eBay’s history is dotted with carcasses of endangered and vulnerable species. In 2000, the Sea Turtle Conservancy announced that a large selection of illegal hawksbill turtle shell products were available on the online auction site. “On Jan. 6, about about 50 genuine tortoise shell items were listed for sale through ebay, said Gary Appelson, advocacy . . . → Read More: Finding Endangered Life on eBay
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By Dr. M, on  May 7th, 2012  2 comments  Biodiversity, Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Fishing, Industry & Government  auction, black coral, CITES, Coral, ebay, endangered, vulnerable By para_sight, on March 23rd, 2012 Leave a comment Adaptations, Biodiversity, Coral, Fish, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Uncategorized bleaching, blennies, Coral, coral bleaching, coral reefs, feeding Exallias brevis male My good colleague Dr. Bruce Carlson just uploaded a very nice short YouTube video about a reef blenny called Exallias brevis. Exallias is fairly special (but by no means unique) not just because it’s quite the looker, but because it is a coral predator. Like many blennies it has a mouth that . . . → Read More: TGIF – Exallias brevis, a very special fish
By Dr Bik, on February 10th, 2012 4 comments Books/Media, TGIF: Pictures & Movies clothes, Coral, fashion, marine, ocean, tgif, vogue …BECAUSE I AM!!! Yes, I am yelling this from the mountaintops: I cannot wait to shed my drab winter wardrobe and move on to Spring/Summer 2012 collections. Finally, my fashion obsession is perfectly appropriate for a blog post at #DeepSN. This season the runways were flooded (ha!) with ocean-themed prints and marine-inspired design: Coral Reef . . . → Read More: ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT YOUR SPRING WARDROBE YET??
By Dr Bik, on January 6th, 2012 2 comments TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Uncategorized Art, Coral, fashion, Kraken, nematode, squid, tgif I’ve been suspiciously quiet on the blogging front lately. The reason: I’ve just completed a cross-country move in the middle of the holiday season (its my second 3000+ mile move in <2 years, but that is another rant for another day). I’ve fled the snowy winters of New Hampshire to take up shop in Jonanthan . . . → Read More: TGIF: Friday Fashion Finds
By Kevin Zelnio, on May 31st, 2011 One comment Archaeology, History, and Art, Books/Media, Coral Charles Darwin, Coral, David Dobbs, Louis Agassiz, Reef Madness In a very generous online experiment, science writer and blogger at Wired Science David Dobbs, is putting up his entire book Reef Madness in small chunks on his blog Neuron Culture. Here at Neuron Culture I’m going to serially publish significant chunks of my book Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of . . . → Read More: Reef Madness!
By Dr. M, on April 1st, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Coral, Ecology, Life Science, Oil Spills age, Arminius, Augustus, Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, black coral, Coral, Germanic, growth rate, Leiopathes, lifespan, nuclear bomb testing, Radiation, radiocarbon dating, Romans, tree rings, Varsus Arminius The year is 9CE. Fourteen years later Pliny the Elder will be Pliny the Newly Born. Cai Lun will invent paper one hundred years later. In Northern Germany a storm unleashes on 30,000 Roman soldiers under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus. Varus’s most trusted advisor, Arminius, was the son of a Germanic war . . . → Read More: A Tale of Germanic Chieftains and Deep-Sea Corals
By Miriam Goldstein, on March 9th, 2011 One comment Scientist! Coral, Coral Reef Alliance, Ocean Doctor, Podcast, Rick MacPherson, Smithsonian As always, Rick is too modest to post about his own adventures…but fortunately I keep tabs on him through Coral Reef Alliance’s e-newsletter. Rick just went on Dr. David Guggeheim’s Ocean Doctor podcast to talk about the Coral Reef CSI program, in which crimes against coral reefs are investigated and prosecuted. “The Coral Reef . . . → Read More: RickMac’s adventures
By Dr. M, on January 23rd, 2011 One comment Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Coral, Rick MacPherson, Youtube Make sure you catch this interview with RickMac at Science Online 2011 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Make sure you catch this interview with RickMac at Science Online 2011 Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Dr. M, on November 6th, 2010 Leave a comment Coral, Oil Spills Coral, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Oil Spill A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base. (Credit: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE.) KZ already posted this yesterday but you should venture over to the NOAA website and view both the . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-sea Corals Pt. 2
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 5th, 2010 Leave a comment Coral, Expeditions, Industry & Government, Oil Spills Coral, NOAA, Oil Spill, Soft Coral Fresh out of the NOAA news office: [...] Operating from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown and using a variety of tools including the National Deep Submergence Facility’s Jason II remotely-operated vehicle (ROV), researchers were working at a site 1,400 meters deep (roughly 4,600 feet) and approximately seven miles southwest of the Macondo wellhead when . . . → Read More: Scientists Observe Damage to Deep-Sea Corals
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