←Previous Lesson: Early Paradigms and Exploration Edward Forbes spent his life championing a hypothesis whose evidence was flawed and extrapolations unjustified. The idea of a lifeless deep-sea held sway in a society mystified by the unknown and afraid of what it would hold. Forbes was the scientist-manifestation of this fear and never would concede the . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Forbes’ Folly – Evidence of Deep Sea Life Ignored
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  May 24th, 2011  6 comments  Social Sciences  Aegean Sea, Azoic Hypothesis, Best of Zelnio, Charles Darwin, Edward Forbes, GC Wallich, HMS Alexander, HMS Bulldog, HMS Isabella, James Clark Ross, John Ross, Michael Sars, North Atlantic, Northwest Passage, Thomas H. Huxley By Kevin Zelnio, on April 17th, 2011 7 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
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 24th, 2011 11 comments Social Sciences Aegean Sea, Aristotle, Azoic Hypothesis, Best of Zelnio, chlorophyll, currents, deep sea, Dredge, Edward Forbes, exploration, Pliny the Elder, Primary Production, Robert Hooke, Socrates ←Previous Lesson: Lessons from the Census of Marine Life While the Census of Marine Life may be the most recent call to survey the ocean, deep-sea exploration has a rich, paradigm-shifting history. It has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster: colorful characters, high seas action, the drama of antagonistic actions between “men of honor”, . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Early Paradigms and Exploration
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 12th, 2011 3 comments Evolution, Social Sciences Archetype, Barnacle, Best of Zelnio, Charles Darwin, Cirripedes, Cryptophialus, Darwin, Darwin Day, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Hermaphroditism, HMS Beagle, Homology, John Hooker, Lamarck, Mr. Arthrobalanus, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, taxonomy, Vestiges, Zoonomia This post was based on a talk I gave for Darwin Day last year at the Duke Marine Lab. Reposting in honor of Darwin Day. Enjoy your day and make sure you take a walk in the woods and enjoy nature’s splendor in honor one of biology’s main men today! —————————————- As part of Darwin . . . → Read More: Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved Barnacles
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 8th, 2011 9 comments Editor's Desk Best of Zelnio, Science Communication, Steven Johnson, TED Talks We seem to be constantly evaluating how well are doing communicating science, as well we should! Good scientists need to be introspective to some extent and consistently give themselves a reality check. That is, in essence, how science works as a process. We accept or refute a hypothesis based on evidence, fine tune it or . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: Communicating At, To Or With People?
By Kevin Zelnio, on February 6th, 2011 7 comments Uncategorized Animals Oceanographers, Best of Zelnio, Census of Marine Life, CoML, Crabeater Seal, Elephant Seal, HMAP, OBIS, RB Editor's Selection, seal, Swordfish, taxonomy ←Previous lesson: Introduction and What Is the Deep Sea? Click image to go to Census of Marine Life! Last week we kicked off our online class with an introduction to the deep sea environment. Before we continue on to spend a bit of time talking about the history of deep-sea exploration, I want to discuss . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Lessons from the Census of Marine Life
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 26th, 2011 23 comments Uncategorized Best of Zelnio, deep sea, Habitat, seafloor This semester I am teaching a full on lecture course in Deep Sea Biology at my institution. It is a great opportunity for me and am very thankful that I can be at an institution that would enthusiastically give a PhD student this opportunity to freely develop this course how I wish. I am 2 . . . → Read More: Deep Sea 101: Introduction and What Is the Deep Sea?
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 24th, 2011 26 comments Adaptations, Editor's Desk, Fish, Fishing Best of Zelnio, carbon dioxide, climate change, CO2, fisheries, ocean acidification, pH, physiology Anthropogenic climate change has been hypothesized for centuries (discussed in Le Treut 2007) before the careful measurements of scientists in the mid-20th century. From 1833 to 1997, Stanhill (2001) calculated that the climate change science doubled every 11 years. The impact of carbon dioxide concentrations in the ocean was recognized early on with measurements and . . . → Read More: From the Editor’s Desk: The Grand Challenge of Ocean Acidification and Fisheries
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 10th, 2011 3 comments Adaptations, Evolution, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Barnacle, Best of Zelnio, Darwin, evolution, Hydrothermal Vent, Morphology, Phylogenetics, shell, Stalked Barnacle, Systematics, taxonomy Lepas anatifera from Washington state, USA. Photo credit: David Cowles 1997. Barnacle evolution was recently rewritten by a large effort of Perez-Losada and colleagues in 2008. Using a combination of genes and morphological traits they rejected some of the ideas that were foundational to barnacle biology and taxonomy, while giving new support for other . . . → Read More: Barnacle Evolution I: Phylogeny Served Without Plates
By Kevin Zelnio, on December 17th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Evolution, New Research, New Species, Organisms Best of Zelnio, bone, MBARI, Nutrition, Osedax, Radula, Rubyspira, Trophic Ecology, Whale Fall You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way back in the 2000s. Now though, all the rage is the BONE SNAIL! Yeah, that’s right the BoNe SnAiL!!! Its cooler than cool, just trust me. The Bone Snail is . . . → Read More: Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
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