For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Sunday 11/02 10:40pm Had calzones for lunch. The cooks hard work is much appreciated on board! The boat is exceptionally creaky tonight, must be high swells. Meg, Todd, Peter … . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles III
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By Dr. M, on  September 16th, 2011  One comment  Archaeology, History, and Art, Life At Sea, Vessels and Equipment Ray: A Life Underwater from Danny Cooke. “A rogue with an eye for salvage – and the ladies – Ray: A Life Underwater is an affectionate portrait of one man’s deep sea diving career, told through his extraordinary collection of marine artefacts. Like a modern-day pirate, 75-year-old Ray Ives has been scouring the seabed for … . . . → Read More: TGIF: Ray, A Life Underwater
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 16th, 2011 2 comments Life At Sea, Vessels and Equipment  9/11, evacuation, mariners, New York, rescue, sailors, seafarers Eric Wolff alerted me to this moving documentary on the 500,000 people evacuated by boat from Manhattan on 9/11. From Christopher Mims: In nine hours, boats streaming in from all over the Northeast evacuated 500,000 people trapped on Manhattan Island by the complete shutdown of all trains and bridges in the wake of the fall of … . . . → Read More: 9/11: Largest ever evacuation by boat in history
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Uncategorized alvin, EPR Chronicles, R/V Atlantis For background on the EPR Chronicles, see this post. The expedition was also recorded online at the Field Museum during this time (before science blogs!) and includes dispatches, videos and photos! Saturday 11/01 11:50pm Woke up to being gently rocked by the motion of the boat. It is very easy to sleep to. As soon as I stepped … . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles II
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 15th, 2011 10 comments Climate Change, Opinion, Ramblings communication, Jarrett Byrnes, Myers-Briggs, personality, Scott Richmond This is a guest post that originally appeared as a Facebook conversation between the illustrious Drs. Jarrett Byrnes and Scott Richmond. Scott, Jarrett and I met in college theater and our conversations have only gotten more ridiculous since then. This one was so interesting that I asked to share it as a Deep Sea … . . . → Read More: A scientist and a humanist walk into a bar; or On Myers-Briggs, Climate Science, and Knowledge
By Dr Bik, on September 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill I can’t say its the most captivating document ever produced (unless you’ve got a thing for regulatory practices and safety recommendations), but it is an important document nonetheless: yesterday, the newly renamed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released its “Final Report Regarding the Causes of the April 20,2010 Macondo Well … . . . → Read More: BOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater Horizon
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 14th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Balboa, Cruise, EPR Chronicles, Expedition, Janet Voight, Jim McClain, journal, Panama, R/V Atlantis, Robert Zierenberg, ship, UC Davis In 2003 I received the opportunity of a lifetime to go out to sea for the first time on a major zoological expedition. I was merely an undergraduate, but at 24 – having started college a little later in life – I had an edge over many seniors. Namely, a continuous, unbroken thread of … . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles I
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 14th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Expeditions, Life At Sea, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls deep sea, Field Museum, Hydrothermal Vents, Janet Voight, Mollusc, Wood Dr. Janet Voight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talks about exploring deep sea ecosystems and her research on deep sea marine invertebrates. Many of these images are familiar to me as I was generously invited to participate on a cruise to hydrothermal vents in 2003 by her while I was … . . . → Read More: Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
By para_sight, on September 14th, 2011 3 comments Conferences, Ecology, Education, Environmental Sciences, Expeditions, Fish, Life At Sea, New Research, Vessels and Equipment Aquarius, AZA, Georgia Aquarium, georgia tech, NURC, Reefbase, UNCW The Association of Zoos and Aquariums is holding its annual conference in Atlanta this week (Twitter #AZA2011) and at tonights iceabreaker event at Georgia Aquarium, we’re going to try a live cross to the Aquarius ReefBase habitat off the Florida Keys. ReefBase, which is a NURC and UNCW initiative, is the only underwater lab … . . . → Read More: ReefBase broadcast tonight!
You should head over right now and read “The importance of failure in graduate student training” at Southern Fried Science. Andrew Thaler discusses his very cool new paper on deep-sea fungi. In the paper, he reports that a fungus found in the Pacific are a genetic match to those found in Gulf of Mexico. His … . . . → Read More: The importance of failure in graduate student training at Southern Fried Science
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