The Last Refuge – Original Art by Glendon Mellow http://glendonmellow.com UPDATE: Glendon is now offering this beautiful piece of deep-sea art as prints on his website! Products range from cards to full size poster prints and are quite affordably priced! Earlier this year I approached Glendon Mellow who writes the Flying Trilobite blog, a fabulous . . . → Read More: The Last Refuge
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  June 4th, 2010  11 comments  Art, Organisms, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  alvin, Flying Trilobite, Glendon Mellow, Hydrothermal Vent, submersible, Trilobite By Kevin Zelnio, on May 27th, 2010 2 comments Art, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Vessels and Equipment Biomimetics, Canoe, Hydrothermal Vent, Project S, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, Southern Fried Science Southern Fried Scientist has finally posted our latest creation. Those follow @sfriedscientist and @kzelnio on twitter may have heard us mention Project S. It is a biomimetic concept canoe of the highly charismatic deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata. I’ve previously blogged about the fascinating eye of Rimicaris for those interested in learning more. Andrew and I . . . → Read More: Behold the Rimicanoe!
By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2010 One comment Carnivals & Link Love, Ecology, Education, Giant Isopod, New Research, Organisms, Reviews, Scientist!, Seamount American Scientist, bivalve, deep sea, Ecology, evolution, Gastropod, Giant Isopod, Hydrothermal Vent, island rule, isopocalypse, MBARI, Monterey Canyan, National Geographic, NESCent, New Species, Organisms, Seamount, Sigma Xi, Snail, Southern Fried Science, twitter A potential new species of nudibranch (white box) on a bubblegum coral You might have noticed that my posting frequency is down recently. Why? 1. Kevin Z convinced me to start Tweeting. There seems to be an inverse relationship to my writing for DSN and posting Tweets. Previous attempts to integrate our Twitter content into . . . → Read More: What’s New With the Dr. M and the Oceans?
By Kevin Zelnio, on April 1st, 2010 7 comments Adaptations, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Best of Zelnio, Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent, Infrared, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Radiation, Retina, Rhodopsin, Rimicaris exoculata, Shrimp, vision Rimicaris exoculata, from this Japanese website (click image) *Not to be confused with the hit song by Survivor. The vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata (literally the Rift-shrimp deprived of eyes) swarms hydrothermal chimneys, with temperatures reaching over 350 C, en masse in the darkness of the deep sea. It has a certain peculiarity in that its . . . → Read More: The ‘Eye’ of the Vent Shrimp
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 16th, 2010 Leave a comment New Species, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Bathyacmaea, Gastropoda, Hydrothermal Vent, Lau Basin, limpet, Mollusca This is a new species of Bathyacmaea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Patellogastropoda, Acmaeidae) currently under description by a japanese colleague. I have found hundreds of these individuals in my quantitative collections of chemoautotrophic communities at the Lau Basin hydrothermal vent fields. They reminded me of the Patella limpet I learned about in my undergrad inverts class. Photos . . . → Read More: New Bathyacmaea
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 31st, 2010 9 comments Organisms, Reviews, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Hydrothermal Vent, taxonomy, Vent Fauna Handbook, worm The World's Authoritative Guide to Vent Fauna Clearly, last week’s Cephalopod Beak ID Contest was too easy! So This week’s contest is going to be a little harder. I’m testing you guys out, seeing where your limits are. This week I am highlighting the Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna by veteran deep sea colleagues . . . → Read More: Mad Taxonomic Skillz Contest II – What Vent Worm Am I?
By Kevin Zelnio, on September 4th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Geology, Organisms Asteroid, Barnacle, Caldera, Coral, echinoderm, Gastropod, Gorda Ridge, Hydrothermal Vent, inactive hydrothermal vents, invertebrates, Juan de Fuca, lava flow, North Cleft, President Jackson Seamount, Rusticles, Sea Star, stormy seas, Weather [mappress] Yellow feather star (comatulid crinoid). Photo courtesy of MBARI. We dove Wednesday on North Cleft (45.030268, -130.182166), a massive ravine over 100 meters deep and a few hundred meters wide formed by the spreading of the Juan de Fuca and Pacific Plates. At 2.5 kilometers depth, we explored three inactive hydrothermal vents, the tallest . . . → Read More: NE Pacific Expedition Day 8 & 9
By Dr. M, on August 20th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls 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 Pacific Rise Hydrothermal Vents Sanctuary, protecting 360,000 acres of deep-sea habitats. By Kevin Zelnio, on August 20th, 2009 4 comments New Research, New Species, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Alvinocarididae, Alvinocaris, Alvinocaris komaii, Back-Arc Basin, Best of Zelnio, COI, Eastern Lau Spreading Center, ELSC, fiji, Genetics, Hydrothermal Vent, Lau Basin, Morphology, Shrimp, Systematics, taxonomy, Tomoyuki Komai Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in the time since then! I always meant to give the back story on it but hadn’t the time while I madly finished writing my Masters degree. I’ve finished and got . . . → Read More: Shrimp Tails: Describing a New Species
By Dr. M, on August 18th, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls AGU, California, EOS, Geology, hydrate, Hydrothermal Vent, landslide, methane, minerals, New Hampshire, NOAA, Okeanos Explorer, plume A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
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