Image on left: Seafloor Production Tool (SPT) that will be operated at a depth of 1600 meters off the coast of Papua New Guinea by Nautilus Minerals to extract copper and gold from high grade seafloor massive sulphide deposits. Image on Right: Computer generated Bucket-Wheel Excavator used to extract unobtanium from Pandora in James . . . → Read More: James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?
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By RickMac, on  March 29th, 2012  One comment  Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Gadgets & Gear, Mining, New Research, Oil Spills, Opinion & Editorial  Challenger Deep, conservation, Deep Challenger, Deep Horizon, deep sea, exploration, HOV, James Cameron, ROV, SkyTruth, submersibles By Dr. M, on February 12th, 2012 One comment Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Giant Isopod, Organisms Alicella gigantea, Amphipod, body size, deep sea, Edouard Chevreux, French, Gigantism, supergiant, Trench In 1899 a French zoologist named Edouard Chevreux with an inordinate fondness for crustaceans officially described two crustaceans from the deepest parts of the ocean. Over 100 hundred years later, scientists have collected less than two dozen specimens of this enigmatic shellfish, shocking given that is largest species of amphipod ever known. Within Crustacean . . . → Read More: The Large But Enigmatic Supergiant
By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2011 17 comments Adaptations, Climate Change, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Organisms, Uncategorized beta diversity, Carbon, deep sea, diversity, flux, marine snow Oh the dark deep sea is frightful, But the food not so delightful, But since we’ve got no place to go, Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! Let It Marine Snow! The deep-sea floor is a patch mosaic of habitats In the late 1960’s, two marine biologists, Howard Sanders and Robert Hessler, . . . → Read More: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
By Dr Bik, on November 30th, 2011 One comment New Research, Uncategorized 18S rRNA, 454 sequencing, Community Ecology, deep sea, eukaryotes, metagenomics, nematodes Make no mistake about it — I am shamelessly pimping out our lab’s new paper, written by yours truly. In fact, the title of this blog post was actually an alternate name for the manuscript (although I’d love to see the reviewer comments on that title). Technology is absolutely ridiculous these days. My iPhone is . . . → Read More: Our badass 454 sequencing reveals awesome deep-sea insights
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 1st, 2011 Leave a comment Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies Anoplogaster cornuta, Aristostomias scintillans, Chaenophryne, Chauliodus macouni, deep sea, Fangtooth, fish, Longfin dragonfish, MBARI, Shiny loosejaw, Tactostoma macropus, teeth, Viperfish From the always epically entertaining MBARI Video. By Kevin Zelnio, on October 16th, 2011 Leave a comment Ecology, Scientist! deep sea, Ecology, Katleen Robert, Neptune Canada Katleen Robert is a deep sea ecologist and graduate student at University of Victoria who was interviewed for NEPTUNE Canada. Listen to her reasons for becoming an ocean scientist! By Kevin Zelnio, on September 14th, 2011 Leave a comment Expeditions, Life At Sea, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls deep sea, Field Museum, Hydrothermal Vents, Janet Voight, Mollusc, Wood Dr. Janet Voight of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago talks about exploring deep sea ecosystems and her research on deep sea marine invertebrates. Many of these images are familiar to me as I was generously invited to participate on a cruise to hydrothermal vents in 2003 by her while I was merely . . . → Read More: Janet Voight: In 1860s “Educated People Could Not Envision” Life on the Seafloor
By Dr. M, on September 13th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government, Organisms conservation, deep sea, Pew The deep sea is home to an estimated 10 million species, most of which have yet to be scientifically-documented. While this marine biodiversity rivals the world’s richest tropical rainforests, these fragile deep-sea habitats, which have taken centuries to grow, are being destroyed by trawlers dragging enormous weighted nets that, in a single pass, scrape . . . → Read More: Deep Trouble for the Deep Sea
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
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