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By Dr. M, on  February 13th, 2009  Leave a comment  TGIF: Pictures & Movies  beach, shift frame, stop motion By Kevin Zelnio, on February 12th, 2009 31 comments Ramblings Beard, Blog for Darwin, Darwin, Darwin Day, On the Origin of Species, Southern Fried Science In honor of our main man today, Charlie D, the Southern Fried Scientist and I are having a Darwin beard challenge. To have an even playing field, we shaved it down this morning. We start today as Darwin started his life, naked and smooth like a monkey baby’s bum. This is something … . . . → Read More: From Birth to The Origin: The Great Darwin Beard Challenge
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 12th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Seamount, Vessels and Equipment Baja, DeepSee, fishing, Scripps, submersible Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and remote sites seamounts off the coast of Baja California. They report that life is abundant, but the impacts of fisheries are clear, even 1000 feet deep. Fishing nets, longlines, and … . . . → Read More: Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 12th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Books/Media, Coral coral reef, indonesia, kids, National Geographic, Octocoral, red sea, scuba diving, seahorse, video It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species of pygmy sea horses from Indonesia and the Red Sea. Headlines are saying the pygmy wonder horses are endemic (hello) to certain shallow reef gorgonians. Gorgonians (the other corals) … . . . → Read More: Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 One comment Books/Media, Bringin' It, Scientist! lecture, rock and roll, sciene I wish my talks had posters like this. The Biology Dept. at University of North Carolina commissioned a local indie poster designer to create flyers for their lectures. Rumor has it that one lecturer bit the head off a bat and another required a silk rob to be removed before his performance. …and finaly I … . . . → Read More: Science is Rock and Roll Baby!
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 One comment Bringin' It, Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government Drilling, energy, gas, Obama, offshore drilling, oil Rick notes that… US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today his intention to shelve plans passed on the final business day of the Bush administration to open much of the U.S. coast to oil drilling, including 130 million acres off California’s coast from Mendocino to San Diego. To those of you from the oil … . . . → Read More: Yeah!
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, Fish, New Research, New Species Adaptations, deep sea, eyes, fish, spookfish, taxonomy No matter how hard I try I cannot seem to produce a post about two really great studies that were published recently. Thankfully Ed Yong has tackled one of them and probably did a better write up than what I intended. Ed you master of the written word o’ how I long to be you. … . . . → Read More: Two Papers I Want To Write About But Can’t Find The Time
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love, Critters, New Species, Scientist! Asteroid, database, dominatation, Invertebrate, seastars …from the Echinodermata. Chris Mah has heard my call and unleashed the World Asteroidea Database. This will definitely make roll call easier when I assemble the troops to overtake the world. Chris has done a terrific job and taxonomic databases such as this not only are the future of science but allow the addressing of … . . . → Read More: I Call On You To Make A List Of Our Minions…
By Dr. M, on February 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Dumping, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government carbon credits, carbon sequestration, circulation, climate change, deep sea, sediments Mention any carbon sequestration scheme and inevitably someone’s original idea is to dump it into the deep. All these plans share 1)an out -of-site out-of-mind attitude and 2) ignorance about processes in the deep. So pardon me if I don’t get too excited about the new scheme to save us all. Rick and Miriam have … . . . → Read More: Dumping Stuff In The Deep Will Solve All Our Problems
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 11th, 2009 4 comments Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Bob Ballard, Colbert Report, exploration, Okea The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Robert Ballard Colbert Report Full Episodes Funny Political News Christian Bale Parody Joke of the Day Thats why lobsters are red… LOL . . . → Read More: Ballard on the Colbert Report
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