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This week I have found that my cup runneth over with work. Several things around the web have caught my eye which deserve substantial commentary. That's what you pay for, right? Unfortunately, today they get a link. First, here is...
Posted on May 8, 2008 9:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the final installment of VBS.tv's TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Part 12 is more of an epilogue of sorts. The bonus interview with Frederick vom Saal is very informative! I would like to thank the producers and hosts of the...
Posted on May 6, 2008 10:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Continuing the series of VBS.tv's TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. It finally gets good. In part 10, "Its totally not like the money shot, its totally worse". Says it all right there, totally. Watch the net closely in...
Posted on May 4, 2008 9:41 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Continuing the series from VBS.tv's TOXIC-Garbage Island series. Contains some vulgar language. They finally actually do something, but they are still just as annoying. Yet, part 9 starts to nail it....
Posted on April 26, 2008 9:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Continuing the series, here is parts 6 and 7 from VBS.tv's series TOXIC-Garbage Island. Contains some vulgar language. If you can get past the annoying attitude of the host, there are some lessons here! I extremely disagree with his statement...
Posted on April 25, 2008 9:13 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
We previously brought you part 3, here is TOXIC-Garbage Island Part 4 and 5 from VBS.tv. Contains some vulgar language....
Posted on April 22, 2008 9:04 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Leighton Rolley, a systems technician on the "world's most advanced research ship" the RRS James Cook, used a remotely operated vehicle capable to 5000 m depth to plant the Welsh dragon flag in the waters of the Galapagos, in the...
Posted on April 20, 2008 6:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
According to CNN.com, the Nisshin Maru, a japanese whaling ship, returned from the "field season" with only half its intended sample size for its scientific whaling. "Japan's top whaling ship returned to port Tuesday, leading a fleet that killed just...
Posted on April 15, 2008 5:41 PM • 11 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
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.
