When he made his historic solo dive into the Mariana Trench last month, James Cameron brought back images and descriptions of a “lunar like” marine landscape nearly devoid of life.-via National Geographic Returning from humankind’s first solo dive to the deepest spot in the ocean, filmmaker James Cameron said he saw no obvious signs of . . . → Read More: Is Marianas Trench A Lifeless Void?
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By Dr. M, on  March 27th, 2013  3 comments  Biology, Crustacean, Ecology, Expeditions, Gadgets & Gear, Hadal & Trench, Microbes, New Research, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms, Special, Vessels and Equipment  Bacteria, Cameron, Challenger Deep, exploration, hadal, James Cameron, JAMSTEC, marianas trench, Microbes, Trench By Miriam Goldstein, on September 1st, 2012 2 comments Expeditions Antarctica, Cold Dark Benthos, deep sea, McMurdo, Microbes, scientific expedition, Scripps, Tonga Trench Expedition, Trench Looking for vicarious adventure? Check out two new expedition blogs, both of which are underway right now! The Tonga Trench Expedition team The Tonga Trench Expedition is a Scripps Institution of Oceanography student cruise, led by Scripps graduate student/chief scientist Rosa Leon Zayas. (and if anyone out there is looking for a kick-ass female Latina . . . → Read More: Two new expedition blogs: super deep South Pacific and super cold Antarctica
By Dr. M, on February 12th, 2012 One comment Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Giant Isopod, Organisms Alicella gigantea, Amphipod, body size, deep sea, Edouard Chevreux, French, Gigantism, supergiant, Trench In 1899 a French zoologist named Edouard Chevreux with an inordinate fondness for crustaceans officially described two crustaceans from the deepest parts of the ocean. Over 100 hundred years later, scientists have collected less than two dozen specimens of this enigmatic shellfish, shocking given that is largest species of amphipod ever known. Within Crustacean . . . → Read More: The Large But Enigmatic Supergiant
By Dr. M, on December 8th, 2011 2 comments Environmental Sciences, Geology Challenger Deep, deepest, depth, Mariana Trench, Trench A new survey puts the depth of the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, at 10,994 meters, nearly 75 meters more than deepest of prior estimates. The new survey was conducted by the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire. Also interesting is The . . . → Read More: Deepest Trench Now With More Deep
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 22nd, 2009 3 comments Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Geology, New Research, Organisms, Paleobiology, Scientist!, Seamount, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls abyss, biogeography, canyon, deep sea, geography, landscape diversity, Mosely, Organisms, range size, Seamount, seeps, Trench, vents, volcanic “There is absolutely nothing to restrict the geographical ranges of animals in the deep sea. Dr. Wallich, the pioneer of deep-sea research, eighteen years ago recognized the deep homothermal sea “As the great highway for animal migration, extending pole to pole” Below 500 fathoms it is everywhere dark and cold, and there are no ridges . . . → Read More: Biogeography of the Deep Sea
By Dr. M, on July 14th, 2009 3 comments New Research, Organisms Crinoid, deep, depth, echinoderm, hadal, Japan, record, Trench Japanese researchers recently set a record with the deepest in-situ observation of a criniod. In the words of the authors, Previous records of stalked crinoids from hadal depths (exceeding 6000 m) are extremely rare, and no in-situ information has been available. We show here that stalked crinoids live densely on rocky substrates at depths . . . → Read More: The Deepest Crinoids
By Dr. M, on January 15th, 2009 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Social Sciences, Uncategorized Marianas, Marine Protected Area, National Monument, No-Take Zone, Trench SOURCE: Council on Environmental Quality, Pew Charitable Trusts, NOAA We have and everyone else have already covered what is turning out to be the paradoxical blue legacy Bush will leave behind. But I thought it worth posting this link which is actual text of the presidential proclamation. The Mariana Volcanic Arc contains objects of scientific . . . → Read More: Marianas Trench Marine National Monument
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