Biodiversity:
Bowie Seamount, Canada's newest Marine Protected Area. OTTAWA (AFP) -- An underwater volcanic mountain teaming with ocean life off Canada's Pacific Coast has been added to the nation's growing list of marine protected areas, officials said Tuesday. "Bowie Seamount is...
Posted on April 24, 2008 8:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
With a lot of extra spare change you could name a species
Posted on April 6, 2008 9:14 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A species of holothurian, Pannychia, swarms a whale fecal mound in the abyssal Pacific. When Miriam visited me last week at MBARI, we discussed over lunch my current "great" hypothesis. Every scientist has them...these are the hypotheses that are high...
Posted on April 1, 2008 4:01 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The battle royal is on with several bloggers choosing colors. The whole thing got started when Sheril at the Intersucktion state "No contest! Cukes would eat squid for breakfast" implying that somehow echinoderms were better than Mollusks. The whole...
Posted on March 29, 2008 6:06 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jim has decided that he will join the darkside for the Invertebrate Battle Royale. That's fine! We wouldn't want someone with such poor cognitive processes on our team. Jim's attack centers on the idea that the Aristotle's Lantern is...
Posted on March 29, 2008 5:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've already addressed the difficulty of doing experiments in the deep sea which ultimately leads to their rarity. I also mentioned given the costs and risks of doing something so crazy like an experiment in the deep sea makes...
Posted on March 26, 2008 4:29 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked out on in the past. In my previous work I have focused on the Ptenoglossa...
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Posted on March 23, 2008 5:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Don't get me wrong this is pretty freakin' sweet, but echinoderms are not the only large Antarctic sea creatures. But this is way cooler... That is Syrinx aruanus, the Australian Trumpet, described by Linneaus in 1758. They are found...
Posted on March 21, 2008 10:58 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More from Deepscape... Image 61 of sandy sediments at 970m in the Faroe-Shetland Channel with stalked glass sponges (white spots top), an unidentified fish, and numerous invertebrate burrows....
Posted on March 21, 2008 4:04 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sheril over at The Intersection seems to be confused about what the coolest invertebrate is. She goes so far as to call out PZ about his hyper-infatuation with Cephalopods. Let's face it there is no way an echinoderm, especially a...
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Posted on March 20, 2008 3:08 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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.
