It has been a long year waiting to announce this. Last year Dr. Adrian Glover, long time DSN fan from the Natural History Museum in…
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NE Pacific Expedition Day 5
A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. Our first day in the…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 5NE Pacific Expedition Day 3&4
A report from Dr. M while he is at sea in the northeast Pacific. You can follow the expedition here. photo credit: zlatkarp I began…
View More NE Pacific Expedition Day 3&4New Hydrothermal Vent Sanctuary
President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas including Mexico’s first deep sea marine protected area, the Guaymas Basin and Eastern…
View More New Hydrothermal Vent SanctuaryShrimp Tails: Describing a New Species
Dr. M was kind enough to mention and congratulate me on my first publication several months back. I just had two more papers published in…
View More Shrimp Tails: Describing a New SpeciesThe Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer led by James V. Gardner, a marine geologist at the University of New Hampshire, discovered…
View More The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature2009 Pacific Northwest Expedition
Myself and Chris Mah (from Echinoblog) will particpating in Leg 5 of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s expedition ot the northern Pacific. Leg 5…
View More 2009 Pacific Northwest ExpeditionNew 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 sharksCoral and Brittle Stars, Together Forever
I mean it, FOREVER! No paper out yet but the abstract has sufficiently enticed me. Mosher and Watling report that the species Phiocreas oedipus, an…
View More Coral and Brittle Stars, Together ForeverTubeworms with Really Big…
…ranges. Yesterday, at Evolution 2009 I also attended the talk of Maria Miglietta from KZ’s old stomping grounds. Maria discussed work on species geographic boundaries…
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