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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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New Species:
New Deep-Sea Communities From Whale Poo
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 on April 1, 2008 4:01 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
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
Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you'd be a little on the kinky side too, right? Osedax, the "bone-devouring" worm is weird. Now, I know long time Deep Sea...Posted on March 2, 2008 12:23 AM • 17 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
Yet More Ugly, Vile Deep-Sea Fish Discovered
It is one biology's highest compliments to have a species named after you. But what if the above was your namesake? What does it say about your character? What does the author of that species description really think of...Posted on January 30, 2008 7:27 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Largest Arthropod Ever!
Caption below under next figure: Image from "Giant claw reveals the largest ever arthropod" (2007), Biology Letters The arthropods we are familiar with today tend toward the small side compared to the some of the giants found in the fossil...Posted on November 21, 2007 11:27 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Gorton's Law
Over at the World's Fair...Anyway, this meme asks that you come up with your own scientific eponym. What's that exactly? Well, first read this excellent primer by Samuel Arbesman, which basically provides a step by step description of how...Posted on November 14, 2007 11:42 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Help Me Identify This
So my current research focuses on the influence of canyon topography on the biodiversity and body size of deep-sea invertebrates. To address this requires lots of cores, sorting, and identification. My current favorite species is this tube-building polychaete (50-70mm). Another...Posted on November 6, 2007 8:42 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I Don't Want to Cause a Panic...
...but there is more than one species of bone-eating worm! The genus Osedax (Annedida: Siboglinidae) are common features of dead whale falls and obtain their nutrition through bone-penetrating roots that host symbiotic bacteria. Whale bones don't have chance! The first...Posted on October 2, 2007 3:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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