A bunch of beautiful gals just waiting to meet you in a deep sea near you! Ceratioidei from the Tree of Life web (click on picture to go there). Image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License – Version 3.0, copyright Theodore W. Pietsch. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}A bunch of beautiful gals just waiting . . . → Read More: TGIF: Meet the Ceratioids!
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By Dr. M, on  August 20th, 2009  Leave a comment  Conservation & Environment  Cousteau, green, Jacques Cousteau, WWJD Not that JC, the other one Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His grandson, Philippe Cousteau, Jr., spells out 5 things his grandfather would want you to do. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Not that JC, the other one Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His grandson, Philippe Cousteau, Jr., spells out 5 things his grandfather would want you to do. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, New Research, New Species Annelida, New Species, polychaetes Ventral view of Swima species 1 with three attached and two autotomized b-bombs. Image © 2004 Karen J. Osborn. Or perhaps more appropriately have the bomb. Osborn et al. report in Science seven previously unknown species (0.7 to 3.6 inches) of annelid worms hailing from the deep pelagic (>1800m). All the new species form a . . . → Read More: DeepC Wormz R Da Bomb
By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Critters, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, New Research bioaccumulation, fish, mercury, methylmercury, open ocean, pelagic Figure 2 from Choy et al. 2009. Log-transformed mean THg concentrations (μg/kg) at the mean log(mass) of 4.24 or approximately 17.4 kg plotted as a function of median depth of occurrence for 9 species of pelagic fishes. Mercury is distributed across the earth whether it is in the atmosphere, biosphere, or geosphere. In the marine . . . → Read More: More Mercury Deeper
By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls deep sea, East Pacific Rise, Felipe Calderon, Guaymas Basin, Hydrothermal Vent, marine sanctuary, Mexico President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary, protecting 360,000 acres of deep-sea habitats. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary,… By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 Leave a comment Art Alvin Sputnik, animation, Music, puppertry, theatre, Tim Watts From the New York Times… Enter Tim Watts. His show, called “The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer,” uses animation, puppetry, live drawing and musical numbers to tell a touching story about a man with a broken heart who travels to an underwater world in search of environmental and spiritual healing. Giving away . . . → Read More: The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 20th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Alvinocaris, Alvinocaris komaii, Back-Arc Basin, Best of Zelnio, COI, Eastern Lau Spreading Center, ELSC, fiji, Genetics, Hydrothermal Vent, Lau Basin, Morphology, Shrimp, Systematics, taxonomy, Tomoyuki Komai Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in the time since then! I always meant to give the back story on it but hadn’t the time while I madly finished writing my Masters degree. I’ve finished and got . . . → Read More: Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species
By Dr. M, on August 19th, 2009 2 comments Uncategorized academic, article level metrics, journals, online publishing, open ac, Open Access, plos, plos one, publishing, STM A presentation to the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on August 2009 from Peter Binfield Chief Editor at PLoS One Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}A presentation to the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on August 2009 from Peter Binfield Chief Editor at PLoS One Broadcast . . . → Read More: The Future of Online (Academic) Publishing
By Dr. M, on August 19th, 2009 One comment Nautical Terms and Phrases discipline, infraction, nautical, Navy, officer, quarterdeck, Sailing, Sailor, ship to be reprimanded The quarterdeck at the stern of the ship was officer’s country. A sailor didn’t go there unless he had work to do or if he was being disciplined. A sailor caught in some infraction might be called aft for a Stern Lecture – being balled out by an officer. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px . . . → Read More: Wednesday Nautical Phrase/Term: Stern Lecture
By Dr. M, on August 18th, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, California, EOS, Geology, hydrate, Hydrothermal Vent, landslide, methane, minerals, New Hampshire, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, plume A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
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