You may remember Peter's sobering post on the Plastic Expanding Inevitable, a wonderful part of the Pacific where plastic particles outnumber plankton. According to a post at the Oyster's Garter, a great joint blog between a journalist and a marine biologist, the ORV Alguita has set off on a new journey to the North Pacific Gyre to examine marine debris. Algalita Marine Research Foundation has a blog for the trip and school-themed blog to boot. Miriam comments about the size of the A-frame. Hey, it's not the size that matters it's how you trawl. Maybe I'm spoiled but I can't imagine spending time in the mid-Pacific on a ship that size (left)
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Let's face it Marine Biologists are the rock stars of science not gene jocks , chem nerds, math geeks* but marine biologist.
I'm passing along a request for all you glamorous, photogenic marine biologists:
The March 2008 copy of Marine Technology magazine features the "ROV-AUV-UUV" annual report.
If there is one piece of advice that marine biologist and Nifty Fifty Speaker Ap