About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the work so the group’s findings would be accessible to the public, scientists, conservationists, and policy makers. I am delighted to say that this work, and the major finding of … . . . → Read More: Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
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By Dr. M, on  February 19th, 2009  14 comments  Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Seamount  conservation, Coral, Invertebrate, Open Access, plos one, Seamount, sponge By Kevin Zelnio, on February 19th, 2009 4 comments Critters, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Alvinocaris, Crustacea, Hydrothermal Vent, Shrimp, Wordle I just sent in the proofs to a paper that will come out in the next issue of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. I won’t go into much detail till it becomes available in April, but here is a wordle to give you a clue. The species name is blacked out … . . . → Read More: New Paper Teaser
By Dr. M, on February 18th, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government conservation, finances, mining, money, Nautilus, PNG, recession Nautilus CEO: Hello Official Representative of Teck Cominco Limited: This is —-, I have some good news and some bad news. CEO: Good news first Rep: We’ve had some good times together, a great relationship. I’ve really enjoyed that CEO: Yeah remember that time in PNG… Rep: Uhhh, yeah…but umm…I really need to tell you the bad news. I’m … . . . → Read More: Excuse me sir there is a call
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 17th, 2009 7 comments Environmental Sciences, New Research, Scientist! chad nelsen, economics, Surfing, surfrider My good friend Chad Nelsen, Environmental Director at Surfrider Foundation, has a great post at the Surf Economics blog about daily beach attendance at Trestles, in SoCal. Why the schism? Surfers have to go to work. Beachgoers… don’t. In a way, he’s kinda blogging his doctoral dissertation at UCLA, feeding us tidbits like this … . . . → Read More: Surfing PhD
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 16th, 2009 9 comments Biodiversity Antarctica, Arctic, cliona, global conveyor belt Two oceans couldn’t be farther apart. The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans have about 160 degrees of separation but Census of Marine Life scientists say they share more than 235 species in common. Most of them are not actively migratory fishes and birds, instead they are passively migratory invertebrates like the sea cucumber and sea … . . . → Read More: Bi-polar Invertebrata-ta
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 16th, 2009 3 comments Vessels and Equipment Beaufort, Cable Layer, DUML, Military, North Carolina, Piver's Island, ship Random military vessel seen from my office. Not sure of the name as it is not printed on the facing side, but my officemate, the Southern Fried Scientist suggests it is a cable layer or other type of workhorse. I just think big ships are cool All the news on the Earth's largest . . . → Read More: Island Views
By Dr. M, on February 16th, 2009 8 comments Vessels and Equipment Atlantic, Collision, France, HMS Vanguard, Le Triomphant, Nuclear, submarine, UK From the Gaurdian… A Royal Navy nuclear submarine and a French vessel have been damaged in a collision deep below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant, which were both said to have been carrying nuclear missiles, are believed to have crashed while submerged on 3 or 4 February, according to … . . . → Read More: Holy Flying Fish Captain, That’s A Submarine!
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 15th, 2009 4 comments Adaptations, Cephalopods!, Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Cephalopod, David Gallo, TED, video, WHOI, Wired Science, Wood's Hole Mo, the Neurophilosopher, brought to my attention via Twitter Wired Science’s “10 Fantastic Marine Biology Videos”. They are all great bits from the marine youtube-o-sphere. Most of them we have played here one time or another, but one was actually new to me. A TED talk by David Gallo. He’s an oceanographer at Wood’s … . . . → Read More: Marine Biology Videos at Wired Science
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 14th, 2009 2 comments Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love deep sea, evolution, miriam goldstein, oyster's garter, sex, sponge, Valentine's Day I’m really enjoying The Oyster’s Garter these days. Miriam Goldstein keeps me updated with important nature stories like “When sponges ruled the Earth” 635 million years ago in the Early Cambrian epoch, just before the Cambrian explosion. Since more than 90% of modern sponges resemble those ancient sponges, perhaps there’s something to be said for … . . . → Read More: She said spawning
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 13th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Books/Media, New Research, Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies convexella, gorgonian, research blogging, sea fan, world's deepest The depth record for deep-sea fans is held by Convexella krampi at 5850 meters in the frigid Antarctic, North Atlantic, and Kermadec Trench. . . . → Read More: TGIF: Worlds Deepest Sea Fan
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