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.
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 could make a nice tattoo. It's shown here on a t-shirt from Google images.
Sailfish are "oceanodromous", which means they occur widely throughout the world's oceans, live and migrate wholly in the sea. As opposed to anadromous fish, like salmon, which migrate to freshwater to spawn; or catadromous eels, like Anguilla sp., which migrate to saltwater to spawn.
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I'm sorry, but whoever described that sailfish depiction as "Maori-style" obviously hadn't seen a great number of Maori designs. Too angular.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor | September 10, 2008 9:18 PM
That was me. I agree, too angular on the dorsal fin, but still "in the style of Maori", don't you think?
Posted by: Peter | September 10, 2008 9:32 PM