Expeditions:
Shiver me timbers! The RV Tangaroa has a poet on board, and he's makin' jingles at sea. The mate is there up on the bridge, steering us south down the Ridge. It's blowing a lot when he gets to the...
Posted on April 23, 2008 7:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Gaelin Rosewaks was one of a dozen people who changed my ideas about what it means to live an inspired life when I dropped out of the film business after ten years in Hollywood, and enrolled in the summer session...
Posted on April 21, 2008 8:58 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thomas Morton traveled with the R/V Alguita as they sailed the North Pacific Gyre to document the so called Garbage Island: "Part and parcel with this was my attitude toward the Pacific Garbage Patch, or as we willfully misidentified it...
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Posted on April 10, 2008 10:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Adrian Glover, deep-sea scientist and polychaete expert, is live blogging his experience aboard the RRS James Clark Ross in Antarctica. Posts will cover the expedition with occasional rants about his research including that on whale falls communities. I have...
Posted on April 6, 2008 9:21 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Quotes from Beebe'sHalf-Mile Down in which he describes his and Otis Barton's 1934 descent to 3,028 feet off Bermuda. To reach this depth the two placed themselves into a self-designed 4,500lb sphere about five feet in diameter raised and...
Posted on March 9, 2008 12:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life,...
Posted on March 6, 2008 12:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Add another tremendously gargantuan fossil lizard to your list. "The Monster", which unfortunately was a predator, measured 50 feet putting it in contention for the largest Pliosuar. Jorn Hurum led the excavation of the monster last summer last summer on...
Posted on February 27, 2008 2:35 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Pet" Giant Pycnogonid attacking computer. This morning my email was flooded with friends, family, and colleagues notifying me of this story. What's not to love about a story that combines gigantism, the deep, and Antarctica all in one? An...
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Posted on February 19, 2008 12:54 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may remember Peter's sobering post on the Plastic Expanding Inevitable, a wonderful part of the Pacific where plastic particles outnumber plankton. According to a post at the Oyster's Garter, a great joint blog between a journalist and a marine...
Posted on January 21, 2008 6:24 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Perhaps as no shock, oceanography is going to need some more money, about $2-3 billion to be exact. A group of international scientist called the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) says "warming seas, over-fishing and pollution are...
Posted on November 25, 2007 5:34 PM • 2 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.
