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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September 13, 2008
Category: Scientist!
When I was much, much younger, I joined Jacques Cousteau's Calypso Club (named affectionately after his beloved ship). Was anyone else club members? Is there still a Calypso Club?
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 10:59 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Ramblings
Farewell, Scienceblogs. This will be my last post at SB's DSN. It's a little sad for me, because I kinda feel like I grew up here.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:27 AM • 1 Comments •
September 12, 2008
Category: Ramblings
Our time here with Seed is at an end. One chapter closed, another one is opened. Right now it is a time a great changes for me. As many readers know, I recently moved to North Carolina to take up...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 6:59 PM • 6 Comments •
If art is the universal language, how do you say "don't eat orange roughy"?
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:24 AM • 2 Comments •
September 10, 2008
Category: Carnivals & Link Love
Eric has the latest edition of the taxonomy and biodiversity blog carnival up, Linneaus' Legacy. Go there and learn some stuff!...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 6:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Books/Media
GrrlScientist is having a sailfish appreciation day over at Living the Scientific Life. She's posting hot links to the online story at National Geographic about their cooperative fish herding techniques. Its really amazing. I trolled a "maori-style" sailfish image that...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 9:11 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Weather
Naturally, one of the favorite pastimes here in the Cone of Probability is to monitor as many websites as possible for different forecasts and projections of Hurricane Ike. The more the models stray away from Corpus Christi the less...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:26 AM • 2 Comments •
September 9, 2008
Category: Weather
Corpus Christi is in the center of Hurricane Ike's projected trajectory. He's coming at us like a fastball over home plate. This is a bit scarier than being on the periphery of the strike zone. TAMU-CC started issuing updates...
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:19 AM • 2 Comments •
September 7, 2008
Category: New Research
Flow velocities of ocean-ending outlet glaciers would have to be ~ 49 km/yr, 70 times faster than those glaciers move today for Greenland alone to raise sea level 2m.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 8:37 AM • 3 Comments •
September 6, 2008
Category: Conservation & Environment
Shrimp fisherman and environmental activist Diane Wilson gave a talk today at the Harte Research Institute. Diane's best known for sinking her own shrimp boat in protest of toxic discharge from a Formosa Plastic industrial plant, but she's taken on Union Carbide and others like a One Woman Army.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 5:03 AM • 0 Comments •
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