Humpback Whale Aerobics
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By , on January 8th, 2010 3 comments   Scientist!   , , , , ,  

This is a cool National Geographic video about research done by Duke Marine Lab researchers Ari Friedlander and Pat Halpin. I love the graphical representation of the data they get from the tags showing the whale twisting around on the seafloor. Below the fold is an interview with Ari for PlumTV about marine biology, photography . . . → Read More: Humpback Whale Aerobics

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A Nudi on David’s Wood
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By , on October 1st, 2009 2 comments   Uncategorized   , , , , ,  

David is a graduate student in my lab. He wants to know what types of animals colonize wood and whale bones in the deep sea and if we can find similar critters in shallow waters using the same substrates. He brought in some wood slabs he hung off the docks the other day and, naturally, . . . → Read More: A Nudi on David’s Wood

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Crazy ‘Bout Those Dwarf Males Profizzah
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By , on January 26th, 2009 6 comments   Education, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , ,  

The Southern Fried Scientist is TA’ing Invertebrate Zoology with Cindy Van Dover at the Marine Lab here. They are having their students create a 2-3 minute podcast of a published article on invertebrate biology, called Topic in Marine Invertebrate Zoology (TiMIZ), and he is posting them to his blog and the course YouTube Channel. I . . . → Read More: Crazy ‘Bout Those Dwarf Males Profizzah

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