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
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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 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
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
By Dr. M, on July 18th, 2011 2 comments Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Mining, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vent, mining, Papua New Guinea The PNG Mine Watch blog posts some unfortunate news today about mining the hydrothermal vents of the PNG coast at the Solwara 1 site. Papua New Guinea’s Mining Minister, John Pundari told Nautilus chief executive officer Steve Roger that the PNG government was fully committed to supporting the project as indicated through its decision to . . . → Read More: Mining The Deep: All About $ For the Government
And more in hydrothermal vent news… Scientists aboard the Royal Research Ship James Cook have discovered a new set of deep-sea volcanic vents in the chilly waters of the Southern Ocean. The discovery is the fourth made by the research team in three years, which suggests that deep-sea vents may be more common in our . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea Vents Discovered In Southern Ocean
By Dr. M, on May 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls carbon cycle, Hydrothermal Vent, iron, nanoparticles, phytoplankton, plankton, production A nice little paper in Nature Geoscience that helps reconcile iron budgets for the word’s oceans. The hot, mineral rich water that spews from hydrothermal vents contains a significant amount of fool’s gold, or iron pyrite. Because iron pyrite is more resistant to rusting than basic iron and much of the iron pyrite venting is nanoparticles, they . . . → Read More: Fool’s Gold from Hydrothermal Vents to Plankton
By Dr Bik, on May 14th, 2011 One comment Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls 16S, archaea, Bacteria, DNA, high-throughput sequencing, hydrotermal vent, Lost City, Microbes, rRNA I recently reported on the awesomeness of high-throughput sequencing technologies, and commented on their huge potential for transforming the way biologists do business. (Seriously, people, its going to be like the renaissance of 21st century science – you heard it here first!) As a follow up to my previous post, I wanted to highlight this . . . → Read More: Predicting Microbial Communities in the Deep-sea
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 17th, 2011 6 comments Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Adrian Glover, Best of Zelnio, bone, Bone Worm, Colonization, Craig Smith, deep sea, dwarf male, fish, Greg Rouse, Habitat, Life History, lipid, Monterey Canyon, Nutrition, Osedax, Robert Vrijenhoek, Whale Fall We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago and much work on their reproduction, evolution and ecology has yielded incredible insights into a unique and bizarre way of life! Early on, Osedax was only found on whale bones . . . → Read More: Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
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