Preface: After several beers at DSN central. Dr. M and I decided this needed to be reposted. Don’t ask questions. Just read it and enjoy :) Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal . . . → Read More: Repost: Hydromedusae Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  May 22nd, 2011  Leave a comment  Adaptations, Conservation & Environment, Evolution By Dr. M, on May 19th, 2011 13 comments Bringin' It, Geology  Earth, eon, Geology, Geozoic, origns, supereon, time The largest unit of defined geologic time is the supereon. Only one is defined, the Precambrian spanning from the formation of the Earth to right before life goes crazy in the Cambrian explosion (4.6 billion years ago to 542 million years ago). Oddly, there is no other supereon after the Precambrian, just the Phanerozoic eon . . . → Read More: On the Reasons Why We Need A New Supereon
By para_sight, on May 19th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, Fish, Megavertebrate, Uncategorized manta, Metabolism, physiology, rays, shark, tuna Driving through more remote parts of the Australian countryside when I was a young tacker, my Dad would often stop the old Mazda Capella so that we kids could investigate some reptilian thing warming itself on the black road surface; it was usually a fat shingleback or bombastic blue tongue, but sometimes a lovely red-bellied . . . → Read More: A bunch of hot heads
Hans Fricke may not be a familiar name to you. His voice was never auto tuned into a pop hit, he did not make a list of the top ten running backs of all time, and you will not see his fashion collection in Milan. No his contributions to society are greater. Fricke has . . . → Read More: From The Editor’s Desk: The Secret Life of the Coelacanth
World Oceans Day – June 8 – is creeping up on us once again and this year’s seems to have special significance, since it comes a year after the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill. One of the bigger celebrations of WOD will be at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC (10th St. and Constitution Ave), . . . → Read More: World Oceans Day events at the Smithsonian
Readers may recall me be posting about NESCent’s Darwin Day Road Show. Miller-McCune graciously allowed me to write up the experience for them. Please take some time and read the piece. It gives hope for the future of science in the United States. A posse of evolutionary scientists traveled to the heart of America to . . . → Read More: Scientists Take Darwin on the Road
And more in hydrothermal vent news… Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made by the research team in three years, which suggests that deep-sea vents may be more common in our . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea Vents Discovered In Southern Ocean
By Dr. M, on May 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls carbon cycle, Hydrothermal Vent, iron, nanoparticles, phytoplankton, plankton, production A nice little paper in Nature Geoscience that helps reconcile iron budgets for the word’s oceans. The hot, mineral rich water that spews from hydrothermal vents contains a significant amount of fool’s gold, or iron pyrite. Because iron pyrite is more resistant to rusting than basic iron and much of the iron pyrite venting is nanoparticles, they . . . → Read More: Fool’s Gold from Hydrothermal Vents to Plankton
By para_sight, on May 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Books/Media, Conservation & Environment, Opinion Amazon, Book Reviews, Ecology, Rivers I reckon one of the best parts of planning any trip is the book time you spend brushing up on your destination. I loved Diego de Landa’s “Yucatan Before and After the Conquest“, which I read in Mexico last year while doing field work in that spectacular peninsula. So it is that I come to . . . → Read More: Twofer book review from the Amazon (the river, not the website)
By Dr Bik, on May 14th, 2011 One comment Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls 16S, archaea, Bacteria, DNA, high-throughput sequencing, hydrotermal vent, Lost City, Microbes, rRNA I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people, its going to be like the renaissance of 21st century science – you heard it here first!) As a follow up to my previous post, I wanted to highlight this . . . → Read More: Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea
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