I’m heading off for the rest of the week to work at Dr. M’s old stomping grounds, MBARI. I’ll be staying at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories dorm as well. If anyone is in the area and wants to grab lunch or dinner and possibly an awesome drinkathon rowdy pub crawl civil get together on . . . → Read More: Heading to Monterey!
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  April 20th, 2010  Leave a comment  Fish, Ramblings  Drinking, MBARI, MLML, Moss Landing By Dr. M, on April 13th, 2010 One comment Biodiversity, Books/Media, Carnivals & Link Love, Ecology, Education, Giant Isopod, New Research, Ramblings, Scientist!, Seamount, Tweets American Scientist, Biodiversity, bivalve, deep sea, Ecology, evolution, Gastropod, Giant Isopod, Hydrothermal Vent, island rule, isopocalypse, MBARI, Monterey Canyan, National Geographic, NESCent, New Species, 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 3rd, 2010 Leave a comment Ecology, New Research, Zooplankton climate change, deep sea, food availability, Ken Smith, MBARI A nice, new video produced by MBARI about Dr. Ken Smith’s research: “The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth’s surface and are important in global carbon cycling. Changes in the Earth’s climate can cause unexpectedly large changes in deep-sea ecosystems. Based on 18 years of studies, . . . → Read More: Climate Change and Food Availability in the Deep
By Dr. M, on February 4th, 2010 2 comments Cephalopods!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies MBARI, pelagic, Vampire Squid, Vampiroteuthis The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) lives in the deep ocean, home to the largest ecosystems on our planet. A “living fossil,” this animal has remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. The deep ocean contains what may be the greatest number of animal species, the greatest biomass, and the greatest number of . . . → Read More: TGIF: Vampire Squid
By Dr. M, on December 11th, 2009 2 comments Adaptations, Biodiversity, Conferences, Critters, Life Science, Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies, Uncategorized cilia, comb jelly, deep sea, jellyfish, MBARI, NABT, NESCent, pelagic, pressure, Steve Haddock, Temperature At this year’s National Association for Biology Teachers conference, Steve Haddock from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, spoke on deep ocean habitats. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center sponsored the session on extreme environments and are now making all the videos available. Steve’s excellent and visually impressive talk is above and demonstrates the wonder . . . → Read More: Life in the Deep Sea: Only the Fragile Survive
By Dr. M, on October 22nd, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, TGIF: Pictures & Movies blood belly, comb jelly, Ctenophore, jellyfish, MBARI, Monterey Bay Aquarium, video Great video of a comb jelly with its silica plates that are reflecting light. These plates are aligned in rows or combs and thus the name. Comb jellies are not jellyfish. The two are in different phyla, Ctenophora and Cnidaria. The main difference is that Cnidarians have stinging cells and Ctenophores have the silica plates. . . . → Read More: Blood Belly Comb Jelly
By Dr. M, on September 15th, 2009 7 comments Vessels and Equipment benthic, benthic rover, cabled observatory, deep sea, Ken Smith, MARS, MBARI, Monterey Accelerated Research Syste, Monterey Bay, oxygen consumption, respiration, rover This computer drawing shows some of the key components of the Benthic Rover. Image: © 2008 MBARI Send that data right over. The absolute coolest gadget to hit deep-sea science is is the Benthic Rover, the deep-sea equivalent of the Spirit and Opportunity. The Benthic Rover, the brain child of deep-sea biologist Ken Smith, and . . . → Read More: Benthic Rover, Benthic Rover
By Kevin Zelnio, on August 30th, 2009 7 comments Expeditions, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls, Vessels and Equipment Chris Mah, Juan de Fuca, Lemon Nudibranch, Log from the Sea of Cortez, MBARI, Oregon, Ricketts, Rogue Brewery, Steinbeck, Succession, Western Flyer A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. photo credit: zlatkarp I began Friday with my first scuba dive off the Oregon coast. Forty-five minutes at 20 feet in some of the murkiest water I ever had the displeasure of diving in, less . . . → Read More: NE Pacific Expedition Day 3&4
By Peter Etnoyer, on May 11th, 2009 Leave a comment Art, Megavertebrate, Microbes, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls carbon sequestration, deep-sea robot, DNA laboratory, Iron Hypothesis, MBARI, mermaid, Microbes, Silurian sea, Victor Navone Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep seafloor. This delivers another blow to iron fertilization experiments hoping to sequester carbon in the deep-sea. Deep-sea robotic laboratory The first-ever robotic deep-ocean DNA laboratory was deployed at 640 m . . . → Read More: Around the net…
By Peter Etnoyer, on April 3rd, 2009 6 comments Biodiversity, TGIF: Pictures & Movies abyss, echinoblog, echinoderm, elasopodid, herd, holothurian, Jonathan Wojcik, Ken Smith, MBARI 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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