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Amazing Growing Deep-Sea Volcano

When put in water, volcanoes may increase in size From National Geographic: The science team, led by Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University, reports the…

Art Microbes New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

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Peter Etnoyer May 11, 2009 carbon sequestration deep-sea robot DNA laboratory Iron Hypothesis MBARI mermaid Microbes Silurian sea Victor Navone

Bloom carbon won’t sink Scientists studying the fate of carbon particles originating in Southern Ocean plankton blooms find that the carbon never reaches the deep…

New Research Opinion & Editorial Organisms Scientist! Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Kevin Zelnio…New and Improved…Now With 30% More Shrimp!

Dr. M April 15, 2009 Arthropoda Crustacea Hydrothermal Vent molecular phylogeny scientific article Shrimp species

KZ is now among the scientifically published. Occurring this week in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is “A new species of Alvinocaris…

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Thriving In Extreme Conditions

Dr. M April 13, 2009 anoxic brine Gulf of Mexico Metabolism methane Microbe microbial National Science Foundation noxious oil and gas origins of life primordial seep Texas A&M University University of Georgia

…takes more than a Red Bull. You got to have the right metabolic pathways. NSF highlights the work of Samantha Joye of the University of…

Adaptations Conservation & Environment Environmental Sciences Geology New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Ocean Acidification, Not Good For Living

Dr. M April 13, 2009 acid acidity atmosphere carbon cycle carbon dioxide carbonate Crab deep sea form hydrolysis mussel ocean acidification pH plankton shells Southern Ocean Volcano

Two recent papers in Nature GeoScience demonstrate the real effects of ocean acidification. For those not in know, there is an ongoing decrease in the…

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MBARI YouTube Channel

Dr. M February 27, 2009 Seamount video

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently unleashed their new YouTube Channel. Of course it features Macropinna but you can also see Humboldt squid. A…

Expeditions Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Underwater Volcanoes in Antarctica

Kevin Zelnio February 21, 2009 Antarctica Expedition Volcano

A recent expedition to the antarctic undersea volcanoes has recently returned. They are sharing some of their highlights in a video. The cruise looked both…

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Seamount Life Is Unique Just Not In the Way We Thought

Dr. M February 19, 2009 conservation Coral Invertebrate Open Access plos one Seamount sponge

About a month ago, I published my first paper at PLoS One. I believed an open access journal was the most appropriate place for the…

Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

New Paper Teaser

Kevin Zelnio February 19, 2009 Alvinocarididae Alvinocaris Crustacea Hydrothermal Vent Shrimp Wordle

I just sent in the proofs to a paper that will come out in the next issue of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of…

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Deep Impacts from Fishing off Baja California

Peter Etnoyer February 12, 2009 Baja DeepSee fishing Scripps submersible

Scripps Insitute of Oceanography (SIO) post-doc Brad Erisman and colleagues Exequiel Ezcurra and Octavio Aburto-Oropeza used the three person DeepSee submersible to explore nearshore and…

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