More on the 2009 NE Pacific Expedition
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By , on September 22nd, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Scientist!, Vessels and Equipment   , , , , , , , ,  

In the ROV control room. You can see Chris there on the right with his left hand on his chin. I am in the background about dead center (the bald one with the headset on doing my cheif scientist thing. Chris Mah provides the next installment of his ongoing series covering our previous cruise.  Although . . . → Read More: More on the 2009 NE Pacific Expedition

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Back From the Blue
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By , on September 15th, 2009 Leave a comment   Expeditions, Scientist!   , , ,  

Back from the great NE Pacific and no sooner do I return than Kevin takes off for the great SE Atlantic.  Overall a very productive voyage with plenty of quantitative data, high-definition video, and new species to keep me busy.  Check out Chris Mah’s recent post on the James Bond style moon pool vehicle launches. . . . → Read More: Back From the Blue

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It Must Be “Hump” Day in the Blogosphere
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By , on May 20th, 2009 Leave a comment   Carnivals & Link Love, Mating & Reproduction   , , , , , ,  

Christopher Taylor at the Catologue of Organisms (one of the handful of blogs I rush to when I see an update in my Reader!) has a post on a really unique reproductive strategy in polychaetes, called epitoky, in the awesomely titled My Genitals Just Grew Eyes and Swam Away. Its quite astonishing, especially the bit . . . → Read More: It Must Be “Hump” Day in the Blogosphere

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Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
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By , on April 3rd, 2009 6 comments   Biodiversity, TGIF: Pictures & Movies   , , , , , , , ,  

Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, northeast Atlantic. They occur in high densities over large areas (Smith et al. 1997). Yes, but, where are they going? They’re up to something, for . . . → Read More: Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede

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