The latest Maritime Monday over at gCaptain. Shrimps love sea urchins!! Echinblog has the proof. The surreal Ice Aquarium. Yes, it is in Japan. Did you have to ask? A few days ago, our friends at the Underwater Thrills blog threw down the gauntlet to determine the cause of the corkscrew seal killers. With a 2005 bottle … . . . → Read More: Thermolinkus thioreducens
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By Dr. M, on  August 30th, 2010  15 comments  Scientist!  colloborating, social media, synthesis, twitter Twitter is a microblogging site, restricting posts, i.e. Tweets, to 140 characters or fewer. This limit allows real-time posts to be made using SMS (short message service) technology, which is the basis for text messaging on cell phones and other mobile devices. Tweets can also be posted online at twitter.com. As of January 2010, … . . . → Read More: What is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It.
By Dr. M, on August 30th, 2010 4 comments Oil Spills, Scientist! BP, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, NSF, Oil Spill Newsweek has a great write up about how independent scientific queries into the Gulf of Mexico are being squashed. Only are few scientists were able to benefit from the National Science Foundation’s 10.2 million dollars in the rapid response research program and conduct independent research. Most research is being conducted by those funded by BP … . . . → Read More: Is Science on the Gulf Oil Spill Skewed?
By Dr. M, on August 30th, 2010 6 comments Environmental Sciences, Natural Disaster, Weather Earl, Hurricane, North Carolina Looks like KZ and I might be getting a visit from Earl later this week. . . . → Read More: A Visit From Earl?
Daniel Brown brought my attention to this Ocean Portal video featuring the Echinoblog’s Chris Mah on the potential impact of oil on the Gulf of Mexico’s marine invertebrates. (The video also features Daniel’s original echinoart!) For more on oil impacts, see Dr Bik’s recent posts on dispersant toxicity. . . . → Read More: Chris Mah on Oil’s Impact on Marine Invertebrates
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 30th, 2010 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Evolution, New Research, Paleobiology Best of Zelnio, China, Crustacea, fossil, Yicaris Finding any new fossil is rare. Finding invertebrate fossils is made even more rare because of the squishy nature of most invertebrates. Sometimes the wandering paleontologist, toiling away with utmost care through dust and debris, can find parts of squishy invertebrates like scolodonts (polychaete jaws), coral rubble, carbonate shell cement, or maybe sea star … . . . → Read More: Yicaris – Progenitor of the Crustacea
By Dr. M, on August 26th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Fish adaptation, benthic boundary layer, Coral, currents, fins, hermaphrodite, pectoral, pelvic, tripod fish One of the denizens of the deep is the 30cm long tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator. This unusual fish is typically found anywhere between 1-5km deep in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific, and western Indian, although future exploration wil likely reveal that is global. First described over a century ago in 1886, the common name comes from the … . . . → Read More: The Fish That Walks on Stilts
In this case a discarded rice cooker or crock pot on the abyss finds a new use as an octopus den! Note the dangling egg cases. Video from the Ocean Drilling Program. Text from their youtube page below: 18 May 2010: At ODP 889 (1256m below the sea surface), we happened upon an abandoned rice cooker … . . . → Read More: Something Old Is New Again
By Dr. M, on August 24th, 2010 5 comments Industry & Government, Microbes, Oil Spills BP, conflict of interest, Gulf of Mexico, microbial, Oil Spill, plume The internets are a buzz with a new paper published in Science. You may recall I covered the new paper by Camilli et al. in Science demonstrating that a deep-water oil plume did exist, conclusively, in Gulf of Mexico at the time the researchers sampled, approximately May-June. One of the interesting findings was that … . . . → Read More: Plumes, Microbes, and Hypoxia…Did, Do, or Will They Exist in the Gulf
What happens when brilliant, motivated people who never sleep don’t have enough to do as it is? They create a very useful and awesome science blogging aggregation website! Needless to say Scienceblogging.org is now my homepage, supplanting Google after Kraken knows how many years. Bora has posted the first edition of what promises to be … . . . → Read More: Portuguese Man-o-Links
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