And here is an example of plastic entering the marine food web I had not thought of. BTW that’s a California Sea Lion but feel free to correct if this a mollusk specialist has this wrong. Ooooh, Whats This Thingy Do? – Neatorama.
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By Dr Bik, on  October 5th, 2012  One comment  Pictures and Movies, Reviews  genomics, high-throughput sequencing, marine music, metagenomics, Microbes Bringing you some awesome ocean sounds this Friday–nope, not crashing waves or squawking seagulls (boo hiss for vertebrates). These sounds come from MICROBES! Peter Larsen and colleagues at Argonne National Lab (home of the gargantuan Earth Microbiome Project) have turned their huge DNA sequence datasets into music. Listen to the jazzy samplings below (video), and . . . → Read More: TGIF: Some Friday jazz, courtesy of marine microbes
By Miriam Goldstein, on September 15th, 2012 4 comments Music, Pictures and Movies Gump Station, Mo'orea, Music Video, UNH It’s Saturday, 105 degrees in San Diego, I’m 100 yards from the beach, and I am in front of my computer typing away. OH THE GLAMOUR. Fortunately both you and I can live vicariously through this fine music video from the marine scientists working out of the Gump Station on the French Polynesian island of . . . → Read More: Marine biologist vs. oceanographer music video SHOWDOWN
Put it on 720, go full screen and relax… By Miriam Goldstein, on September 9th, 2012 One comment Pictures and Movies Mark Bertness, Music Video, salt marsh Mark Bertness’ salt marsh ecology lab at Brown University has a lengthy academic family tree – and in fact your friendly ocean bloggers Jarrett Byrnes, John Bruno, and yours truly are little twigs on it. So with that in mind, please enjoy this truly epic science music video from the latest Bertnessians, with a special . . . → Read More: Sunday happiness: the Bertness Rock Anthem
The largest octopus is the Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini. According to data from a 1987 Masters Thesis from J.A. Cosgrove, the Pacific Giant Ocotopus can reach a weight of over 150 pounds (>70kg). Our friend Jason Bradley, underwater photographer extraordinaire and honorary DSN photographer (post, post, post, post) captured this amazing shot at . . . → Read More: Giant Pacific Octopus!
Two of my favorite things, Cypress Hill and Squids, together at last. During experiments on the axons of the Woods Hole squid (Loligo pealei), we tested our cockroach leg stimulus protocol on the squid’s chromatophores. The results were both interesting and beautiful. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the . . . → Read More: Insane In the Chromatophores
By Miriam Goldstein, on August 15th, 2012 3 comments Pictures and Movies funny, horrifying planet, planet earth, The Onion, tidepools Oh, the Onion. How we love you. (H/t Jarrett Byrnes). By Miriam Goldstein, on August 3rd, 2012 9 comments Pictures and Movies Aerial Photo, Blue Whale, Eddie Kisfaludy, poop Behold! The biggest poop on earth! Well, we don’t actually know if it’s the actual biggest poop, but it is a poop that came out of the biggest animal ever to exist on Earth. The majestic poop of the mighty blue whale! Photo by Eddie Kisfaludy. This photo was taken from a small plane off . . . → Read More: TGIF: The Biggest Poop On Earth (possibly)
Spider Crab feasts on the remains of a fish (Depth: 2229 m) Observation : 7282, 2012-06-15 00:07:11UTC, 1564. N47°55.9909′, W129°5.9243′ Credit: NEPTUNE Canada/CSSF Neptune Canada, the world’s first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory network that plugs directly into the Internet, has an excellent Flickr photostream of deep-sea beasties. A close up on the legs on the . . . → Read More: Life on the Leg of a Crab
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