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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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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
A Deep Sea Mutualism in Response to Predation
Sometimes we just need a little help to get by in life. A nudge, some encouragement or a simple pat on the back will suffice. Being stuck to a rock is not a real good way to avoid predators, unless...Posted on March 29, 2008 9:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TGIF: Assessing Coral Populations
Here's a wonderful clip of Nancy Knowlton discussing her coral research in the tropics. Nancy is one of the world's premier marine biologist with an accomplished scientific career. Courtesy of Scripps Oceanography, UC San Diego, "Endangered Oceans" Explorations DVD, Volume...Posted on February 1, 2008 5:09 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baby Jaguar Sharks Like To Hang Out in Corals
Figure 2 from Etnoyer and Warrenchuk (2007). Callogorgia americana delta colonies with catshark egg cases attached. Depth 533 m. ROV suction hose on the left is 15.25 cm (6 in) in diameter. I am excited that our first post on...Posted on January 10, 2008 4:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deep Sea Christmas Spectacular
This video shows why it can feel like Christmas when you're cruising the seafloor in a submarine and you stumble upon a deep-sea coral community. The "marine snow" is falling, the bamboo corals light up like Christmas trees, the anemones, well, they kind of remind me of poinsettias.Posted on December 24, 2007 9:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Monstrous sea anemone from 2500m
An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae had a column diameter of 1m, a tentacle crown of 2m diameter, and tentacles trailing an estimated 3m and more.Posted on December 21, 2007 7:46 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deep coral happenings on Capitol Hill
We have a new state in this country! Welcome number 53. It's called "The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States" Of course, it's not a state, really, in the Nunavut sense of the word. This is a...Posted on December 20, 2007 2:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Instant Anthozoa
There is so much happening in the field of deep-sea coral research right now that there is no way to cover everything in detail without cheating you out of some of the excitement, so I'll list it all in a...Posted on December 20, 2007 9:10 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
