the challenge and answered the 14 questions posed by the ScienceDebate08 coalition. These 14 issues run the gamut from space to health to security and education. In particular to myself and you...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 7:25 PM • 3 Comments •
August 29, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
I couldn't resist. FAILBlog has the original entry, a screenshot from a forum by someone who has a plan to stop sea level rise, an outcome of global warming. Here is what the text says: "I was watching inconvenient truth...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 12:21 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Deep Sea Music
Just another lazy friday afternoon. I don't know about you, but i felt more relaxed after listening to that, almost sleepy. Maybe you need a little sting to wake you up after that? (below the fold)...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:53 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Many deep-water animals have never been photographed alive in their natural habitat, they're known only from their pickled state. Dried, dusty, and broken specimens fill museum drawers.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:13 AM • 5 Comments •
August 28, 2008
Category: Carnivals & Link Love
Eric over at that brilliant invertablog, The Other 95%, is hosting the next edition of Linnaeus' Legacy. It is a blog carnival about taxonomy, biodiversity and systematics. The current edition is at A DC Birding Blog. You have 1 week...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 7:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Weather
Our expedition to the Twilight Zone is still on hold because of generator problems on the RV Nancy Foster. Now we've got Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gustav bearing down on us from the Caribbean. The storm is expected to enter the Gulf...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:39 AM • 2 Comments •
August 27, 2008
Category: Carnivals & Link Love
While we give you more details about the BIG NEWS. Japanese researchers publish there super duper extremely important must kill all whales research. They are getting skinny! Though they cite global warming as the cause in their paper, Anthony Judd...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 11:12 AM • 2 Comments •
August 26, 2008
"I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication."...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:00 PM • 3 Comments •
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