Oh Hai! I iz a deep see wurm! kthankxbai Say hello to my little fried… In fact, this guy is so small you might have missed if you didn’t use the right sieve mesh size! So small, that they are best viewed as a scanning electron micrograph (SEM) image like the one on the right. . . . → Read More: New Species Friday 10/30/09 – Ophryotrocha fabriae
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  October 30th, 2009  One comment  Biodiversity, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Dorvilleidae, Ophryotrocha, Polychaete, SEM By Dr. M, on October 29th, 2009 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Carnivals & Link Love adrift, Alaska, Baychimo, blizzard, Canada, Ghost ships, Hudson Bay, legend, steamer, stranding, trading company The Baychimo, image from Wikimedia Commons Top Tenz as a list of 12 ghost ships. Just kidding, it is just ten. My favorite… One of the most amazing cases of a real-life ghost ship concerns the Baychimo, a cargo steamer that was abandoned and left to drift the seas near Alaska for nearly forty years. . . . → Read More: Ghost Ships
By Dr. M, on October 29th, 2009 Leave a comment Vessels and Equipment boats, Diving, hull, jet drive, scuba, submarine, underwater comms, watercraft Scubacraft 3 in submersible mode Boat…check. Submarine…check. Scuba platform…check. Submarine , boat, and dive platform…check. The Scubacraft 3 and 6 are the newest ultimate watercraft. Price tag? Well, that is not important right now. What is important is that this is on Dr. M’s Christmas wishlist. The SC’s are advanced twin-tunnel composite hull and deliver . . . → Read More: Submersible or Boat? Both!
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 29th, 2009 5 comments Conservation & Environment, Megavertebrate, Ramblings, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Japanese, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd, Southern Fried Science, Southpark, whaling If you missed what was perhaps the most glorious thing to ever be created, you can watch Southpark’s Whale Whores episode in its entirety here. Especially watch the Larry King segment in the middle for the most accurate description of Paul Watson yet. And if for some strange reason you are not reading Southern Fried . . . → Read More: Southpark Hates On Sea Shepherd
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 28th, 2009 5 comments Cephalopods!, Megavertebrate Giant Squid, Predation, sperm whale, Tony Wu Finally, the amazing underwater photographer Tony Wu caught a sperm whale with a piece of giant squid caught between its teeth. Must see pics! I’m not sure of the copyright status of the images so I will play it safe and just refer you to the exclusive story on the Daily Mail. One of the . . . → Read More: Sperm Whale Caught with Giant Squid Snack Between Teeth
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 28th, 2009 Leave a comment Education, Expeditions Beagle Project, Brazil, Darwin and the Adventure, Sailing, tall ship, Tocorime These are the slides from a talk I gave last Friday to the Duke University Marine Lab on the Darwin and the Adventure project in Brazil. I don’t read off of slides, so alot of info is lacking but you get the drift. Darwin and the Adventure: Sailing, Science and Outreach in South America View . . . → Read More: Darwin and the Adventure: Sailing, Science and Outreach in South America
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 27th, 2009 8 comments Biodiversity, New Research benthic, Best of Zelnio, Biomass, Community Ecology, deep sea, Ecology, Meiofauna, Mesh, Methodology, RB Editor's Selection, Sampling Design, Sediment, Sieve, Species Diversity The sieve: a marine community ecologist's best friend. Enter the sieve. It is a marine biologists best friend, saving hours of sorting and enabling quantification of fauna. In fact you can get these miracle workers at McMaster-Carr for a mere $40-50. You take good care of these puppies and they will last several graduate student’s . . . → Read More: (Sieve) Size Matters
By Dr. M, on October 26th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Natural Disaster, New Research anoxic, dead zone, hypoxia, NSF, Oregon, oxygen In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was the first study to quantitatively assess the condition. Chan et al. found that from 2000-2005, hypoxic (low oxygen conditions) extended to shallow water but always remained above 0.5 ml/L. In . . . → Read More: Dead Zones Are Here To Stay
By Dr. M, on October 26th, 2009 Leave a comment Books/Media, Cephalopods!, Megavertebrate albatross, Antarctica, beak, Cephalopod, International Polar Year, penguin, predator, seal, Southern Ocean, stomach, whale The Cephalopod beak guide for the Southern Ocean. What everyone needs for the coffee table ..we interrupt this post so that Dr. M can perform the rare dance of the geek and squeal in delight…by Jose Xavier and Yves Cherel and published by British Antarctic Survey was published recently as a product from the International . . . → Read More: Guide To Things That Might Gnaw On Your Brains In Southern Ocean
Finally someone has brought to of my favorite things together…hard liquor and cephalopods. Unleashed on the world is Kraken Black Spiced Rum! Hat tip to Indie Squid Kid. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Finally someone has brought to of my favorite things together…hard liquor and cephalopods. Unleashed on the world is Kraken Black Spiced Rum! Hat tip . . . → Read More: Rum and Kraken!
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