Over ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an initiative to document the biodiversity of the oceans. That program, the Census of Marine Life, started in 2000 with the goal “to advance a major new international observational program . . . → Read More: Cataloging Life On the Deep-Sea Floor
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By Dr. M, on  November 23rd, 2009  2 comments  Conservation & Environment, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Organisms, Scientist!, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  abyss, Census of Marine Life, CoML, Seamount, taxonomy By Kevin Zelnio, on October 20th, 2009 One comment Coral, Organisms, Seamount Atlantic, Corner Rise, Eric Heupel, New England, NOAA, Seamount And it only gets worse if our nation’s children, those that will grow up to be future policy-makers and voters when we are all in depends or 6 feet underground, don’t have an appreciation for the ocean and its myriad of issues! Donate NOW to Oceans in the Classrooms! Reject a future of barren . . . → Read More: This is Your Seamounts… On Fishing
By Dr. M, on September 22nd, 2009 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Organisms, Paleobiology, Scientist!, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls abyss, biogeography, canyon, deep sea, geography, landscape diversity, Mosely, Organisms, range size, Seamount, seeps, Trench, vents, volcanic “There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago recognized the deep homothermal sea “As the great highway for animal migration, extending pole to pole” Below 500 fathoms it is everywhere dark and cold, and there are no ridges . . . → Read More: Biogeography of the Deep Sea
If there was a mountain in your backyard with no name, how long do you think it would stay that way? Not very long. Some intrepid explorer would climb it, map it, and name it. In the ocean, though, many mountains are unnamed, and unexplored. There was a time when I lived in Los Angeles . . . → Read More: Northeast Pacific Seamount Map: a Gift that Keeps Giving
By Dr. M, on August 5th, 2009 3 comments Expeditions, Geology, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Expedition, lava, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, ridge, Seamount, Volcano Myself and Chris Mah (from Echinoblog) will particpating in Leg 5 of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s expedition ot the northern Pacific. Leg 5 of the expedition focuses on sampling lava flows that erupted during historic time on the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Mid-Ocean Ridges, and comparing them with the surrounding, older . . . → Read More: 2009 Pacific Northwest Expedition
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 25th, 2009 Leave a comment Coral, Expeditions, Seamount CenSeam, Di Tracey, Graveyard, NIWA Its summertime folks, and it seems like everyone is either heading out to sea, or returning from a recent expedition. If not that, its a conference. Craig reported last week from Evolution 2009, and Kevin’s off to a meeting for the Biogeography of Chemosythetic Ecosystems (ChEss) in Japan. I’m still stuck here in Texas writing . . . → Read More: Ready for another expedition?
By Dr. M, on May 12th, 2009 3 comments Geology, New Research, Pictures and Movies, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls National Geographic, Rota-1, video, Volcano When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the volcano has been growing considerably in the last three years. Chadwick says the volcano has expanded 131 feet in height and nearly a thousand feed in width, about as . . . → Read More: Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano
By Dr. M, on February 27th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biology, Expeditions, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seamount Seamount, video The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently unleashed their new YouTube Channel. Of course it features Macropinna but you can also see Humboldt squid. A new video (below) on Davidson Seamount that discusses research I have been involved with was just uploaded today. . . . → Read More: MBARI YouTube Channel
By Dr. M, on February 19th, 2009 14 comments Conservation & Environment, Coral, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Organisms, Seamount conservation, Coral, Invertebrate, Open Access, plos one, Seamount, sponge Image credit: (c) 2006 MBARI / NOAA These this photograph shows three different types of sponges growing on the lava of Davidson Seamount: large yellow sponges, white frilly sponges, and white filamentous sponges which were previously thought to be a type of coral. The large yellow sponge provides a perch for several basket stars and . . . → Read More: Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 12th, 2009 Leave a comment Organisms, Seamount, Vessels and Equipment Baja, DeepSee, fishing, Scripps, submersible DeepSee submersible, a 3 man HOV depth rated to 475 m Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and remote sites seamounts off the coast of Baja California. They report that life is abundant, but the impacts of . . . → Read More: Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California
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