A paper by Marc Nadon and colleagues from U. Hawaii and U Miami RSMAS has been getting a good bit of press lately (see here and here and here), and rightly so, it’s an interesting and important subject. They studied populations of reef sharks in the Pacific and attempted to reconstruct what the “starting” populations . . . → Read More: Are humans and reefs sharks mutually exclusive?
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By para_sight, on  May 7th, 2012  13 comments  Conservation & Environment, Fishing, New Research  Pacific, sharks By Dr. M, on December 21st, 2009 One comment Expeditions, Geology, Natural Disaster, New Research, Pictures and Movies, Scientist!, Seamount eruption, Pacific, video, Volcano All captured in video by scientists exploring 1220m (4000ft) beneath the surface in Pacific Ocean near Samoa the previous summer. The lava erupting from the West Mata volcano is predicted to be the hottest lava erupting one Earth. [googlemap lat="-15.284185114076433" lng="-172.08984375" width="500px" height="500px" zoom="2" type="G_SATELLITE_MAP"]Samoa[/googlemap] . . . → Read More: Deepest Underwater Volcanic Eruption
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 5 comments Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies Baited Camera Traps, deep, fish, food fall, lander, Pacific, snailfish, Trench In 2008 we reported on the 7700 meter record for filming fish, video above, Using a remote lander, a group filmed Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis, a deep-water snailfish, found only in the Northwest Pacific between 6.1km to 7.5km deep. Now this same group filmed swarms of the snailfish Notoliparis kermadecensis nibbling at bait 7560 meters, the . . . → Read More: Deepest Fish On Film
By Dr. M, on September 15th, 2009 Leave a comment Expeditions, Scientist! Chris Mah, echinoblog, Expeditions, Pacific 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
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
By Dr. M, on March 27th, 2009 4 comments Organisms, Pictures and Movies holdfast, Invertebrate, kelp, Pacific, Polychaete, the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, video, zoology Errant polychaete from a Pacific coast kelp holdfast; filmed during an Invertebrate Zoology lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
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