Special thanks to Peter Sloss, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center.
View More TGIF: Fly-through Marianas TrenchAuthor: Peter Etnoyer
PhD candidate at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi and doctoral fellow Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.
TGIF: Dance Your Sea Turtle Dissertation
From the world famous “Dance Your Dissertation” contest, now on YouTube with a methods section. This video depicts a dissertation entitled “The invention and adoption…
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In 2007, an inspired group of sea turtle researchers launched an event called the Great Turtle Race, in which they tracked satellite tagged animals across…
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Mr Leatherback has a MySpace page and a YouTube page. I love this guy. He’s on Facebook and Twitter. He’s been just about everywhere in…
View More How far will a turtle go to save his species?Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysis
Since the first observations of transoceanic dispersal in marine snails (Scheltema 1971), long distance transport for marine animals has been a kind of Holy Grail…
View More Finding Nemo by DNA parentage analysisWhaling protests bad for business
Japanese Fisheries Agency blamed Mother Nature and her bastard stepchild the Sea Shepherd Society for missing this year’s quota of 60 fin whales and 935…
View More Whaling protests bad for businessGo Navy! Captain rescued from Somali pirates
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Somalian pirates received payback for their hostilities on Easter Sunday. Members of the U.S. Navy shot and killed…
View More Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali piratesWorld’s oldest animal captured alive, on video
Deep Sea News has been following the story of the world’s oldest living animals, the deep-sea Leiopathes black corals and Gerardia gold corals from 300m…
View More World’s oldest animal captured alive, on videoFriday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampede
Boggling bioturbators, Batman. It’s a wild herd of holothurians. Run for yur lives! Elasipodid holothurians are a dominant component of the mobile invertebrate megafauna on…
View More Friday Deep-sea Picture: Sea cucumber stampedeKraken rising in South Florida
Marco News reports a giant squid surfacing off South Florida. Dr. Hiro Tasaki, of the Osaka Deep-Sea Institute of Japan adds meaning with a rather…
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