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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I Like Big Boats and I Cannot Lie
The latest Boat U.S. Magazine identifies the top 25 four year schools with “the top marine programs and extracurricular boating activities.” It went about picking…
View More I Like Big Boats and I Cannot LieOnce upon a time, the ocean was blue
Over the years, I’ve marveled at the ways and means of different scientists. Some have a career that’s focused like a laser beam, boring through…
View More Once upon a time, the ocean was blueGiant Isopods and Shark Rays in Cincinnati?
Finding my self in Cincinnati for a conference, I couldn’t help myself from heading across the river into Kentucky to the Newport Aquarium. This aquarium…
View More Giant Isopods and Shark Rays in Cincinnati?Finding Coral sails into the sunset
PhD student Michael Reuscher has been guest posting from the RV Cape Flattery aboard the Finding Coral Expedition, sponsored by the Living Ocean Society in…
View More Finding Coral sails into the sunsetBallard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Inner Space Commander-in-Chief Dr. Robert D. Ballard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation at their annual dinner on June 9th…
View More Ballard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award5 Questions With Me
The Duke Research site this month features my answers to five questions about ocean biodiversity, body size variation, blue whales, municipal water supplies, giant squids,…
View More 5 Questions With MeHow Did You Get Here?
A common theme in the talks I am attending is how and why species exist/coexist in certain localities. Two more talks today hit on this…
View More How Did You Get Here?All The Better To Eat You With My Dear!
The evolution of parrotfish saw two morphological innovations, pharyngeal jaw modification and the novel intramandibular joint. The pharyngeal jaw, a characteristic of all parrotfish, is…
View More All The Better To Eat You With My Dear!Tubeworms 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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