An area the size of a coffee table on the deep-sea floor would yield hundreds of species. A few species would dominate with numbers in the 10-100′s. Yet most would be rare represented by a single lone individual. These latter species are the “rare biosphere” and one of the most conspicuous phenomena of the deep . . . → Read More: Great Abyssal Diversity Among the Microscopic
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By Dr. M, on  January 19th, 2010  One comment  Ecology, Microbes, New Research, Organisms  abyss, donuts, Microbe, microbial, operational taxonomic unit, Organisms, rare biosphere 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 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
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
By Dr. M, on August 11th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biology, Fish, New Research, Organisms, Uncategorized abyss, carbon cycle, detritus, echinoderm, fatty acid, food web, grenadier, lipid, macrourids, marine snow, Pacific, predator, prey, rattail, Scavenger, Station M., trophic Photo courtesy of MBARI. Coryphaenoides acrolepis in Monterey Canyon. Rattail fish are caught and sold under the more palatable name, “grenadier.” However, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program recommends that consumers do not purchase or eat grenadier because the fish grow very slowly and may not reproduce until they are 30 or 40 years . . . → Read More: Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
By Dr. M, on July 6th, 2009 2 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Organisms abyss, abyssal plain, deep sea, echinoderm, Gastropod, parasites, Sea Cucumber, sea pig Dr. Mah direct quoate, “Small snails (genus Stilapex) that work their way into the body wall and suck on their juices!! So, what's weirder then sea pigs??? SEA PIG SNAIL PARASITES!!!!” Photo from Australian R/V Tangaroa weekly log Everything you ever wanted to know about sea pigs (Holothuroidea: Scotoplanes sp.) from the Echinoblog. The best . . . → Read More: Sea Pigs
By Dr. M, on May 12th, 2009 4 comments New Research, Organisms, Scientist! abyss, Census of Marine Life, deep-sea biologist, Friday Harbor, Organisms [googlemap lat="48.532975799741635" lng="-123.01666259765625" width="400px" height="300px" zoom="11" type="G_HYBRID_MAP"]48.532976,-123.016663[/googlemap] This week finds me for the first time in Friday Harbor. This week I am meeting with 19 other deep-sea biologist, a who’s who, of experts on the abyssal plains. We are here this week to combine our data, our knowledge, and our passion to uncover both patterns . . . → Read More: Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life
By Dr. M, on May 3rd, 2009 4 comments Uncategorized abyss, Calvin Klein, color, fashion, fashion show, hair, makeup, models, runway, runway model Let’s face it Deep-Sea News is a triple threat of colours, couture and coiffure. Finally, the fashion world is catching on. Of all the planets in our solar system, ours alone is covered in a life-giving, liquid blanket of blue. It is out of these depths that Abyss, Proctor & Gamble’s biggest fashion trend predicted . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea News, Now More Fashionable Than Ever
By Peter Etnoyer, on April 3rd, 2009 6 comments Organisms, Pictures and Movies abyss, echinoblog, echinoderm, elasopodid, herd, holothurian, Jonathan Wojcik, Ken Smith, MBARI Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, northeast Atlantic. They occur in high densities over large areas (Smith et al. 1997). Yes, but, where are they going? They’re up to something, for . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
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