Marine biologists Edith Widder and Erika Raymond installed the first deep-sea webcam on the ocean floor in Monterey Bay this week using MBARI’s Ventana ROV (pictured below). The Eye in the Sea unit is installed in 1000m of water, and should be able to stream images and data. The remote monitoring system will take video … . . . → Read More: Deep-sea webcam
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By Peter Etnoyer, on  January 23rd, 2009  Leave a comment  Gadgets & Gear, Scientist!  edith widder, MARS, webcam By Dr. M, on January 23rd, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies beach, Elephant, Marine Mammals, video When I see this video it just makes me wonder who would win in a showdown between an elephant and a killer whale. Or better yet a three way battle royal that also includes a shark. Discuss amongst yourselves. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Swimming elephants
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 22nd, 2009 9 comments Biodiversity, Coral, New Research, Scientist!, Seamount bamboo coral, deep sea, isidella, isidella tentaculum, Seamount The bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum finally rolled of the presses over the holidays. I can finally speak the name aloud. DSN debuted the video of the actual moment of discovery at Discovery Channel in concert with the 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. I went through several names before I settled on I. tentaculum. … . . . → Read More: Naming a new species is tricky business
A brave clan of 86 British scuba divers have reclaimed the coveted world title for underwater ironing, defeating Australia’s previous record of 72 scuba divers flattening wet shirts last year. Reuters News calls the new extreme underwater sport “not a complete waste of time.” Watch the video here. . . . → Read More: Extreme Underwater Ironing
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 22nd, 2009 5 comments Conferences, Expeditions, Scientist! Adventure, Best of Zelnio, Field Work, Live Blogging, Research, Rick MacPherson, Science Online, scio09 After a most wonderful lunch (thanks Science Online sponsors!), it was time for the first of two sessions I was co-moderating. This session was a fun one to plan and execute on how to post from strange places. Co-organizer Karen James of the Beagle Project did most of the moderating and talked from the … . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Blogging Adventure
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 21st, 2009 9 comments Conferences, Education College Teaching, home school, Online Tools, Open Source, Science Online, scio09, wiki The third session I participated in was Teaching College Science: Blogs and Beyond moderated by Brian Switek, of Laelaps and Dinosaur Tracking, and Andrea Novicki, at Duke’s Center for Instructional Technology. Brian “live blogged” the conference notes onto the session’s Science Online wiki page. The audience was split into groups of 4 where were … . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Blogs in College Teaching
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 21st, 2009 5 comments Conferences, Education Creepy Treehouse, Facebook, High School, ning, Online Tools, Science Online, scio09, Teaching The second session i attended at Science Online ’09 was a fantastic discussion of how social networking sites, blogs and other online tools and media are used in high school biology instruction. What was so great about this discussion was that the panel was composed of high school science teacher Stacy Baker and several … . . . → Read More: Science Online ’09: Miss Baker and Her Students
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 21st, 2009 16 comments Archaeology, History, and Art Aerial Photo, Obama, Politics Up at Popular Science’s website. Why are there these “ant hill”-like communities? I guess I sort of imagined it to be packed down the mall with people. Was it set up that way by security? Anyways, AWESOME speech! I just about shed tears when he said he would restore science in the white house. . . . → Read More: Inauguration Day Aerial Photo
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 20th, 2009 6 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Megavertebrate Dolphin, Human-Nature Interaction, Marine Mammals, Southern Fried Science Southern Fried Scientist tells it like it is. He just posted a very well-written article on “the cult of dolphin worship”. “… the cult of the dolphin is so strong that people refuse to accept that sometimes nature isn’t really that pleasant. That it isn’t all like a Disney Movie. That we don’t always know … . . . → Read More: The Cult of Dolphin Worship
By Dr. M, on January 20th, 2009 15 comments Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Scientist! Cephalopod, fish, Foraminiferan, Octopus, Tattoo You are all probably familiar with my and KZ’s fascination with tattooing arts. By now most of you should be aware of Carl Zimmer’s science based tattoo gallery that features us both. But did you know that there is gallery of sea life tattoos? The Love lab at UCSC host the ever growing gallery … . . . → Read More: Ocean Tattoos
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