Have you heard about Moko the dolphin? Moko is a three-year-old bottlenose dolphin from New Zealand that gained fame in March last year, when he…
View More Bad Moko. Bad dolphin. Go home now.Author: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
Eye in the Sea camera to feature CarcassVision
The Eye-in-the-Sea camera will be freshly baited with a frozen sea lion carcass in a camera deployment set for August 14th, in the deep Monterey…
View More Eye in the Sea camera to feature CarcassVisionPlease, call me Doctor
I successfully defended my dissertation thesis today at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi. The presentation went well, 45 minutes exactly. Following that, I was grilled…
View More Please, call me DoctorFriday Picture: Have your coral and eat it, too?
People accept the idea of echinoderm predation on shallow reef building corals. The voracious Crown of Thorns seastar Acanthaster planci is a familiar coral antagonist…
View More Friday Picture: Have your coral and eat it, too?Political action is one click away
Today is political action day. Your voice is only a click away. Sheril Kirshenbam and others are hosting a Letter on Ocean Acidification from ocean…
View More Political action is one click awayNew MPAs in Mexico protect vents, whale sharks
From the MPA News: In June, Mexico designated its first deep sea marine protected area around two hydrothermal vent systems in the Gulf of California…
View More New MPAs in Mexico protect vents, whale sharksArtists Take Over Vienna Zoo
Artists Steinbrener and Dempf have taken over a Vienna Zoo, bringing an innovative, but nonetheless depressing, observation to the fore on the tenuous relationship between…
View More Artists Take Over Vienna ZooAnnouncing La Defense
This went public today over the TAMU-CC listserves, the first attempt to tie all my deep-sea coral research from the last three years together into…
View More Announcing La DefenseTravel picks for 12th Deep-Sea Biology Conference
Registration for the 12th Deep-Sea Biology Conference in Reykjavic, Iceland doesn’t start until January 2010, but the bags are already packed. The 12th Deep-sea Biology…
View More Travel picks for 12th Deep-Sea Biology ConferenceDissertation emancipation
When the Graduate Student Handbook says PhD candidates will be submitting a book-length manuscript, they’re not kidding. Thursday I turned over my draft dissertation –…
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