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! Wednesday 11/12/03 3:00 am The stauromedusae are amazing me more and more each time I look at them in the video! I think there are some genetic variations . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VIII
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  September 20th, 2011  Leave a comment  Expeditions, Life At Sea  alvin, EPR Chronicles 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! Tuesday 11/11/03, 3:50am We are at 9°N latitude and the fauna here is significantly more abundant & diverse. The vents here are black smokers. The black smoke . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VII
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 19th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls EPR Chronicles, Plankton Tow, Sea Squirts, Tunicate 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 11/10 2:20 am Today was a little less stressful. I overslept and missed breakfast at 7:30 am & science meeting at 10:30 am. but I owke . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles VI
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls alvin, Andesite, EPR Chronicles, SeaBeam, seafloor, TowCam 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 11/08 1:30am Been a while since I made an entry. We were on station at 8°37′N and its been really busy, but real fun and exciting. . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles V
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 17th, 2011 One comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls EPR Chronicles 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! Tuesday 11/04 10:45pm There were 2 egrets outside today. A rather rare occurrence since they occur on shores & streams as wading birds. There were a couple . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles IV
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, . . . → Read More: The EPR Chronicles III
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 . . . → Read More: 9/11: Largest ever evacuation by boat in history
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 failures . . . → 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 merely . . . → Read More: Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
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