In a very generous online experiment, science writer and blogger at Wired Science David Dobbs, is putting up his entire book Reef Madness in small chunks on his blog Neuron Culture. Here at Neuron Culture I’m going to serially publish significant chunks of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of … . . . → Read More: Reef Madness!
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  May 31st, 2011  One comment  Archaeology, History, and Art, Books/Media, Coral  Charles Darwin, Coral, David Dobbs, Louis Agassiz, Reef Madness By Dr. M, on May 31st, 2011 2 comments Vessels and Equipment Aqualung, Jacques Cousteau, regulator, scuba diving Last Saturday, I spend the day diving at Fantasy Lake. I enjoyed two dives at 40-50 feet in the old quarry exploring a rock crusher, a metrobus, an airplane, and a glassbottom boat. I also spent the second dive observing several green sunfish and striped bass. The real treat was diving with a vintage early … . . . → Read More: Diving With A Vintage Aqualung
A few weeks back I was speaking to youngsters up in the Big Apple about evolution and marine biology . A few nights prior being the geek I am, I perused a city comic book shop with my friend Courtney and our significant others. Imagine my glee, when I beheld the Aquaman Bobblehead. This … . . . → Read More: Aquaman In A NYC Taxi
By Dr Bik, on May 28th, 2011 3 comments Evolution, Fish, New Research DNA, genome, Little Skate, model organism This past week I was visiting the University of Delaware to attend the 3rd Skate Genome Annotation workshop, sponsored by the IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Program from the National Center of Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health. As the title suggests, we’re looking at real data from the genome project … . . . → Read More: Assembling the Little Skate Genome
By para_sight, on May 28th, 2011 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, New Research, Open Access Genetics, Reproduction, whale shark Jenny Schmidt from U. Illinois and her co-authors have uncovered a fascinating nugget of biology of the whale shark in a recent (and Open Access – w00t!) paper in Endangered Species Research. In it, they continue the analysis of embryos collected from a heavily pregnant female first reported by Joung et al. (1996) in … . . . → Read More: Who’s your daddy?
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 27th, 2011 3 comments Deep Sea Music, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Dashboard, Modest Mouse, Music Thanks Aeolius! . . . → Read More: TGIF: Modest Mouse on the High Seas
For me DSN is not nearly enough deep sea on the web. Thankfully Save the Deep Sea Blog from the Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) is now here. Make sure you add this to your RSS feeds, Google Reader, Bookmarks, and tattoo the url on your arm so you are never without it. DSCC is a global coalition … . . . → Read More: Welcome To Interwebs Save the Deep Sea Blog
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 24th, 2011 6 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Deep Sea 101 Aegean Sea, Azoic Hypothesis, Best of Zelnio, Charles Darwin, Edward Forbes, GC Wallich, HMS Alexander, HMS Bulldog, HMS Isabella, James Clark Ross, John Ross, Michael Sars, North Atlantic, Northwest Passage, Thomas H. Huxley ←Previous Lesson: Early Paradigms and Exploration Edward Forbes spent his life championing a hypothesis whose evidence was flawed and extrapolations unjustified. The idea of a lifeless deep-sea held sway in a society mystified by the unknown and afraid of what it would hold. Forbes was the scientist-manifestation of this fear and never would concede the … . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life Ignored
If you live in central Florida and have an interest in marine life, come and hear my wife and I discuss Sex in the Oceans at a public lecture this Wednesday evening at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Ft Pierce. There will be an abundance of sexy sea slugs, debauched dolphins, kinky Minke whales … . . . → Read More: Just a, er, quickie
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment Art, Expeditions Australia, Dhugal Lindsay, JOIDES Resolution, Mesopelagic Zone, Picasso, Sarah McNaboe, Scientific Illustration A nice 5 minute podcast and article about new research in the twilight zone off of Australia! Using a one of a kind remotely operated vehicle (ROV) named Picasso the team explored the mesopelagic zone, 200 to 1000 metres below sea level between the reef and the deep sea. The two and a half … . . . → Read More: Dhugal’s Deep Sea Wonders and Expedition Art Aboard the JOIDES
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