Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’
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By , on April 19th, 2011 3 comments   Conservation & Environment, Ecology, Expeditions, Fish, Fishing, Mating & Reproduction   , , , , , , , , ,  

Eric Heupel is a graduate student at University of Connecticut in Oceanography. He keeps a personal blog at Eclectic Echoes and Larval Images, and used to part of The Other 95% team along with me before we closed shop. You can find Eric tweeting as @eclecticechoes. —————————————————- Hey folks, Kevin asked me to do . . . → Read More: Scientist in Residence: My ‘Seascape of Fear’

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Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?
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By , on February 18th, 2011 5 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Critters, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Scientist!   , , , , , , ,  

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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Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion
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By , on June 30th, 2008 6 comments   Adaptations, Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, New Research   , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Dr. Maria Pia Miglietta, a postdoc in my lab at Penn State, just published a fascinating paper on a “silent invasion” happening around the world’s oceans in the journal Biological Invasions. Those may look like tentacles, but in reality they are the nunchuks of rapid expansion of a stealthy marine invasion. Intonjutsu: Cheating Death In . . . → Read More: Hydromedusa Mounts Ninja Style Invasion

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