Mid-Atlantic Ridge: From Wikimedia Commons Map showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge splitting Iceland and separating the North American and Eurasian Plates. The map also shows Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, the Thingvellir area, and the locations of some of Iceland's active volcanoes (red triangles), including Krafla. From Wikimedia commons You can thank the major ocean spreading . . . → Read More: Sometimes My Job Is Real Nice
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By Dr. M, on  June 16th, 2010  4 comments  Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Life Science, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  hms challenger, Iceland, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, scuba diving, Silfra, Thingvellier Valley By Kevin Zelnio, on March 7th, 2010 2 comments Scientist!, Weird jewelry, scuba diving, Southern Fried Science Our own Miriam G took home gold in Southern Fried Science’s Ocean Story Slam! Here was her entry. Check out the other Ocean Story Slams at SFS. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}Our own Miriam G took home gold in Southern Fried Science’s Ocean Story Slam! Here was her entry. Check out the other Ocean Story Slams at SFS. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Peter Etnoyer, on June 5th, 2009 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government, Scientist!, TGIF: Pictures & Movies Barack Obama, Belgium, Brussels Brussels-Capital Region, deepest pool, Europe, John Beernaerts, scuba, scuba diving Why does Europe get all the cool stuff, while here in America we can only brag about the world’s largest McDonald’s? Oh, and the world’s coolest President. Nice speech in Cairo, dude. Obama makes it worth being here, so far from the Nemo 33 diving center in Brussels, Belgium. The pool is spring fed, . . . → Read More: TGIF: World’s Deepest Pool
By Dr. M, on March 15th, 2009 10 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Conservation & Environment, Education, Gadgets & Gear, Ramblings, Scientist!, Uncategorized calypso, cereal, Clubs, Cousteau, Jacques Cousteau, membership, scuba, scuba diving, super heros Some of you may remember that when we left ScienceBlogs I wrote… “When I was much, much younger, I joined Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso Club (named affectionately after his beloved ship). Was anyone else club members? Is there still a Calypso Club? The rights and privileges of this elite club were endless. Entry was limited to . . . → Read More: Calypso Club?
By Peter Etnoyer, on February 12th, 2009 4 comments Biodiversity, Books/Media, Coral coral reef, indonesia, kids, National Geographic, Octocoral, red sea, scuba diving, seahorse, video Satomi's pygmy seahorse, one of the world's smallest seahorses. It’s going to be much easier to convince people Sea Fans are Super Cool now that National Geographic photographers trained their lens on new species of pygmy sea horses from Indonesia and the Red Sea. Headlines are saying the pygmy wonder horses are endemic (hello) to . . . → Read More: Seahorses: nice backdrops for octocorals
By Peter Etnoyer, on August 23rd, 2008 7 comments Expeditions coral reef, deep sea, Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico, scuba diving, twilight zone Join me and my colleagues as we embark on the Benthic Assemblages in the Twilight Zone (BATZ) expedition to characterize benthic assemblages in the mesophotic or “twilight zone” (50-200 m) using a deep-diving Phantom II remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico August 25 – September 2nd, 2008. . . . → Read More: Twilight Zone… the Expedition
By Peter Etnoyer, on July 28th, 2008 19 comments Megavertebrate conservation, manta ray, marine, Mozambique, ocean, scuba diving, shark When Andrea Marshall began studying the manta rays of Mozambique for her dissertation five years ago, she never expected to discover a new species, let alone a globally cosmopolitan, highly migratory ocean wanderer. She was “awestruck by their beauty,” studied the rays, and then gradually noticed subtle differences between them. Species can be cryptic; hard . . . → Read More: Scientist falls in love with manta rays, finds new species
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