The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked…
View More Echinoderms, Cnidarians, & The Gastropods That Parasitize ThemCategory: Coral
The 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 scaleWill ocean acidification affect deep-water corals?
The global ocean has already taken up half of the atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by humans over the last 200 years, so the ongoing effects of climate change are dampened. That’s right, you can thank the ocean for saving the planet so far.
View More Will ocean acidification affect deep-water corals?Science beyond borders
Corals don’t usually know what country they are living in, and those that do assure me that it does not affect their biology, just their politics.
View More Science beyond bordersWho Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?
Ten years ago Fred Grassle, a marine biologist with deep-sea tendencies, and Jesse Ausubel, program director for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, started conversing on an…
View More Who Will Fund the Census of Marine Life?Ask & You Shall Receive
When I sent the original email to Rick enquiring about obtaining one of these, I thought I would have to send him multiple emails. Apparently,…
View More Ask & You Shall ReceiveAsk & You Shall Receive
When I sent the original email to Rick enquiring about obtaining one of these, I thought I would have to send him multiple emails. Apparently,…
View More Ask & You Shall ReceiveTGIF: Assessing Coral Populations
Here’s a wonderful clip of Nancy Knowlton discussing her coral research in the tropics. Nancy is one of the world’s premier marine biologist with an…
View More TGIF: Assessing Coral PopulationsBaby Jaguar Sharks Like To Hang Out in Corals
Figure 2 from Etnoyer and Warrenchuk (2007). Callogorgia americana delta colonies with catshark egg cases attached. Depth 533 m. ROV suction hose on the left…
View More Baby Jaguar Sharks Like To Hang Out in CoralsWho doesn't love 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?
Business owner: So if we destroy 1.1 acres natural habitat all we have to do is put 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?…
View More Who doesn't love 110 acres of concrete on the ocean floor?