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.
If art is the universal language, how do you say "don't eat orange roughy"? We'll have to ask electronic artist Don Relyea, who generated the image above. "Orange Roughy" was inspired by his wife's cooking, which, unfortunately, includes the fish formerly known as "slimehead".
Orange roughy are long lived and quickly depleted. They come from seamounts around New Zealand, generally. The fishery works like a clear cutting operation. Take it all and move on. It's not sustainable. On the bright side, the New Zealand government is one of 69 countries to take part in a new international agreement on high-seas and deep-sea fisheries.
As the agreement states, deep-sea areas need to be rigorously managed to identify and protect vulnerable ecosystems.
Comments
w00t!
Funny, I found out about the agreement through DSN instead of from one of my Professors who was there! Of course in his defense he got back here after the semester started so he's been playing catch up with his time since then as have I.
Posted by: eric@heupel.com | September 12, 2008 6:38 PM
I think we should have a universal spoken language as well!
If you have time see this interesting video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
Posted by: Brian Barker | September 13, 2008 2:49 AM