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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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Geology:
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
Sometimes Sea Monsters Are Real
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
Climate Induced Collapse of Deep-Sea Ecosystems
Beginning with Victorian science and progressing through the onset of modern deep-sea biology, the dominant paradigm was that the deep sea was a stable ecosystem. Organisms, and the communities that contained them, were unchanging because the deep ocean was buffered...Posted on February 6, 2008 8:55 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sea Floor Sundays at Clastic Detritus
With three biologist on staff now our coverage tends to lean toward the biological. We do cover geology, technology, and the such but from our warped biological view. What we need around this joint is some more geology! Over at...Posted on January 28, 2008 1:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Challenging The Mavericks and Why The Surf Gods Love Geologists
Image from surfersvillage.com. Surfer catching wave at Mavericks The Mavericks competition was this past Saturday bringing in the best dozen or so big waver surfers (invitation only!). The best word to describe someone who spanks waves reaching 20-30 feet,...Posted on January 13, 2008 4:28 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chikyu Vs. The Earthquake
Behemoth is the only word that comes to mind as I discuss, with mouth agape, about the deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu. JAMSTEC, the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, launched a venture in 2005 to take the deepest cores...Posted on December 14, 2007 10:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Lethal Deep Sea Leads To Mass Extinctions For All!
The ends of Permian and Triassic periods were a very bad time for marine invertebrates. Suffering, starvations, watching loved ones die...very hard times indeed. A whole spectrum of hypotheses is out there to account for mass extinctions including giant asteroid...Posted on December 2, 2007 12:14 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Landslide!
I took my love, I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills till the landslide brought me down The largest known arthropod is now followed by the...Posted on November 25, 2007 5:16 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One Less Variable I Have To Keep Track Of
Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years? Credit & Copyright: C. R. Scotese (U. Texas at Arlington), PALEOMAP In 250 million years from now, my research will be a little easier. Besides the insights that I will derive from...Posted on September 25, 2007 9:33 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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