If there was a mountain in your backyard with no name, how long do you think it would stay that way? Not very long. Some intrepid explorer would climb it, map it, and name it. In the ocean, though, many mountains are unnamed, and unexplored. There was a time when I lived in Los Angeles . . . → Read More: Northeast Pacific Seamount Map: a Gift that Keeps Giving
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By Dr. M, on  August 5th, 2009  3 comments  Expeditions, Geology, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Expedition, lava, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Ocean, ridge, Seamount, Volcano Myself and Chris Mah (from Echinoblog) will particpating in Leg 5 of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s expedition ot the northern Pacific. Leg 5 of the expedition focuses on sampling lava flows that erupted during historic time on the Juan de Fuca and Gorda Mid-Ocean Ridges, and comparing them with the surrounding, older . . . → Read More: 2009 Pacific Northwest Expedition
By Dr. M, on March 16th, 2009 3 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Scientist! deep sea, Giant Isopod, Giant Squid, Mollusca, Organisms, Research, Seamount, submarine, webpage My new personal research website is now up. If you have some free time head over and take a look around. I have everything about my research and every single one of my publications in pdf format. Some of those are great reads with a nice glass of Montepulciano d’Abruzzo on a rainy night. You . . . → Read More: New Website
By Dr. M, on February 27th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Biology, Expeditions, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seamount Seamount, video The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently unleashed their new YouTube Channel. Of course it features Macropinna but you can also see Humboldt squid. A new video (below) on Davidson Seamount that discusses research I have been involved with was just uploaded today. . . . → Read More: MBARI YouTube Channel
By Dr. M, on February 19th, 2009 14 comments Conservation & Environment, Coral, Expeditions, New Research, Open Access, Organisms, Seamount conservation, Coral, Invertebrate, Open Access, plos one, Seamount, sponge Image credit: (c) 2006 MBARI / NOAA These this photograph shows three different types of sponges growing on the lava of Davidson Seamount: large yellow sponges, white frilly sponges, and white filamentous sponges which were previously thought to be a type of coral. The large yellow sponge provides a perch for several basket stars and . . . → Read More: Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought
By Peter Etnoyer, on January 22nd, 2009 9 comments Coral, New Research, Organisms, Scientist!, Seamount bamboo coral, deep sea, isidella, isidella tentaculum, Seamount Bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum at 750 m depth The bamboo coral Isidella tentaculum finally rolled of the presses over the holidays. I can finally speak the name aloud. DSN debuted the video of the actual moment of discovery at Discovery Channel in concert with the 4th International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals. I went through several . . . → Read More: Naming a new species is tricky business
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