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A World Inside a Coconut

Kevin Zelnio August 10, 2010 Best of Zelnio Camouflage Coconuts Debris East Pacific Rise Field Museum Hipponoe Poecilasma R/V Atlantis TowCam UC Davis Xylophaga

This is rewritten from one of my favorite contributions from The Other 95%. ————————— In November 2003, while an undergrad at University of California at…

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Conservation & Environment Industry & Government Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

New Hydrothermal Vent Sanctuary

Dr. M August 20, 2009 deep sea East Pacific Rise Felipe Calderon Guaymas Basin Hydrothermal Vent marine sanctuary Mexico

President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern…

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Do Vent Crabs Do It Under the Gyre?

Kevin Zelnio May 21, 2009 Ana Hilário Bythograea Bythograea thermydron Bythograea vrijenhoeki Bythorgraea laubieri Crab East Pacific Rise food supply Gametogenesis Hydrothermal Vent Pacific-Antarctic Ridge Phylogenetic Constraint Seasonality Sex Week Synchrony

[googlemap lat=”-37.5″ lng=”-110.5″ width=”500px” height=”300px” zoom=”3″ type=”G_HYBRID_MAP”]Pacific-Antarctic Ridge[/googlemap] Vent crabs live in the dark depths of the ocean. Previous studies have shown that the vent…

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Geology Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

From The Desk of Zelnio: New Geophysical Study May Point The Direction To New Vent Discoveries

Kevin Zelnio March 21, 2007 Best of Zelnio East Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vent magma Mantle Upwelling Mid-Ocean Ridge

Perspective view of East Pacific Rise and the seismic velocity structure of the underlying mantle. Surprisingly, regions of magma storage in the mantle (shown as…

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