Remember the Donor’s Choose campaign? Remember how I offered AMAZING PRIZES to a lucky randomly selected donor? I haven’t forgotten – just got a bit swamped with work and travel. We’re only $171 away from buying a some awesome sea life for this low-income classroom in Utah – donate through Friday and be eligible … . . . → Read More: Two opportunities to make science awesome and WIN PRIZES!
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  November 15th, 2011  3 comments  Carnivals & Link Love, Education  #SciFund, crowdfunding, Donor's Choose By Kevin Zelnio, on November 15th, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vents, Neptune Canada, pycnogonid, sea spider, time lapse Our friends at Neptune Canada have posted this time-lapse video on their Youtube Page. Note the zillions of sea spiders (Pycnogonids), this is a feature of the Northwest Pacific vent province, we rarely see so many pycnogonids at other vents around the world. Sea spiders, tubeworms, scaleworms, limpets and snails crawl about in a hot … . . . → Read More: What 1 hour of Deep-Sea Vent Life Looks Like in 2 Minutes
By Miriam Goldstein, on November 14th, 2011 One comment Opinion, Scientist! advice, career, graduate school, Marine Biologist, undergraduates When I wrote my So You Want to Be a Marine Biologist post yesterday, I had totally forgotten about Dr. M’s excellent take on more or less the same issue. It’s especially embarrassing since apparently I both commented and linked to it from my old blog. Sorry, Craigie M. His post, entitled So You Want to … . . . → Read More: Repost: So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea Biologist
By Miriam Goldstein, on November 13th, 2011 25 comments Opinion, Scientist! advice, career, graduate school, Marine Biologist, marine biology, Research, REU, undergraduates ARRRRR ME HEARTIES!!!! So ye want t’ be a pirate, t’ sail the open sea searching for booty – what? You said a marine biologist? Oh. Well, sailing the open sea searching for booty is actually prohibited by UNOLS regulations – what? Oh, you wanted advice on how to BECOME a marine biologist. All … . . . → Read More: So You Want to Be A Marine Biologist: Deep Sea News Edition
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 11th, 2011 One comment Deep Sea Music, TGIF: Pictures & Movies The Creepshow There is much awesomesauce and badassery fit into a 3 and half minute package. . . . → Read More: TGIF – Pirate-Shark-Surfing-Undead Music Video by The Creepshow
Al might be keeping it classy on TGIF with some wonderful underwater footage, but here in New Hampshire, I’m stuck in an empty office revising a manuscript while everyone else it out enjoying Veteran’s Day. Hence I have been procrastinating on the interwebz, and was referred to this (by) catch-y rap (HA!) via twitter: Note: … . . . → Read More: TGIF – Overfishing Rap
By para_sight, on November 11th, 2011 Leave a comment Fish, Megavertebrate, TGIF: Pictures & Movies angelfish, Gulf of California, manta ray, Mexico I just wanted to share some nice footage from Mexico showing a group of clarion agenlfish (Holacanthus clarionensis) cleaning a manta ray that comes within sight of their home reef. It shows that Labroides isn’t the only important cleaner fish, especially when it comes to big pelagics. Clarion angels are listed by IUCN as vulnerable, … . . . → Read More: TGIF – a clarion call for manta rays
By para_sight, on November 10th, 2011 16 comments Books/Media, Education social media, software, video game Try to imagine a virtual ocean, an online watery world divided into discrete ecosystems, each populated with semi-autonomous avatars of every marine species that lives there. Each mammal, fish, shark, sponge and coral, created by a digital artist, set loose with a set of naturalistic behaviours programmed in. That is the audacious goal of a … . . . → Read More: Into TheBlu, virtually
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2011 One comment Carnivals & Link Love #SciFund, Circus of the Spineless Welcome the 67th edition of the Circus of the Spineless! It is my distinct honor and privilege to highlight the stars of this here traveling roadshow for the month of October in the year 2011. I hope you can all sit back and enjoy the amusement! Watch in the deep, dark chamber of doom as … . . . → Read More: Circus of the Spineless #67
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 10th, 2011 2 comments Archaeology, History, and Art, Deep Sea Music Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot, Great Lakes, shipwreck I am reminded today on gCaptain that today is the anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The above excellent song is a story about the event by folk legend Gordon Lightfoot, who recollected that he felt this was his greatest contribution to music. Indeed, the public agreed with him and, despite the … . . . → Read More: “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead”: RIP Edmund Fitzgerald
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