Snail over at A Snail’s Eye View, one of the best blogs on the triple -W, casts a firm vote for the Mollusks. Snail reminds…
View More Echinoderms & Those That Love Them Need to Hang It UpAuthor: Dr. M
Craig McClain is the Executive Director of the Lousiana University Marine Consortium. He has conducted deep-sea research for 20 years and published over 50 papers in the area. He has participated in and led dozens of oceanographic expeditions taken him to the Antarctic and the most remote regions of the Pacific and Atlantic. Craig’s research focuses on how energy drives the biology of marine invertebrates from individuals to ecosystems, specifically, seeking to uncover how organisms are adapted to different levels of carbon availability, i.e. food, and how this determines the kinds and number of species in different parts of the oceans. Additionally, Craig is obsessed with the size of things. Sometimes this translated into actually scientific research. Craig’s research has been featured on National Public Radio, Discovery Channel, Fox News, National Geographic and ABC News. In addition to his scientific research, Craig also advocates the need for scientists to connect with the public and is the founder and chief editor of the acclaimed Deep-Sea News (https://www.deepseanews.com/), a popular ocean-themed blog that has won numerous awards. His writing has been featured in Cosmos, Science Illustrated, American Scientist, Wired, Mental Floss, and the Open Lab: The Best Science Writing on the Web.
Just One Thing Challenge #8: Inspire the Children
This week’s challenge is help instill sense of awe in children about the ocean . Teaching our children about the ocean, creating passion and connections…
View More Just One Thing Challenge #8: Inspire the ChildrenOn How Mollusks are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 3: The Radula
In general, among Mollusks, the mouth opens into a buccal cavity. In most classes of Mollusks, the buccal cavity contains a tongue called the odontophore.…
View More On How Mollusks are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 3: The RadulaOn How Molluscs are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 2
Don’t get me wrong this is pretty freakin’ sweet, but echinoderms are not the only large Antarctic sea creatures. But this is way cooler… That…
View More On How Molluscs are Cooler Than Echinoderms (or anything else) Pt. 2Red Hot Sponge Reproduction
Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beautiful Soft Bottom
More from Deepscape… Image 61 of sandy sediments at 970m in the Faroe-Shetland Channel with stalked glass sponges (white spots top), an unidentified fish, and…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Beautiful Soft BottomOn Clearing Up The Matter That Mollusks Are Better Than Echinoderms
Sheril over at The Intersection seems to be confused about what the coolest invertebrate is. She goes so far as to call out PZ about…
View More On Clearing Up The Matter That Mollusks Are Better Than EchinodermsAnother reason not to work with vertebrates…
From CNN… A woman sunbathing on a boat died after a stingray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys on Thursday and struck her,…
View More Another reason not to work with vertebrates…On Bottled Water
I think this graphic illustrates Craig’s last Just One Thing Challenge. Hat tip to Gear Junkie’s Daily Dose blog via GT.
View More On Bottled WaterThe pH scale
Talk about the potential effects of ocean acidification on deep-sea corals has me wondering the case of acid rain in North American lakes. This is something we understand much better.
View More The pH scale