Deep and Stony
A yellow stony coral courtesy "Mountains in the Sea" scientific party, NOAA, and the Institute for Exploration via Oceanus...Posted on April 27, 2008 12:24 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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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Friday Deep Sea Picture: Freaks of Crustacea
Is that a gang sign that crab is flashing? West Side ya'll! A half-blue lobster! Its cool how the mutation only affects part of the segment. In arthropods, each half of a segment is regulated by developmental patterning genes....Posted on April 25, 2008 9:37 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jellybot2000
New Scientist's technology blog has a cool post on robot jellies! This is real slick engineering done by the German automation company Festo, which describes its AquaJelly as ""an artificial autonomous jellyfish with an electric drive and an intelligent,...Posted on April 23, 2008 8:42 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Blob Sculpin
A Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) from Davidson Seamount. Image from MBARI....Posted on April 11, 2008 9:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Are There None Among You Brave Enough?
To take our knitting challenge? Or are you waiting for us to raise the stakes a little? To refresh your memory, I challenged knitting readers to create a Bone-Devouring Zombie Worm with Dwarf Male in a previous post. Since the...Posted on April 8, 2008 6:49 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Got a Spare $25,000?
With a lot of extra spare change you could name a speciesPosted on April 6, 2008 9:14 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo
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
Deep Oceans and Deep Space
I don't study hydrothermal vents. I rather enjoy the deep muddy ooze, and its organisms, that comprise much of the earth's surface. Not that I don't like vents, I just like the soft bottoms better. I have been often...Posted on March 30, 2008 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Invertebrate Battle Royal Roundup
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
You Should Fear and Respect the Radula
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
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