Figure from Hoyoux et al. Munidopsis andama from a woodfall. Note the spoon shaped claw. A deep-sea crab walks into a pub and asked, ”Where’s the bar tender?” Few deep-sea organisms rely on food originally from land. Most deep-sea dwellers rely on marine snow (detritus raining from the surface), large food falls like dead whales, or . . . → Read More: Wood, It’s What’s For Dinner
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By Dr. M, on  November 23rd, 2009  5 comments  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Life Science, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Anatomy, Crab, Diet, Fungi, Galatheidae, Gut Microflora, Munidopsis, Munidopsis andama, Squat Lobster, Wood, Wood Fall By Dr. M, on November 23rd, 2009 2 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Scientist!, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls abyss, Census of Marine Life, CoML, Seamount, taxonomy Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life, started in 2000 with the goal “to advance a major new international observational program . . . → Read More: Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
By Dr. M, on November 23rd, 2009 6 comments Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Deep Sea Music a cappella, cover, I'm On A Boat, parody, San Francisco, Soapbox Melodics, UC Santa Cruz Kevin and I are big fans of I’m On A Boat and the internets are full of parodies of this parody (Bert and Ernie ver., Office ver., English Channel ver., I’m On A Bus ver., I’m In A Tux ver., Hard Rock ver., and so on). Those are find and dandy, but they pale . . . → Read More: I’m On A Boat A Cappella
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 17th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Vessels and Equipment AUV, Nereus, R/V Cape Hatteras, ROV Wood’s Hole’s Nereus was offloaded off the R/V Cape Hatteras today. Stood by to watch it get packed up. It was a tight fit with little room for error! The Nereus is a hybrid AUV/ROV that was just out to Cayman Rise where it was used to help discover new vents in the Caribbean! To . . . → Read More: Hosta la Vista, Nereus
By Dr. M, on November 16th, 2009 5 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Vessels and Equipment boats, coracle, craftsmenship, DIY, hide, how to, willow branches Forget the megayacht of yesterday. I am sure I can afford a megayacht timeshare…unless you can rent by the minute and I start saving now. Despite my lack of cash, I do have access to some willow rods. If I could just find the a large animal hide, I’d be set. I guess it’s . . . → Read More: With Twigs and an Animal Hide You Too Can Build a Boat
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 5 comments Biodiversity, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Baited Camera Traps, deep, fish, food fall, lander, Pacific, snailfish, Trench In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found only in the Northwest Pacific between 6.1km to 7.5km deep. Now this same group filmed swarms of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis nibbling at bait 7560 meters, the deepest for . . . → Read More: Deepest Fish On Film
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 One comment Biodiversity, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies BBC, giant stingray, smalleye, stingray BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video, is the largest of all stingrays reaching wing widths of 2m. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}BBC videographers caught a giant stingray on film for the first time. The smalleye, shown in the video, is the largest of all stingrays reaching wing widths of 2m. Broadcast… By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 7 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies biomechanics, bone, fish, fish head, jaw protrusion, ligament, novelty, skull, slingjaw wrass Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body length to capture crabs, shrimps, and small fishes. This occurs through multiple structural novelties, as the video above can attest to, involving fundamentally reorganizing the way the bones . . . → Read More: Crazy Fish Heads
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 8 comments Vessels and Equipment ecological footprint, hybrid, island, promenade, sustainable, WHY, yacht More moving island than yacht, the WHY super-yacht is terrestrial luxury at sea. But this concept is no gas-guzzling Hummer of the sea ready to transform your ecological footprint to ecological tsunami. The 36,000 square foot masterpiece is model of sustanability with a drag reducing hull, diesel-electric propulsion system, and photovoltaic panels covering~10,000 square . . . → Read More: Super Yacht
Carnival of the Blue Allie has the latest Carnival of the Blue at Oh For the Love of Science. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Carnival of the Blue Allie has the latest Carnival of the Blue at Oh For the Love of Science. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet |
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