Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life
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By , on May 12th, 2009 4 comments   New Research, Organisms, Scientist!   , , , ,  

[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

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So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea Biologist?
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By , on March 2nd, 2009 28 comments   Education, New Research, Scientist!, Uncategorized   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

In the past, a few readers, interns, random undergraduates, and a curious public have asked all three of us here at DSN “How do you become a deep-sea biologist?” I write this from the perspective of obtaining a Ph.d. in marine biology and I am assuming the reader wants to go for a Ph.d. as . . . → Read More: So You Want to Be A Deep-Sea Biologist?

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