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 . . . → Read More: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
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By Dr. M, on  December 21st, 2011  16 comments  Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, New Research, Uncategorized  beta diversity, Carbon, deep sea, diversity, flux, marine snow By Miriam Goldstein, on November 10th, 2011 7 comments Art, Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars 99 percent, diversity, Invertebrate, Invertebrate Wars, Occupy, OWS This lovely piece of art, by graduate students Laurel Hiebert and Kira Treibergs with artwork by Marley Jarvis, made the rounds last week. We are thrilled to have been given permission to post it on Deep Sea News! This design is now available as t-shirts and totebags, with proceeds to benefit the Oregon Institute . . . → Read More: Octopi Wall Street!
By para_sight, on October 31st, 2011 10 comments Biodiversity, Invertebrate Wars, Megavertebrate diversity, invertebrates, OWS All the news on the Earth's largest environment. By Dr. M, on July 15th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Evolution, Geology, Paleobiology, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Cambrian explosion, Disparity, diversity Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion Because it’s Friday and you need to begin every Friday morning with a song about the Cambrian Explosion By Archie Teuthis, on February 18th, 2011 5 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Critters, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Scientist! Community Ecology, diversity, extinction, food web, Invasion, Jarrett Byrnes, Scientist In Residence, trophic level February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). I have a lot of respect for Jarrett for not only his mad blogging skills at the cleverly name i’m a chordata! urochordata! but for his impressive research . . . → Read More: Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 1st, 2010 38 comments Education, Scientist! academia, African-Americans, ASLO, Best of Zelnio, diversity, Ernest Just, Howard University, Minorities, Minorities in Marine Biology, NSF, Race, Robert Trench, Roger Arliner Young, Salary, Samuel Nabrit, SESTAT, STEM Careers At the next conference, symposium or faculty meeting you attend take a good look at the landscape around you. Are the halls dotted with a variety of trees or are you drowning in a sea of monotony? As a marine ecologist I am trained to measure diversity. Diversity has many attributes and consequences. Biodiversity is . . . → Read More: Minorities in Marine Biology: The Dearth of Black Professors
By Dr. M, on February 20th, 2010 3 comments Biodiversity, Books/Media Biodiversity, deep sea, diversity, Harvard University Press, Micheal Rex, Ron Etter During my Ph.D., my advisors began drafting a book. I patiently awaited the tome on the deep sea biodiversity. My wait is no longer. Rex and Etter’s Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale is finally here and the first book dedicated to synthesizing this subject. I received my copy last week and am quickly consuming every . . . → Read More: Deep-Sea Biodiversity: Pattern and Scale
By Dr. M, on January 5th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Critters, Life Science, Mating & Reproduction, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Antarctica, Arthropoda, body size, Buddha nature, Crustacea, digestive tract, diversity, gonad, organs, proboscis, pycnogonid, respiration, sea spider “Pet” Giant Pycnogonid attacking computer. Much of the earth’s biodiversity lies within the phylum Arthropoda. You are probably aware of many species within the group trilobites, spiders, centipedes, crabs, insects, lobsters, and whole other mélange of strange beasties. Throw a crab and you are likely to hit another arthropod. Scratch that as I cannot condone the . . . → Read More: Pycnogonids, more than spiders of the sea
By Dr. M, on June 12th, 2009 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Environmental Sciences, Microbes Adaptations, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Boston, deep sea, diversity, food, Guinness, oxygen, physiology It’s a hard knock life for deep-sea animals. It’s really cold in the winter. It’s really cold in the summer. It’s dark and wet…like Boston and Guinness. Your only source of food, what little you get, is far from fresh and may have passed through the rectum of more than one animal. If you are . . . → Read More: OMZ’s: God-For-Saken Pits of Despair
By Dr. M, on May 17th, 2009 24 comments Mating & Reproduction Bible, breasts, diversity, evolution, fencing, Israel, Old Testament, Penis, penis fencing, prudish, reproduciton, reproductive isolation, sex, Sex Week, sexual selection, Song of Solomon, sperm This is the official introduction to Sex Week at DSN. We here at DSN never shy away from writing about sex. Through reproduction, fitness is realized as progeny populate the landscape. Thus reproduction can be considered the backbone of evolution as traits are selected for and against, or perhaps not at all. Reproductive methods, the . . . → Read More: Introduction to Sex Week
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