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?
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By Archie Teuthis, on  February 18th, 2011  5 comments  Adaptations, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Organisms, Scientist!  Community Ecology, diversity, extinction, food web, Invasion, Jarrett Byrnes, Scientist In Residence, trophic level By Dr Bik, on November 8th, 2010 5 comments Oil Spills, Plankton BP, Deepwater Horizon, food web, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, zooplankton A new study released today shows the first evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil entering planktonic food webs in the Gulf of Mexico (is anyone surprised? No? Didn’t think so. ). Researchers from Dauphin Island Sea lab and the University of South Alabama tracked levels of δ13C across different size classes of plankton, looking for depleted . . . → Read More: Oil hydrocarbons ingested by GOM plankton communities
By Dr. M, on August 11th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biology, Fish, New Research, Organisms, Uncategorized abyss, carbon cycle, detritus, echinoderm, fatty acid, food web, grenadier, lipid, macrourids, marine snow, Pacific, predator, prey, rattail, Scavenger, Station M., trophic Photo courtesy of MBARI. Coryphaenoides acrolepis in Monterey Canyon. Rattail fish are caught and sold under the more palatable name, “grenadier.” However, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program recommends that consumers do not purchase or eat grenadier because the fish grow very slowly and may not reproduce until they are 30 or 40 years . . . → Read More: Simple Summer Recipes for Dead Seafloor Carrion
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