I’ve asked blog buddies to bid Peter adieu in haiku. I’ll aggregate them here and ask our readers to contribute their own deep sea haiku below to see him off the docks of Deep Sea News. From Dr. M: Deep corals in black With socialist agendas Each polyp provides Not all hands on deck A vessel starting with three Our … . . . → Read More: Sending Peter Off with Haiku’s
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  August 16th, 2009  Leave a comment  Biodiversity, Carnivals & Link Love  Circus of the Spineless, Southern Fried Science I’m sorry guys, I’ve been drinking too much with the Southern Fried Scientist that he just passes out before he can even open his laptop. Well, he sobered up enough to post the 42nd edition of the Circus of the Spineless. Go check it out, lots of good stuff there! Get your submissions in to … . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless Finally Up!
Peter has made 4 years of contributions to Deep Sea News! Between January 2007 and July 2009 Peter averaged 12.7 ± 5.4 posts per month. Not bad! I did not have data for the 1 and half years spent at Blogger prior to joining Seed Scienceblogs, but he ranged from 3 posts in July … . . . → Read More: A Natural History of One Dr. Peter Etnoyer
By Dr. M, on August 16th, 2009 2 comments Ramblings, Scientist! birds, bling, fireworks, over the top, Peter Etnoyer, pirates, seahorse, shark, starfish, starfish really loves you, sunsets . . . → Read More: We Will Miss You Peter!
By Peter Etnoyer, on August 15th, 2009 10 comments Education, Industry & Government, Ramblings, Scientist! commencement, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, TAMU-CC I expected an obstacle course on Commencement Day, just one more hurdle to clear, but the book length manuscript was delivered, and the defense was over, so I was hooded by Dr. Tom Shirley, happy the PhD was complete. My little girls were not so happy. They thought I had joined a cult, that … . . . → Read More: Time to fly
My good blog buddy Mike Haubrich is in a bind and needs some help. His son Bing is stuck in Japan. To get him back he is asking for people to donate some spare change and also to make it fun, test your knowledge about Japanese culture! Mike writes, Bing Haubrich has made new friends … . . . → Read More: Please Help Bring Back Bing!
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 14th, 2009 Leave a comment Adaptations, Cephalopods!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Chromatophores, color, movie, squid CreatureCast Episode 1 from Casey Dunn on Vimeo. Hat tip to Pharyngula. Like PZ said, “This is communicating science”. Well done on the part of the Dunn Lab at Brown University. Make sure you visit CreatureCast and sign up for their RSS feed! . . . → Read More: TGIF: Color Me Squid
By Dr. M, on August 14th, 2009 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Beluga, birth, calving, cute, monkeys, Thailand, Vancouver Aquarium At the Rayavadee hotel in Krabi, Thailand Aurora gives birth to her latest calf at 3:39 PM, on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at the Vancouver Aquarium. The newborn beluga was about 1.3 meters long and roughly 50 kg. . . . → Read More: TGIF: O’ those crazy aquatic mammals? Wait a minute…
If there was a mountain in your backyard with no name, how long do you think it would stay that way? Not very long. Some intrepid explorer would climb it, map it, and name it. In the ocean, though, many mountains are unnamed, and unexplored. There was a time when I lived in Los Angeles … . . . → Read More: Northeast Pacific Seamount Map: a Gift that Keeps Giving
By Dr. M, on August 12th, 2009 Leave a comment Nautical Terms and Phrases Ballast, cargo, cranky, irritable, nautical, Sailing To be irritable. “Dr. M. is cranky because it is before 10AM and he has not had coffee” From Brian Berlin…”Possibly from the Dutch krengd, a crank was an unstable sailing vessel. Due to a faulty design, the imbalance of her cargo, or a lack of ballast, a crank would heel too far to … . . . → Read More: Wednesday Nautical Term/Phrase: Cranky
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