Brittlestar City: The Video
Category: Seamount
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Brittlestar City
Category: Seamount
On a seamount near Macquarie Ridge lies a city several kilometers down. No mermaids, merman, or Snorkels reside here. Rather millions of brittlestars, living arm tip to arm tip, extend there tiny arms toward the surface to capture food. Much...
Posted by CR McClain at 1:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Deep Coral Grove Video
Category: Coral
Bubblegum trees and red tree coral from Georges Bank Nova Scotia....
Posted by CR McClain at 12:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Meet Bowie, Canada's Newest MPA!
Category: Biodiversity
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 by Kevin Zelnio at 8:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Blob Sculpin
Category: Seamount
A Blob Sculpin (Psychrolutes phrictus) from Davidson Seamount. Image from MBARI....
Posted by CR McClain at 9:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
TGIF: Davidson Seamount
Category: TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Posted by CR McClain at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Category: Biodiversity
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 by CR McClain at 12:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Baby Jaguar Sharks Like To Hang Out in Corals
Category: New Research
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 by CR McClain at 4:41 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Me On TV...Kind Of
Category: Books/Media
Christina Kellogg invited me to give a seminar at the joint USGS/University of Southern Florida College of Marine Science. Overall I think the talk went well, but you can be the judge. You can view the whole talk about seamounts...
Posted by CR McClain at 9:48 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Saba Road
Category: Seamount
People once believed "The Road" could not be built on Saba Island until civil engineer Josephus Lambert Hassell took a correspondence course in engineering and organized a crew of locals to start construction in 1938.
Posted by Peter Etnoyer at 7:54 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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