Lumber ships under tow at Grays Harbor, 1890s. Courtesy UW Special Collections. Its been a long time since I put up any original music. Here is one I got around to finishing tonight. Its a bit rough around the edges, especially the acoustic guitar dub over, but I was too lazy to redo it after . . . → Read More: Kiss of a Cold Ocean
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  October 5th, 2009  Leave a comment  Music  California, Music, Puget Sound, Safety, Sailing, Song, Transportation By Dr. M, on September 27th, 2009 16 comments Adaptations, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species, Organisms Baja, California, Chimaera, claspers, Elasmobranchia, genitals, ghostshark, Holocephali, sex, sexual organ, shark The Eastern Pacific black ghostshark (Hydrolagus melanophasma), a new species from California and Baja California, not taunting other marine life with its retractable forehead genitalia. Credit: MBARI Chimaeras are sharks much cooler cousins. They are not sharks, i.e. elasmobranchs, but rather a whole other subclass, Holocephali, that split from sharks nearly 400 mya. They are . . . → Read More: Another Species With Forehead Sexual Organs
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 1st, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Plastic California, j nichols, Plastic, trash Click on picture to go to the CA Coastal Cleanup Day homepage. In 18 days it will be the 25th anniversary of the California Coastal Cleanup Day. If you need a reason to participate, conservationist J. Nichols gives us reason #1: “Once I put a plastic bag into a jar of water and passed it . . . → Read More: Reminder: California Coastal Cleanup Day
By Dr. M, on August 18th, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, California, EOS, Geology, hydrate, Hydrothermal Vent, landslide, methane, minerals, New Hampshire, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, plume A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
By Peter Etnoyer, on July 21st, 2009 2 comments Gadgets & Gear, New Research, Organisms California, Edie Widder, Eye In The Sea, Monterey, Monterey Canyon, whalefall The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will be freshly baited with a frozen sea lion carcass in a camera deployment set for August 14th, in the deep Monterey Canyon. Mark your calendars and tune in to the Ocean Research Conservation Organization (ORCA) website for updates on the event. The ever fascinating Dr. Edie Widder, the ORCA President, . . . → Read More: Eye in the Sea camera to feature CarcassVision
By Dr. M, on July 20th, 2009 13 comments Cephalopods, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms Architeuthis, California, Docidicus gigas, fail, Giant Squid, Humboldt Squid, media, press Point 1: The Giant Squid is Architeuthis dux. The Humboldt (or the Red Devil or Jumbo) Squid is Dosidicus gigas Point 2: The Humboldt Squid while large at ~2m in length and 45kg is not as large as the Giant Squid at 10-14m in length and 200-300kg. Point 3: The Humboldt Squid can be found . . . → Read More: Squid Fail
By Peter Etnoyer, on June 8th, 2009 14 comments Uncategorized Bob Breen, California, Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council, Fish and Game Commission, North Central Coast Regional Stakeholders Group, World Ocean Day To celebrate World Ocean Day, Deep Sea News is publishing an unsolicited letter from a reader, Bob Breen. We’re thankful that our community is the kind of people willing to share their opinion about respect for the oceans, and we’re pleased to publish your letters. Giant black sea bass, protected in CA since 1982 . . . → Read More: World Ocean Day Message from Bob Breen
By Dr. M, on March 23rd, 2009 One comment Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms Alfred Hitchcocks, algae, benthic, California, deep sea, diatom, Disturbance, domoic acid, Environmental Issues, flux, memory loss, neurotoxic, oyster, particles, poisoning, sediment trap, shellfish, surface production, The Birds Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep
By Dr. M, on June 16th, 2008 6 comments Reviews Barnes & Noble, California, COSMOS, Editor, Giant Isopod, Greenland, Isopoda, Linda Zelnio COSMOS magazine touts itself as the providing the “Science of Everything”. The last issue (21) seems to deliver with articles on space elevators, Greenland’s ice sheet, Pioneer, artificial intelligence, marine protected areas, California ground squirrel, scientific ballooning, and more. On page 26 and 27 is my favorite article…but I might be biased since I . . . → Read More: The Science of Everything and Giant Isopods
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