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Category: Conferences
YEAH!!!!! One of my favorite conferences (naturally) put up the first curricular for the 4th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems. It was formerly called the International Symposium on Vent and Seep Biology, renamed to accommodate whale falls and emphasize the...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls
Listen. I know hot water, mainly because I am always in it. A new study reports the hottest water ever recorded 464 degrees C (867.2 F). That so hot the water is in the vapor-phase supercritical region (say three time...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Expeditions
It was only 3 years ago when the northernmost vents were found in the Arctic Ocean at 71 degrees, just above Iceland. Dr. Rolf Pedersen is a geologist at the Centre for Geobiology at Norway's University of Bergen and led...
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Category: Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls
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Category: Critters
The following polychaete worm, probably a Nereid, was found in our deep sea mussel tanks. Often times we will collect a bunch of mussels in a scoop which results in gathering some other rare deep sea creatures and their larvae....
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:17 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Microbes
"Epsilonproteobacteria, it turns out, are one of the predominant groups of extremophiles in marine systems. In one environmental DNA sample taken from a hydrothermal vent, Epsilonproteobacteria represented nearly 50% of the inferred diversity (Sogin et al., 2006)." Christopher Taylor, the...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 9:27 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
Here's a quiz for you kids. Which of the habitats above possesses the most microbes? A. Fresh Volcanic Basalt on the seafloor, B. Sargasso Sea Water, or C. Farm Soil A recent study by led by Santelli in Nature...
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Category: Cephalopods!
Researchers have been very concerned about the paucity of females of Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis, an octopus inhabiting the hydrothermal vent community of the Eastern Pacific Rise. One senior, conservative squid researcher even went so far as to comment that this octopus...
Posted by Kevin Zelnio at 1:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Megavertebrate
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 by CR McClain at 4:01 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Adaptations
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...
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