Post from Chris Mah, purveyor of all echinoderm. Dr. Christopher Mah is a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and conducts reasearch on the biodiversity, biogeography, evolution, and ecology of Asteroidea. Despite his short careeer, his has published over 15 … . . . → Read More: The Sand Dollar Love Shack: A Special Echinoblog to DSN
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By Dr. M, on  May 17th, 2009  3 comments  Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction  breeding site, brittle star, Chris Mah, fertilization, Japan, Mating, Ophiodaphne, Reproduction, sandollars, Sea of Japan, sex, Sex Week, spawn, Tsuruga Bay By Dr. M, on May 17th, 2009 24 comments Mating & Reproduction Bible, breasts, diversity, evolution, fencing, Israel, Old Testament, Penis, penis fencing, prudish, reproduciton, reproductive isolation, sex, Sex Week, sexual selection, Song of Solomon, sperm This is the official introduction to Sex Week at DSN. We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is realized as progeny populate the landscape. Thus reproduction can be considered the backbone of evolution as traits are selected for and against, or perhaps not at all. Reproductive methods, … . . . → Read More: Introduction to Sex Week
By Dr. M, on May 14th, 2009 2 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Nautical Terms and Phrases beam end, capsize, Captain, nautical, Sailing A little late and again from the spectacular website of Gary Martin. Definition: Hard-up – in a bad situation. Origin: The beams are the horizontal transverse timbers of ships. This nautical phrase came about with the allusion to the danger of imminent capsize if the beam ends were touching the water. This dates back to the … . . . → Read More: Nautical Term/Phrase Wednesday: On your beam ends
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 14th, 2009 28 comments - (Comments are closed) New Research Amy Bower, deep western boundary current, global conveyor belt, global thermohaline circulation, Gulf Stream, ocean circulation, oceanography, Susan Lozier Science Daily is reporting that just because they teach you something in graduate school doesn’t make it right. A 50 year old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 – … . . . → Read More: Deep Ocean Conveyor Belt Reconsidered
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 13th, 2009 12 comments Ramblings Dead Kennedys, Epiphone, Guitar, Music, Punk, Riviera I ordered this bad boy with my Obama first-time homebuyers stimulus! Thanks Obama! Like any good american I put my money right back into the economy, specifically Musician’s Friend (and the credit union that holds the car I paid off, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Ace Hardware, 2 credit cards, etc. etc. etc. etc.). This is … . . . → Read More: MY NEW GEETAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Dr. M, on May 13th, 2009 3 comments Biodiversity, Scientist! Biodiversity, deep sea, forams, Komokiacea, Loricifera I get to sit around this morning drinking coffee at a beautiful location and listen to talks about Komokiacea (see here, here, and here also for published artiicles) and Loricifera (see here also). The biodiversity of the deep sea is truly a beautiful thing. . . . → Read More: The Great Thing About Being a Marine Biologist Is
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 12th, 2009 20 comments Books/Media, Cephalopods!, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Debbie Gibson, Lorenzo Lamas, Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, movie, Octopus, shark Yes, this will be liveblogged as soon as it comes out in video. There is nothing wrong with a B-movie that knows it’s a B-movie. More importantly, there could possibly be nothing horrible about a movie with a GIANT OCTOPUS in it. It’s a known fact. (I am ignoring the fact that Lorenzo Lamas … . . . → Read More: In Which the Universe Overheats From a Supernova of Awesomeness
By Dr. M, on May 12th, 2009 3 comments Geology, New Research, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, TGIF: Pictures & Movies National Geographic, Rota-1, video, Volcano When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the volcano has been growing considerably in the last three years. Chadwick says the volcano has expanded 131 feet in height and nearly a thousand feed in width, about as tall as … . . . → Read More: Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano
By Dr. M, on May 12th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, New Research, Scientist! abyss, Biodiversity, Census of Marine Life, deep-sea biologist, Friday Harbor 48.532976,-123.016663 This week finds me for the first time in Friday Harbor. This week I am meeting with 19 other deep-sea biologist, a who’s who, of experts on the abyssal plains. We are here this week to combine our data, our knowledge, and our passion to uncover both patterns … . . . → Read More: Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Art, Megavertebrate, Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls carbon sequestration, deep-sea robot, DNA laboratory, Iron Hypothesis, MBARI, mermaid, Microbes, Silurian sea, Victor Navone Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep seafloor. This delivers another blow to iron fertilization experiments hoping to sequester carbon in the deep-sea. Deep-sea robotic laboratory The first-ever robotic deep-ocean DNA laboratory was deployed at 640 m depth in … . . . → Read More: Around the net…
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