He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world-Horace It is good to carry some powered rouge in one’s sleeve. It may happen that when one is sobering up or waking from sleep, his complexion may be poor. At such a time it is good to take out and . . . → Read More: Samurai and Deep-Sea Loricifera Should Use More Rouge
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By Dr. M, on  April 13th, 2010  5 comments  Adaptations, Biology, New Research, Open Access, Organisms  anaerobic, anoxic, Loricifera, Mediterranean, mitochondria, oxgyen, RB Editor's Selection By Dr. M, on October 26th, 2009 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Industry & Government, Natural Disaster, New Research, Organisms anoxic, dead zone, hypoxia, NSF, Oregon, oxygen In 2008, I wrote that about a paper by Chan et al. in Science examining the anoxic zone emerging off the Oregon coast. It was the first study to quantitatively assess the condition. Chan et al. found that from 2000-2005, hypoxic (low oxygen conditions) extended to shallow water but always remained above 0.5 ml/L. In . . . → Read More: Dead Zones Are Here To Stay
By Dr. M, on October 5th, 2009 4 comments Adaptations, Biology, Cephalopods, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Organisms, Paleobiology anoxic, Antarctica, biogeography, bivalve, Cenozoic, circulation, climate chagne, Coral, Cretaceous, deep sea, density, echinoderms, echinoids, Eocene, evolution, extinction, foram, Gastropod, global thermohaline circulation, hypoxia, isopod, Miocene, oceanography, octopod, Oligocene, origination, oxygen, Paleobiology, Paleocene, Salinity, Temperature, Triassic If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development. –Aristotle To understand the biogeography of the modern deep sea, we must examine the history of the ocean floor and the establishment of deep-sea fauna. The paleoceanography of the deep-sea is an account of intense fluctuations in temperature, oxygen, and circulation. In the past . . . → Read More: The Origins of Deep-Sea Fauna
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2009 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls anoxic, brine, Gulf of Mexico, Metabolism, methane, Microbe, microbial, National Science Foundation, noxious, oil and gas, origins of life, primordial, seep, Texas A&M University, University of Georgia A mineral chimney and microbe mats on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. Mineral chimneys are associated with sea vents that release oil and gas. The microbe mats are lying on sediments next to the mineral chimney. Credit: Ian MacDonald, Texas A&M University …takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have . . . → Read More: Thriving In Extreme Conditions
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